Hurricanes near Covington, LA

Hurricanes

4 major (Category 3+)

Tropical storms

within 60 miles since 1950

Close calls

hurricanes within 30 miles

Since 1950, 6 hurricanes and 14 tropical storms have passed within 60 miles of Covington. That's a hurricane about once every 13 years. The most recent hurricane was Ida in 2021. The strongest was Camille in 1969, with winds near 173 mph as it went by. Most came in August.

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Every storm since 1950

Year	Storm	Strength nearby	Winds, mph	Closest, mi
2024	Francine Sep	Tropical storm	69	11
2021	Ida Aug	Category 3	127	38
2021	Claudette Jun	Tropical storm	46	6
2020	Zeta Oct	Category 2	109	23
2020	Cristobal Jun	Tropical storm	52	18
2005	Katrina Aug	Category 3	127	31
2005	Cindy Jul	Tropical storm	58	41
2003	Bill Jul	Tropical storm	58	8
2002	Isidore Sep	Tropical storm	63	16
2001	Allison Jun	Tropical storm	46	13
1988	Florence Sep	Tropical storm	69	17
1988	Beryl Aug	Tropical storm	52	13
1985	Elena Sep	Category 3	115	23
1979	Bob Jul	Tropical storm	63	15
1969	Camille Aug	Category 5	173	34
1964	Hilda Oct	Category 1	75	11
1957	Esther Sep	Tropical storm	58	35
1956	Unnamed Jun	Tropical storm	52	29
1955	Brenda Aug	Tropical storm	63	8
1955	Unnamed Aug	Tropical storm	52	23

By decade

Decade	Hurricanes	Tropical storms
1950s	0	4
1960s	2	0
1970s	0	1
1980s	1	2
1990s	0	0
2000s	1	4
2010s	0	0
2020s	2	3

From the National Hurricane Center's best-track archive (HURDAT2), Atlantic and eastern Pacific, through 2025. A storm counts when its center came within 60 miles of the middle of Covington at tropical-storm strength or more. "Winds" is the strongest it was while that close, over open water; inland it is usually less.

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