The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season may be best-remembered for its unusual distribution of storms, including Melissa, which struck Jamaica as a devastating Category 5 hurricane.

Meanwhile the U.S. was left relatively unscathed, sparing the emergency response system here of a major test after Trump administration plans to overhaul or abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency plunged FEMA into turmoil. The season ended Nov. 30.

“It was kind of a strange season, just how the storms played out,” said Phil Klotzbach, a senior research scientist at Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Science. “It was an odd distribution of storms, and the hurricanes that formed were quite strong.”

For the U.S. it was the first time in a decade with no landfalling hurricane. No named sto

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