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Hurricane Ian (2022)
Ian in the federal records: the 336 cities near its track, flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and NWS reports.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Ian (2022) passed within 75 miles of 336 cities on this site in 3 states, 127 of them while it was at hurricane strength. Its peak wind on the NHC track was 161 mph (Category 5); the track runs from September 22, 2022 to October 1, 2022. It is on this list for the 7th most flood insurance claims of any tropical system on record. The most cities within 75 miles were in Florida (157), South Carolina (94) and North Carolina (85).
- Cities within 75 mi
- 336
- Peak wind
- 161 mph
- NFIP claims
- 48,824
- Deaths in NWS reports
- 146
127 at hurricane strength
Category 5
$4.91 billion
310 reports
The full track, landfalls and every city it passed →
Where it came closest
| City | Closest | Wind on the track | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Island, FL | 58 mi | Category 5 (159 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| Sanibel, FL | 19 mi | Category 4 (151 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| Placida, FL | 12 mi | Category 4 (150 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| St James City, FL | 13 mi | Category 4 (150 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| Englewood, FL | 19 mi | Category 4 (150 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| Venice, FL | 29 mi | Category 4 (150 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| Nokomis, FL | 34 mi | Category 4 (150 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| Osprey, FL | 38 mi | Category 4 (150 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| Longboat Key, FL | 55 mi | Category 4 (150 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| Bokeelia, FL | 4 mi | Category 4 (148 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| Rotonda West, FL | 14 mi | Category 4 (148 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
| Fort Myers Beach, FL | 23 mi | Category 4 (147 mph) | September 28, 2022 |
The 12 cities with the strongest wind on the NHC best track at its closest point, of 336 within 75 miles. Wind on the track is not the wind felt in the city.
Flood insurance claims and federal declarations
National Flood Insurance Program policyholders filed 48,824 claims under its name and were paid $4.91 billion for buildings and contents, in the dollars of the time; that is the 7th most of the 104 tropical systems with claims under their name. Florida had 47,556 of them (97%), then South Carolina with 1,073 and North Carolina with 171. Among the cities on this site, the most claims came from Fort Myers, FL: 9,173, paid $1.06 billion. Claims data as of September 8, 2026. FEMA issued 3 major disaster declarations and 3 emergency declarations naming it, covering 337 designated areas in Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina; the first came on September 24, 2022.
| City | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Myers, FL | 9,173 | $1.06 billion |
| Naples, FL | 6,348 | $851.6 million |
| Cape Coral, FL | 6,166 | $472.3 million |
| Sanibel, FL | 4,319 | $636.0 million |
| Fort Myers Beach, FL | 2,611 | $575.4 million |
| Bonita Springs, FL | 2,216 | $281.7 million |
| North Fort Myers, FL | 2,025 | $232.7 million |
| St James City, FL | 1,053 | $59.0 million |
FEMA, OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3 (claims whose flood event carries the storm's name, ZIP codes summed by city) and Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
What the National Weather Service recorded
The National Weather Service logged 310 reports whose account names it, in 9 states: 145 tropical storm, 29 marine tropical storm, 22 coastal flood, 20 flash flood and 18 strong wind. They record 146 deaths and 11 injuries, and $16.45 billion in estimated property and crop damage.
September 28, 2022, Coastal Lee, Florida: hurricane, 60 killed, $7.00 billion damage
NWS: “The highest wind reported in Lee County from Hurricane Ian was a gust to 140 mph at a weatherSTEM station at the Cape Coral yacht club at 4:20 PM EST on September 28. Catastrophic damage was caused by the storm surge that most severely affected coastal areas.”
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, reports dated within the storm's track whose account names it. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses; some reports are unverified.
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