NHC AL152017 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Maria (2017)
September 16, 2017 – October 2, 2017
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Maria peaked at Category 5 with 173 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 86 US cities, 86 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Maria in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Maria for 16 days, from September 16, 2017 to October 2, 2017. Its first position, at 12.2°N 49.7°W, records it as a tropical depression; its last, at 48.0°N 17.0°W, as an extratropical cyclone. It reached tropical-storm strength on September 16, hurricane strength on September 17 and major-hurricane strength on September 18. Its peak was 173 mph (150 knots), Category 5, on September 20, and its lowest central pressure was 908 millibars on September 20. It spent about 10 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 20 at 155 mph (Category 4), 1 mile from Maunabo, PR. It has one more landfall in the record farther from the cities here. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 86 US cities, all in Puerto Rico, between September 20 and September 20. The strongest pass was 158 mph (Category 5) 21 miles from Vieques, PR; the centre came closest to Arecibo, PR, less than a mile away. All of them had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 82 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 32% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 6th of the 6 storms of 2017 here.
- Peak strength
- Category 5
- Cities within 75 mi
- 86
- At hurricane strength
- 86
- States
- 1
173 mph
when closest
Cities Maria passed near, strongest first
Puerto Rico (86)
- ViequesCategory 5 · 21 mi
- Punta SantiagoCategory 4 · 14 mi
- NaguaboCategory 4 · 18 mi
- CeibaCategory 4 · 23 mi
- FajardoCategory 4 · 27 mi
- MaunaboCategory 4 · overhead
- HumacaoCategory 4 · 11 mi
- YabucoaCategory 4 · 4 mi
- LuquilloCategory 4 · 27 mi
- Las PiedrasCategory 4 · 12 mi
- PatillasCategory 4 · 3 mi
- ArroyoCategory 4 · 7 mi
- San LorenzoCategory 4 · 6 mi
- JuncosCategory 4 · 12 mi
- Rio GrandeCategory 4 · 24 mi
- GuayamaCategory 4 · 10 mi
- CanovanasCategory 4 · 21 mi
- GuraboCategory 4 · 12 mi
- AguirreCategory 4 · 14 mi
- LoizaCategory 4 · 25 mi
- CaguasCategory 4 · 8 mi
- CayeyCategory 4 · 3 mi
- SalinasCategory 4 · 14 mi
- Trujillo AltoCategory 4 · 16 mi
- CarolinaCategory 4 · 20 mi
- CidraCategory 4 · overhead
- Aguas BuenasCategory 4 · 5 mi
- GuaynaboCategory 4 · 13 mi
- San JuanCategory 4 · 17 mi
- ComerioCategory 4 · overhead
- AibonitoCategory 4 · 6 mi
- BayamonCategory 4 · 11 mi
- CatanoCategory 4 · 16 mi
- Santa IsabelCategory 4 · 19 mi
- BarranquitasCategory 4 · 3 mi
- NaranjitoCategory 4 · 4 mi
- Toa AltaCategory 4 · 9 mi
- CoamoCategory 4 · 12 mi
- Toa BajaCategory 3 · 14 mi
- CorozalCategory 3 · 3 mi
- DoradoCategory 3 · 13 mi
- Juana DiazCategory 3 · 19 mi
- MorovisCategory 3 · overhead
- OrocovisCategory 3 · 6 mi
- Vega AltaCategory 3 · 9 mi
- VillalbaCategory 3 · 13 mi
- MerceditaCategory 3 · 23 mi
- Vega BajaCategory 3 · 9 mi
- Coto LaurelCategory 3 · 19 mi
- PonceCategory 3 · 24 mi
- CialesCategory 3 · 3 mi
- ManatiCategory 3 · 5 mi
- JayuyaCategory 3 · 11 mi
- FloridaCategory 3 · 1 mi
- PenuelasCategory 3 · 25 mi
- Sabana HoyosCategory 3 · overhead
- BarcelonetaCategory 3 · 5 mi
- GuayanillaCategory 3 · 28 mi
- GarrochalesCategory 3 · 3 mi
- UtuadoCategory 3 · 11 mi
and 26 more
Other storms of the 2017 season
About this record
The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.