Matthew's Jaw-Dropping Stats: Nearly 250 Miles Wide, a 2,000-Mile Journey, And It's Not Over

Brian Donegan
Published: October 6,2016
Hurricane Matthew will be remembered as a historic storm and residents along the Southeast coast and in the Caribbean will be talking about it for decades.
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Here are some of the astounding numbers produced by Hurricane Matthew, so far.

Current Storm Status

5: At peak intensity, Matthew was a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph late Sept. 30 into early Oct. 1.
6: Counties in Georgia that have mandatory evacuations in place in anticipation of Matthew's arrival.
12+: Days that meteorologists have been tracking Matthew. Invest 97L was designated by the National Hurricane Center on Sept. 25. The invest became Tropical Storm Matthew on Sept. 28 and quickly strengthened into a hurricane by Sept. 29 in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
13: Matthew will likely be the 13th billion-dollar weather disaster in the United States this year.
155: The peak unconfirmed wind gust recorded in eastern Cuba from Matthew was 155 mph.
250: Miles of Matthew's diameter while off the east coast of Florida, which isn't a terribly large hurricane, but is roughly the distance across Pennsylvania, from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia.
250+: The number of people who have been killed in the Caribbean is over 250 people, with the majority of the deaths reported in Haiti. For the latest on Caribbean impacts, click here.
(MORE: State-by-State Evacuation Orders | Interactive Matthew Tracker Page)

Projected Path and Intensity

500: Florida National Guardsman activated.
530: Miles mandatory evacuations extend from Palm Beach County, Florida, to the North Carolina/South Carolina state line.
1898: The last year the last, and only, Category 4 hurricane made landfall anywhere in northeastern Florida or along the Georgia coast.
2,000: Miles Matthew has traveled.
2010:  The year a storm also named Matthew killed more than 70 people in Central America.
3,000: Flights have been canceled between Thursday and Friday, many of them in or out of Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
20,000+: Customers in Florida without power by 8 p.m. Thursday.
2.5 million: Power outages Florida Power and Light expects statewide.
(MORE: Where Hurricane Matthew Came From and How Long We've Been Tracking the Monster Storm)