Does Tampa Get A Lot Of Hurricanes?

Actually the answer is no Tampa does not get a lot of hurricanes. The reason is fairly straight forward. Tampa is on the western or gulf coast of Florida. Between the eastern coast of Florida and Tampa is one of the highest parts of the state. That helps a little bit.

Tampa FL

Let's face it, the Tampa Bay area and that means Tampa FL is fairly vulnerable. The amount of water in shallow Tampa Bay also poses quite a threat with life threatening storm surge depending on the direction which a hurricane approaches from. Even Downtown Tampa is at risk. Especially if a major storm like hurricane Andrew, hurricane Katrina or even hurricane Charley hit the city directly.

The Homes Here

There are homes in this city and area over 100 years old, and they are still standing even through the threat of many a major storm. That being said, before you purchase here check on homeowners insurance rates as they can be fairly high because of the threat of storm surge flooding.

Tampa Bay

In the last 100 years very few hurricanes have actually direct hit Tampa and the last major hurricane to directly hit us was in the very early 1900's. While I say that we did have hurricane force winds in October 2025 courtesy of hurricane Milton. Tropical storm force winds are not that uncommon but those winds did very little damage. Most homes, especially the newer ones will not have much trouble till they see sustained winds of over 100 mph.

The Season For Hurricanes

The Atlantic Hurricane Season often has an affect on South Florida. It seems to be far more dangerous to live in the Florida Keys or even southwest Florida historically than Tampa Bay. Hopefully we will avoid a direct hit for a long time to come. I love this area and never hear the national hurricane center say, a major storm just struck Tampa Bay.