Overview
- The 2025 Atlantic season produced 13 named storms, five hurricanes and four major hurricanes, with ACE measured at 133.
- Three storms reached Category 5 strength—Erin and Humberto at 160 mph and Melissa at 185 mph—with Melissa the strongest known landfall for Jamaica in decades.
- NOAA and partner scientists confirmed a record 252 mph dropsonde wind in Melissa, the strongest hurricane wind measurement on record.
- The U.S. recorded no hurricane landfalls, and the only U.S. landfall was Tropical Storm Chantal near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
- Experts Bryan Norcross and Phil Klotzbach say the Atlantic is expected to stay quiet through the Nov. 30 season end, following severe surf impacts like Outer Banks home collapses earlier in the year.