What Businesses Can Do to Prepare for Hurricane Season 2025 and Understand Their Business Interruption Coverage
Researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) expect the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season will likely have above-normal activity, with seventeen named storms, according to a recently published report.
The prediction by CSU’s Department of Atmospheric Science, a well-respected hurricane research center, follows eighteen named storms in 2024. The twenty-year average between 1991 and 2020 was 14.4 per year.
The latest forecast from The Weather Company and Atmospheric G2 expects fewer hurricanes, but that does not mean the threat to the US East Coast and Gulf Coast will be lower. Here’s the latest outlook.
- Nine storms will reach hurricane strength, versus the average of seven.
- Four will become major hurricanes (categories 3, 4, or 5), versus the average of three.
- A 51 percent chance of a major hurricane making landfall in the continental US this season.
“Sea surface temperatures across the eastern and central Atlantic are generally warmer than normal, but not as warm as they were last year at this time,” the report said.
Higher sea temperatures, combined with La Niña or neutral El Niño-Southern Oscillation conditions, create an environment more conducive to hurricane formations, CSU said.
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