Climate & Weather Statistics

The five largest wildfires alone burned 672,187 acres, 13.1 per cent of all the land burned in the United States in 2025...

Oklahoma's 2,530 wildfires averaged 120.2 acres, slightly more than Oregon's 118.5, even though almost all of Oklahoma's...

California, with the most wildfires of any state, had a human-caused share of 85.9 per cent, while Oregon, with 2,734 fi...

Alaska burned more land than California and Arizona combined, although it reported only 465 wildfires against California...

Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia were all in the top five by number of wildfires, yet together they reported only 48...

The busiest stretch ran from March to July, when monthly totals stayed above 3,700. Reports fell sharply after August, a...

Five states recorded measured gusts of 100 mph or more. At the other end, the strongest measured gust in Vermont was 58...

Alabama recorded more wind reports than Texas, a state about five times its area. Wind reports outnumbered severe hail r...

Texas's 6.00-inch stone was 1.50 inches larger than the next biggest anywhere in the country. 11 states recorded hail of...

Texas alone accounted for 16.3 per cent of the country's severe hail reports, 1,302 of 7,982, more than twice as many as...

Weak tornadoes dominate: EF0 and EF1 together made up 70.0 per cent of the total. Only 40 tornadoes, 34 EF3, 5 EF4 and 1...

Kentucky's 19 deaths came almost entirely from one tornado, the May 16 EF4 that killed 18. Tornadoes also injured 260 pe...

April's 313 tornadoes were more than the six months from July to December combined, which recorded 250. June still had 2...

Texas's average of 129.9 a year is 49.0 more than second-placed Kansas. Illinois, fourth at 64.5, recorded 126 in 2025....

Three states passed 100 tornadoes in 2025: Illinois, Texas and Oklahoma. Illinois's 126 was almost twice its 30-year ave...

Erin spent the most time as a hurricane in 2025, 7.25 days, just ahead of the eastern Pacific's Kiko on 7. Melissa (5.75...

Erin lasted longest at 11.5 days as a tropical storm or stronger, ahead of Melissa on 10.25 days and Gabrielle on 8. Hum...

Kiko is the strongest Pacific storm of 2025 in this list on 125 knots, ahead of Erick on 120 and the central Pacific's I...

Melissa's 892 mb is 21 millibars lower than the next storm, Erin on 913, and Humberto follows on 918. Gabrielle, at 944...

Melissa is the strongest storm of the 2025 Atlantic season on 165 knots, 25 knots clear of Erin and Humberto, which tie...

Hurricane Allen (1980) and Hurricane Melissa (2025) share the Atlantic record in NOAA's HURDAT2 best-track database, bot...

Hurricane Patricia, which struck the eastern Pacific in 2015, set the global record with peak sustained winds of 345 km/...

Sukayu Onsen, a hot-spring resort high in Japan's Hakkoda Mountains, is the snowiest inhabited place on Earth, buried un...

Yuma, Arizona, leads the world with about 4,015 hours of sunshine a year, meaning the sun shines during more than 90% of...