About SimStorm

We exist to make hurricane knowledge accurate, clear, and genuinely useful, so that anyone in hurricane country can understand the science and prepare with confidence, long before a storm is ever in the forecast.

About us

SimStorm™ is built by the SimStorm Team and guided by our founder, a civil engineer who holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral (PhD) degrees in Civil Engineering and brings more than 20 years of experience in hurricane hazards, storm climatology, coastal flooding, and flood-risk management. That background shapes everything here: how we read the science, which sources we trust, and how carefully we handle the numbers that people rely on to stay safe and make decisions.

We pair that expertise with a simple discipline, that every factual claim is traced to a primary source and cited inline, so the site is both authoritative and checkable. We are an independent publication, not a government agency, and we do not issue forecasts; for official watches, warnings, and forecasts, always rely on the National Hurricane Center and your local emergency officials.

What we cover

Hurricanes touch many fields, so the site is organized into focused sections: the science of how hurricanes form and rate, the hazards they bring (surge, wind, rainfall, and inland flooding), historic storms and what they taught us, forecasting, engineering and building resilience, insurance and recovery, and hurricanes explained for younger readers. It is written for homeowners, students, researchers, and anyone who lives where the storms come ashore.

Our commitment to accuracy

Hurricane information is safety information, so we hold it to a high standard. Factual claims, including death tolls, damages, wind speeds, dates, category ratings, and insurance and program rules, are drawn from authoritative primary sources such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the National Weather Service, FEMA, and the peer-reviewed literature. Where a figure appears in an article, it carries an inline citation to its source. If you find something that looks wrong, we want to know. Corrections are welcome and taken seriously.

How we fact-check every article

Accuracy is a process here, not a promise. Before a factual claim is published, we hold it to a tiered standard:

• Primary sources first. When an authoritative body publishes a figure, such as an official death toll from NOAA or the NHC, a program rule from FEMA, or a record from the National Weather Service, we source directly to it.
• Corroboration where no primary source exists. For questions no official body settles, we require agreement among independent, peer-reviewed or published-standard sources before publishing, and leave out what we cannot verify.
• Everything is cited inline. Each number carries a footnote to the source it came from, so you can check our work rather than take our word for it.
• Conversions, not new claims. Units are shown in both US and metric; those conversions are arithmetic, never a substitute for a sourced figure.

How the site is funded

To keep the content free, the site is supported by advertising and by affiliate links to relevant products and services, which come at no extra cost to you and are disclosed where they appear. Funding never changes the facts: our sourcing standards are the same regardless of any commercial relationship.

Get in touch

Questions, corrections, partnership ideas, or feedback are always welcome. Our contact email address is coming soon — in the meantime, see our Contact page.