The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is the first time in 10 years that a hurricane has not made landfall in the United States through the end of September. Only two months, or about 25%, remain in this hurricane season but AccuWeather experts warn people and businesses not to let their guard down.
"Every hurricane season is different. This hurricane season so far is quite unique, with several close calls for the United States," AccuWeather® Lead Hurricane Expert Alex DaSilva said. "Erin was a major hurricane that stayed 200 miles off the coast of North Carolina in August. The Southeast was spared from major flooding from Hurricane Imelda in September, thanks in part to the rare Fujiwhara Effect. Hurricane Humberto passed within 500 miles of Imelda and helped to pull the smaller storm away from the U.S. coast and out to sea."
Imelda and Erin both brought some impacts to the United States, but neither storm made landfall.
The only named storm to make landfall in the U.S. so far this year was Tropical Storm Chantal. Torrential rainfall triggered flash flooding in North Carolina over the Independence Day holiday weekend. AccuWeather experts estimate the flooding damage, tourism losses and total damage and economic loss from Tropical Storm Chantal at $4 billion to $6 billion.
AccuWeather hurricane experts say the last time the United States went through September without a hurricane landfall was in 2015.
The 2013, 2010, 2009, 2006, 2002, 2001 and 2000 Atlantic hurricane seasons also passed without a single U.S. hurricane landfall through September.
Only in 2002 did a hurricane-Lili-strike the United States for the remainder of the hurricane season; all seven other years did not have a U.S. landfalling hurricane for the entire season.
"There have been nine named storms to date. AccuWeather continues to forecast 13 to 16 named storms for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. The lower end of the range is most likely at this time," DaSilva said. "AccuWeather cannot rule out the possibility of 15 or 16 named storms this season due to sea surface temperatures and ocean heat content that is above the historical average in the Atlantic basin. Disruptive wind shear is also expected to lessen. AccuWeather hurricane experts are constantly refining and integrating new data into our predictions and lowered the seasonal forecast recently, compared to other known sources."
"Climatologically speaking, around 75 percent of the hurricane season is past, leaving 25 percent of the hurricane season ahead of us. On Oct. 15, 12-percent remains, on average. By the start of November, only 3% of the hurricane season is left," DeSilva added.