Storm days
Hurricanes near Wilmington, 1851 to 2025
Every storm that became a hurricane and came within 150 miles of Wilmington.
- Medium
- 156 NOAA storm tracks, 1851 to 2025, and wind modeled from them
- Length
- 62 s
- Collection
- Storm days, The Carolina coast
- Posted
- Nov 10, 2026
The story
156 storms, one after another, each drawn as a moving swirl of wind. Each storm's track stays behind, colored by its strength, so 170 years of storms build up as the years go by.
The ones that hit hardest slow down as they reach us: Hazel, Helene, Donna, Diana, Bertha, Fran, Bonnie, Floyd, Arthur, Florence, Dorian and three unnamed storms from the 1800s. 62 of the 156 were still hurricanes when they got here.
What you're seeing
- Swirls are a model of the wind from each storm's recorded top speed.
- Wind-field size was measured from 2004 on and is estimated before that.
Data
Have an interesting day.