Strongest Eastern and Central Pacific Storms of 2025

What this chart shows
The 20 named tropical cyclones of 2025 in the eastern North Pacific and central North Pacific, ranked by peak maximum sustained wind in knots. Eighteen of them are eastern Pacific storms and two, Iona and Keli, are central Pacific storms.

How the data is collected
The National Hurricane Center publishes a separate HURDAT2 file for the Northeast and North Central Pacific, and the file dated February 2026 covers 1949 to 2025. For each 2025 storm the chart takes the highest wind value in its best track while it held tropical or subtropical status, so the low-pressure stages before formation and after dissipation are ignored.

Background
NHC's report on Kiko describes it as a category 4 hurricane over the western part of the eastern Pacific and the central Pacific that later threatened the Hawaiian Islands but passed north of them with little impact. Erick is described as a rapidly strengthening category 4 hurricane that made landfall as a category 3 hurricane in the far west of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, and the report bases its 120-knot peak on subjective Dvorak satellite classifications together with several objective intensity estimates.

Limits
The report on Kiko is an abbreviated one, which NHC notes was issued because there were no coastal watches or warnings and no direct deaths linked to the storm. NHC's 2025 report list for the eastern Pacific covers the 18 eastern Pacific storms and does not include Iona or Keli. A storm that started in the eastern Pacific and crossed into the central Pacific, as Kiko did, keeps its eastern Pacific identifier.