Bulacan, Philippines: storm history

148 storms have passed within 50 km of Bulacan from 1884 to 2025. The map shows Philippines; search for a town in Bulacan to see storms near it.

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Years1842 to 2026
Ocean basin

Choosing a minimum category hides storms with no wind speed in the record. To see which storms have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

Storms near Bulacan

The record holds 148 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Bulacan, Philippines between 1884 and 2025. The busiest month is October, with 37 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 5 strength. 63 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 148storms within 50 km
  • 14major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 33at category 1 strength or more

A storm counts once, however many times it came close. The category is the storm's strongest point within 50 km, which can be weaker than its peak elsewhere.

How strong were the storms near Bulacan?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression2316%
Tropical storm2920%
Category 196%
Category 2107%
Category 396%
Category 443%
Category 51<1%
Unknown intensity6343%

The agency behind most of the intensity figures here is the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (western Pacific).

Bulacan storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 19 in 1970s.1880s1900s1920s1940s1960s1980s2000s2020s

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1884, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1880s2
1890s9
1900s13
1910s9
1920s8
1930s11
1940s7
1950s4
1960s17
1970s19
1980s13
1990s13
2000s10
2010s5
2020s8

Earlier decades hold fewer storms partly because they were harder to see. Before weather satellites (about the 1960s) many storms that stayed at sea went unrecorded, so compare decades with care.

Storms by month
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 37 in Oct.Jan1Feb0Mar0Apr3May9Jun15Jul19Aug3Sep23Oct37Nov29Dec9
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan1
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May9
Jun15
Jul19
Aug3
Sep23
Oct37
Nov29
Dec9

Strongest storms near Bulacan

  • Angela (1995)20 October 1995 to 7 November 1995, peak Category 5 (155 kt), 910 hPa
  • Noru (2022)21 September 2022 to 29 September 2022, Category 4 (130 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 940 hPa
  • Rita (1978)15 October 1978 to 30 October 1978, Category 4 (125 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (150 kt), 880 hPa
  • Ruby (1988)20 October 1988 to 29 October 1988, peak Category 4 (125 kt), 950 hPa
  • Babs (1998)11 October 1998 to 30 October 1998, peak Category 4 (135 kt), 940 hPa

Most recent storms near Bulacan

  • Fengshen (2025)15 October 2025 to 23 October 2025, peak Tropical storm (51 kt), 990 hPa, provisional
  • Unnamed storm of April 2023 (Western North Pacific)11 April 2023 to 13 April 2023, peak Unknown intensity
  • Nalgae (2022)26 October 2022 to 3 November 2022, Tropical storm (55 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (75 kt), 975 hPa

Many of these storms killed people and destroyed homes. The figures are the official record's, and this page says nothing about their human cost.

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