Hurricanes near Stock Island, FL

Hurricanes

4 major (Category 3+)

Tropical storms

within 60 miles since 1950

Close calls

hurricanes within 30 miles

Since 1950, 11 hurricanes and 12 tropical storms have passed within 60 miles of Stock Island. That's a hurricane about once every 7 years. The most recent hurricane was Irma in 2017. The strongest was Donna in 1960, with winds near 144 mph as it went by. Most came in September.

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Every storm since 1950

Year	Storm	Strength nearby	Winds, mph	Closest, mi
2021	Elsa Jul	Tropical storm	63	57
2020	Eta Nov	Tropical storm	63	30
2017	Irma Sep	Category 4	132	15
2012	Isaac Aug	Tropical storm	58	45
2008	Fay Aug	Tropical storm	63	5
2005	Rita Sep	Category 2	109	44
2005	Katrina Aug	Category 2	98	40
1999	Irene Oct	Category 1	81	5
1998	Georges Sep	Category 2	104	6
1994	Gordon Nov	Tropical storm	52	4
1990	Marco Oct	Tropical storm	52	32
1987	Floyd Oct	Category 1	75	1
1981	Dennis Aug	Tropical storm	40	28
1976	Dottie Aug	Tropical storm	40	23
1970	Greta Sep	Tropical storm	40	6
1969	Jenny Oct	Tropical storm	46	30
1966	Inez Oct	Category 2	98	3
1966	Unnamed Jun	Tropical storm	46	48
1965	Betsy Sep	Category 3	115	41
1964	Isbell Oct	Category 3	115	35
1960	Donna Sep	Category 4	144	52
1952	Unnamed Feb	Tropical storm	58	21
1950	Easy Sep	Category 1	86	47

By decade

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

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 Stock Island 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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