NHC AL252005 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Wilma (2005)
October 15, 2005 – October 26, 2005
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Wilma peaked at Category 5 with 184 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 97 US cities, 97 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Wilma in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Wilma for 11 days, from October 15, 2005 to October 26, 2005. Its first position, at 17.6°N 78.5°W, records it as a tropical depression; its last, at 45.5°N 52.0°W, as an extratropical cyclone. It reached tropical-storm strength on October 17, hurricane strength on October 18 and major-hurricane strength on October 19. Its peak was 184 mph (160 knots), Category 5, on October 19, and its lowest central pressure was 882 millibars on October 19. It spent about 7 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on October 24 at 121 mph (Category 3), 3 miles from Marco Island, FL. It has 2 more landfalls in the record farther from the cities here. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 97 US cities, all in Florida. The strongest pass was 124 mph (Category 3) 73 miles from Key West, FL; the centre came closest to Jupiter, FL, 1 mile away. All of them had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 93 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 37% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 6th of the 9 storms of 2005 here.
- Peak strength
- Category 5
- Cities within 75 mi
- 97
- At hurricane strength
- 97
- States
- 1
184 mph
when closest
Cities Wilma passed near, strongest first
Florida (97)
- Key WestCategory 3 · 73 mi
- Marco IslandCategory 3 · 3 mi
- SanibelCategory 3 · 44 mi
- St James CityCategory 3 · 50 mi
- BokeeliaCategory 3 · 59 mi
- PlacidaCategory 3 · 75 mi
- Fort Myers BeachCategory 3 · 40 mi
- Cape CoralCategory 3 · 53 mi
- NaplesCategory 3 · 18 mi
- Bonita SpringsCategory 3 · 30 mi
- EsteroCategory 3 · 35 mi
- Fort MyersCategory 3 · 45 mi
- North Fort MyersCategory 3 · 55 mi
- Punta GordaCategory 3 · 73 mi
- GrantCategory 3 · 68 mi
- MalabarCategory 3 · 72 mi
- Melbourne BeachCategory 3 · 73 mi
- Jensen BeachCategory 3 · 21 mi
- Fort PierceCategory 3 · 37 mi
- Lehigh AcresCategory 3 · 42 mi
- Vero BeachCategory 3 · 50 mi
- SebastianCategory 3 · 59 mi
- FellsmereCategory 3 · 62 mi
- Barefoot BayCategory 3 · 65 mi
- JupiterCategory 3 · overhead
- TequestaCategory 3 · 2 mi
- Palm Beach GardensCategory 3 · 4 mi
- North Palm BeachCategory 3 · 6 mi
- Hobe SoundCategory 3 · 9 mi
- Riviera BeachCategory 3 · 9 mi
- Palm BeachCategory 3 · 14 mi
- StuartCategory 3 · 17 mi
- Palm CityCategory 3 · 20 mi
- Port St LucieCategory 3 · 29 mi
- AlvaCategory 3 · 48 mi
- LoxahatcheeCategory 3 · 1 mi
- Royal Palm BeachCategory 3 · 6 mi
- WellingtonCategory 3 · 9 mi
- West Palm BeachCategory 3 · 12 mi
- GreenacresCategory 3 · 15 mi
- Lake WorthCategory 3 · 15 mi
- Palm SpringsCategory 3 · 17 mi
- AtlantisCategory 3 · 19 mi
- Boynton BeachCategory 3 · 20 mi
- IndiantownCategory 3 · 22 mi
- ImmokaleeCategory 3 · 23 mi
- Delray BeachCategory 3 · 24 mi
- Boca RatonCategory 3 · 27 mi
- OkeechobeeCategory 3 · 49 mi
- Belle GladeCategory 3 · 11 mi
- South BayCategory 3 · 12 mi
- PahokeeCategory 3 · 17 mi
- Coral SpringsCategory 3 · 27 mi
- Coconut CreekCategory 3 · 30 mi
- TamaracCategory 3 · 30 mi
- MargateCategory 3 · 30 mi
- Deerfield BeachCategory 3 · 31 mi
- SunriseCategory 3 · 32 mi
- North LauderdaleCategory 3 · 32 mi
- LauderhillCategory 3 · 33 mi
and 37 more
Other storms of the 2005 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.