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Hurricane Irma (2017)
Irma in the federal records: the 420 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 Irma (2017) passed within 75 miles of 420 cities on this site in 4 states, 171 of them while it was at hurricane strength. Its peak wind on the NHC track was 178 mph (Category 5); the track runs from August 30, 2017 to September 13, 2017. It is on this list for the 9th most flood insurance claims of any tropical system on record. The most cities within 75 miles were in Florida (251), Georgia (95), Puerto Rico (59) and Alabama (15).
- Cities within 75 mi
- 420
- Peak wind
- 178 mph
- NFIP claims
- 33,340
- Deaths in NWS reports
- 80
171 at hurricane strength
Category 5
$1.11 billion
451 reports
The full track, landfalls and every city it passed →
Where it came closest
| City | Closest | Wind on the track | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loiza, PR | 41 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| Luquillo, PR | 41 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| Fajardo, PR | 42 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| Rio Grande, PR | 43 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| Carolina, PR | 46 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| Canovanas, PR | 46 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| Ceiba, PR | 46 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| Catano, PR | 47 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| San Juan, PR | 47 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| Toa Baja, PR | 49 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| Trujillo Alto, PR | 49 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
| Vieques, PR | 49 mi | Category 5 (173 mph) | September 6, 2017 |
The 12 cities with the strongest wind on the NHC best track at its closest point, of 420 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 33,340 claims under its name and were paid $1.11 billion for buildings and contents, in the dollars of the time; that is the 9th most of the 104 tropical systems with claims under their name. Florida had 28,756 of them (86%), then South Carolina with 2,363 and Georgia with 2,099. Among the cities on this site, the most claims came from Jacksonville, FL: 1,873, paid $139.9 million. Claims data as of September 8, 2026. FEMA issued 6 major disaster declarations and 7 emergency declarations naming it, covering 669 designated areas in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico, South Carolina and Virgin Islands; the first came on September 5, 2017.
| City | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville, FL | 1,873 | $139.9 million |
| Naples, FL | 1,832 | $38.9 million |
| Marathon, FL | 1,792 | $81.7 million |
| Miami, FL | 1,652 | $49.5 million |
| Summerland Key, FL | 1,516 | $33.2 million |
| St Augustine, FL | 1,305 | $41.9 million |
| Key West, FL | 1,097 | $18.6 million |
| Charleston, SC | 1,084 | $32.9 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 451 reports whose account names it, in 10 states: 230 tropical storm, 45 flash flood, 27 tornado, 26 high wind and 24 hurricane. They record 80 deaths and 49 injuries, and $5.40 billion in estimated property and crop damage.
September 9, 2017, Metro Broward County, Florida: tropical storm, 21 killed
NWS: “Hurricane Irma produced maximum sustained winds generally between 50 and 70 mph, with possible isolated spots of sustained wind to hurricane force. Gusts of 80 to 100 mph were common across most of metro Broward County.”
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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