Erin was a tropical storm in the North Atlantic Ocean late Monday Eastern time, the National Hurricane Center said in its ...

Conditions are becoming more suitable for tropical storm and hurricane formation and residents are urged to increase levels ...

Hurricane risk by state The forecast includes a state-by-state look at hurricane risk. Those calculations predict the chances of a storm passing within 50 miles of the state.

Meanwhile, there is a low, but not negligible, risk to the north in New England. Rhode Island faces a 25% storm chance and 9% hurricane chance, forecasters say.

Colorado State researchers said there's a 51% chance of a major hurricane making landfall somewhere along the U.S. coastline. The average, based on records from 1880 to 2020, is 43%.