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October hurricane history: every day, 1842 to 2026
1,928 storms on record were active in October between 1842 and 2025. 1,533 formed and 821 came ashore during the month. The date with the most storms on record is October 1, with 472. The strongest storm active in October was Hurricane Patricia (2015), with a peak 1-minute sustained wind of 185 kt (213 mph), recorded by NHC.
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.
- October 1472 storms · 42 ashore
- October 2454 storms · 51 ashore
- October 3449 storms · 55 ashore
- October 4443 storms · 52 ashore
- October 5436 storms · 49 ashore
- October 6431 storms · 36 ashore
- October 7425 storms · 41 ashore
- October 8410 storms · 39 ashore
- October 9401 storms · 31 ashore
- October 10407 storms · 38 ashore
- October 11407 storms · 43 ashore
- October 12390 storms · 33 ashore
- October 13401 storms · 34 ashore
- October 14415 storms · 39 ashore
- October 15421 storms · 42 ashore
- October 16395 storms · 33 ashore
- October 17372 storms · 24 ashore
- October 18359 storms · 37 ashore
- October 19356 storms · 33 ashore
- October 20348 storms · 32 ashore
- October 21351 storms · 37 ashore
- October 22333 storms · 16 ashore
- October 23315 storms · 36 ashore
- October 24298 storms · 23 ashore
- October 25304 storms · 38 ashore
- October 26303 storms · 27 ashore
- October 27288 storms · 21 ashore
- October 28293 storms · 29 ashore
- October 29282 storms · 32 ashore
- October 30258 storms · 20 ashore
- October 31270 storms · 30 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.