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January hurricane history: every day, 1842 to 2026
1,188 storms on record were active in January between 1848 and 2026. 1,040 formed and 361 came ashore during the month. The date with the most storms on record is January 11, with 306. The strongest storm active in January was Typhoon Hester (1952), with a peak 1-minute sustained wind of 160 kt (184 mph), recorded by JTWC.
Dates are calendar dates in UTC. Archive of September 29, 2026.
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Storms active on each date, and how many came ashore that day.
- January 1220 storms · 15 ashore
- January 2219 storms · 16 ashore
- January 3218 storms · 11 ashore
- January 4216 storms · 15 ashore
- January 5206 storms · 11 ashore
- January 6216 storms · 15 ashore
- January 7216 storms · 15 ashore
- January 8215 storms · 12 ashore
- January 9230 storms · 22 ashore
- January 10248 storms · 16 ashore
- January 11306 storms · 14 ashore
- January 12295 storms · 9 ashore
- January 13292 storms · 17 ashore
- January 14289 storms · 15 ashore
- January 15283 storms · 16 ashore
- January 16276 storms · 13 ashore
- January 17274 storms · 9 ashore
- January 18255 storms · 12 ashore
- January 19250 storms · 22 ashore
- January 20243 storms · 17 ashore
- January 21294 storms · 26 ashore
- January 22289 storms · 19 ashore
- January 23264 storms · 22 ashore
- January 24264 storms · 17 ashore
- January 25257 storms · 15 ashore
- January 26265 storms · 6 ashore
- January 27249 storms · 13 ashore
- January 28247 storms · 17 ashore
- January 29239 storms · 14 ashore
- January 30230 storms · 10 ashore
- January 31252 storms · 17 ashore
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.
- International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) v04r01, all basins (CSV), NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Retrieved 2026-09-26.
- HURDAT2 Atlantic hurricane database, 1851-2025 (released 2026-09-12), NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC). Retrieved 2026-09-26.
- HURDAT2 Northeast and North Central Pacific hurricane database, 1949-2025 (released 2026-09-14), NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC) and Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC). Retrieved 2026-09-26.