Hurricane Open Dataset

Name: StormDPS Historical Hurricane Database
Creator: StormDPS
Published: 2026-05-12
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Historical Destructive Power Scores and full intensity, size, and damage metadata for major tropical cyclones — from Bhola (1970) through the current Atlantic season. Free to download, free to redistribute, CC BY 4.0.

Downloads

CSV Historical Hurricane Database ~200 storms · 14 columns · < 5 KB Download CSV

JSON Historical Hurricane Database ~200 storms · structured array · < 10 KB Download JSON

What's in the file

Each row is one named tropical cyclone. The columns are intentionally compact and human-readable; this is a curated reference dataset, not a full track archive (use IBTrACS for full 6-hourly tracks).

Column	Description	Example
`basin`	Originating ocean basin	Atlantic, West Pacific, North Indian, …
`name`	Storm name as assigned by the WMO regional center	Katrina, Haiyan, Mangkhut
`year`	Year of peak intensity	2005
`damage_billions`	Damage in inflation-adjusted USD (B)	125.0
`peak_wind_mph`	Peak 1-min sustained wind	175
`central_pressure_mb`	Minimum central pressure	902
`rmw_nm`	Radius of maximum winds at peak	14
`r34_nm`	Tropical-storm-force wind radius (R34)	60
`duration_days`	Days from genesis to dissipation	4.5
`duration_factor`	DPS duration component (0–1.5)	1.2
`rapid_intensification_24h_mph`	Peak 24-hour intensification	50
`landfalls`	Comma-separated landfall regions	Louisiana, Mississippi
`notes`	Free-text storm description	"Unprecedented storm surge in New Orleans, …"
`validation_target`	Whether this storm is in the DPS calibration set	True

How to cite

If you use this dataset in academic, journalistic, or commercial work, please cite it using the permanent Zenodo DOI:

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20149123

APA

Reaves, R. (2026). StormDPS Historical Hurricane Database (Version 1.0.0) [Data set].
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20149123

BibTeX

@dataset{reaves_2026_stormdps,
  author    = {Reaves, Ryan},
  title     = {StormDPS Historical Hurricane Database},
  year      = 2026,
  month     = may,
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.20149123},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20149123}
}

Quick start (Python)

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("https://stormdps.com/historical_storms_db.csv")
print(df.sort_values("damage_billions", ascending=False).head(10))

Live API access

For real-time DPS values on active and historic storms, the StormDPS REST API exposes:

GET /api/v1/storms/active — currently active tropical cyclones
GET /api/v1/storms/{id}/dps — canonical DPS bundle for one storm
GET /api/v1/storms/catalog/global — global IBTrACS catalog (filterable by year)

Public, free, no key required. Rate-limited per IP. See the methodology page for component definitions and the live tracker for interactive exploration.

License: CC BY 4.0 You may share, adapt, and redistribute this dataset — including for commercial purposes — provided you cite StormDPS as the source. The underlying observational records (NHC, JTWC, IBTrACS) are in the public domain.