Hurricanes near Pembroke, NC

Hurricanes

1 major (Category 3+)

Tropical storms

within 60 miles since 1950

Close calls

hurricanes within 30 miles

Since 1950, 4 hurricanes and 16 tropical storms have passed within 60 miles of Pembroke. That's a hurricane about once every 19 years. The most recent hurricane was Isaias in 2020. The strongest was Hazel in 1954, with winds near 127 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
2025	Chantal Jul	Tropical storm	40	7
2022	Ian Oct	Tropical storm	69	13
2021	Elsa Jul	Tropical storm	52	32
2021	Claudette Jun	Tropical storm	46	20
2020	Isaias Aug	Category 1	86	53
2018	Florence Sep	Tropical storm	69	58
2016	Hermine Sep	Tropical storm	58	58
2015	Ana May	Tropical storm	40	36
2013	Andrea Jun	Tropical storm	46	5
2008	Hanna Sep	Tropical storm	69	43
2004	Charley Aug	Category 1	75	58
2004	Gaston Aug	Tropical storm	46	1
1996	Fran Sep	Category 2	104	41
1984	Diana Sep	Tropical storm	69	40
1972	Unnamed Jul	Tropical storm	40	27
1972	Agnes Jun	Tropical storm	46	22
1970	Alma May	Tropical storm	46	27
1955	Diane Aug	Tropical storm	69	52
1954	Hazel Oct	Category 3	127	40
1952	Unnamed Aug	Tropical storm	52	26

By decade

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

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 Pembroke 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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