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August hurricane history: every day, 1842 to 2026

2,289 storms on record were active in August between 1851 and 2026. 1,980 formed and 980 came ashore during the month. The date with the most storms on record is August 28, with 535. The strongest storm active in August was Typhoon Joan (1959), with a peak 1-minute sustained wind of 170 kt (196 mph), recorded by JTWC.

Dates are calendar dates in UTC. Archive of September 29, 2026.

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Every day in August

Storms active on each date, and how many came ashore that day.

Sources. Storm tracks and events from NOAA's best-track archives, exactly as the Hurricane Calendar app shows them. Dates are calendar dates in UTC. Each wind speed keeps the agency that recorded it and its averaging period; nothing is converted between agencies. A missing value is shown as not recorded, never as zero. Storms that may still have been active when the archive was updated are left out.