NHC AL142024 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Milton (2024)
October 4, 2024 – October 11, 2024
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Milton peaked at Category 5 with 178 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 177 US cities, 177 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Milton in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Milton for 7 days, from October 4, 2024 to October 11, 2024. Its first position, at 21.0°N 94.6°W, records it as a low; its last, at 29.3°N 65.9°W, as an extratropical cyclone. It reached tropical-storm strength on October 5, hurricane strength on October 6 and major-hurricane strength on October 7. Its peak was 178 mph (155 knots), Category 5, on October 7, and its lowest central pressure was 895 millibars on October 7. It spent about 4 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on October 10 at 115 mph (Category 3), 3 miles from Longboat Key, FL. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 177 US cities, all in Florida. The strongest pass was 122 mph (Category 3) 64 miles from St James City, FL; the centre came closest to Longboat Key, FL, 2 miles away. All of them had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 31 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 55% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 3rd of the 7 storms of 2024 here.
- Peak strength
- Category 5
- Cities within 75 mi
- 177
- At hurricane strength
- 177
- States
- 1
178 mph
when closest
Cities Milton passed near, strongest first
Florida (177)
- St James CityCategory 3 · 64 mi
- SanibelCategory 3 · 70 mi
- VeniceCategory 3 · 24 mi
- EnglewoodCategory 3 · 33 mi
- Rotonda WestCategory 3 · 39 mi
- PlacidaCategory 3 · 40 mi
- BokeeliaCategory 3 · 56 mi
- Cape CoralCategory 3 · 64 mi
- Fort MyersCategory 3 · 74 mi
- NokomisCategory 3 · 19 mi
- OspreyCategory 3 · 15 mi
- Longboat KeyCategory 3 · 2 mi
- Holmes BeachCategory 3 · 10 mi
- SarasotaCategory 3 · 8 mi
- St Pete BeachCategory 3 · 25 mi
- BradentonCategory 3 · 3 mi
- University ParkCategory 3 · 4 mi
- PalmettoCategory 3 · 8 mi
- South PasadenaCategory 3 · 25 mi
- SeminoleCategory 3 · 33 mi
- Indian ShoresCategory 3 · 37 mi
- EllentonCategory 3 · 5 mi
- St PetersburgCategory 3 · 26 mi
- Pinellas ParkCategory 3 · 30 mi
- North PortCategory 3 · 32 mi
- LargoCategory 3 · 35 mi
- Port CharlotteCategory 3 · 39 mi
- Lakewood RanchCategory 3 · 4 mi
- ClearwaterCategory 3 · 38 mi
- DunedinCategory 3 · 42 mi
- North Fort MyersCategory 3 · 64 mi
- ParrishCategory 2 · 4 mi
- Safety HarborCategory 2 · 39 mi
- Punta GordaCategory 2 · 46 mi
- Myakka CityCategory 2 · 12 mi
- RuskinCategory 2 · 13 mi
- OldsmarCategory 2 · 40 mi
- Palm HarborCategory 2 · 45 mi
- Tarpon SpringsCategory 2 · 45 mi
- Apollo BeachCategory 2 · 16 mi
- HolidayCategory 2 · 51 mi
- WimaumaCategory 2 · 9 mi
- Sun City CenterCategory 2 · 11 mi
- TrinityCategory 2 · 50 mi
- GibsontonCategory 2 · 19 mi
- TampaCategory 2 · 32 mi
- OdessaCategory 2 · 44 mi
- New Port RicheyCategory 2 · 53 mi
- Port RicheyCategory 2 · 56 mi
- AlvaCategory 2 · 72 mi
- ArcadiaCategory 2 · 35 mi
- HudsonCategory 2 · 58 mi
- BrandonCategory 2 · 21 mi
- Temple TerraceCategory 2 · 31 mi
- LutzCategory 2 · 38 mi
- LithiaCategory 2 · 9 mi
- ValricoCategory 2 · 18 mi
- SeffnerCategory 2 · 25 mi
- Land O LakesCategory 2 · 47 mi
- DoverCategory 2 · 22 mi
and 117 more
Other storms of the 2024 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.