How many miles wide is hurricane irma?

The eye of the storm fluctuates around 30 miles across. The eye of the storm itself would cover the Detroit area, which is roughly 1,337.16 square miles (3,463.2 km2). read more

About 425 miles wide, Irma is significantly larger than Hurricane Andrew, which devastated parts of South Florida in 1992. Andrew’s top sustained winds were 175 mph, as were Hurricane Katrina’s in 2005. read more

Irma, with its hurricane-force winds extending 80 miles out from its center “will bring life-threatening wind impacts to much of Florida regardless of the exact track of the center,” the National Hurricane Center reports. read more