Hawaii's geographic position and prevailing steering patterns from the subtropical high keep most eastern Pacific tropical cyclones from making direct landfall as hurricanes, with only three confirmed hurricane-force impacts since 1950, all near Kauai. Recent data from Hurricane Lala in August 2026, which intensified to Category 1 but tracked just south of the Big Island without a center crossing, reinforce this climatological barrier of wind shear, cooler nearshore waters, and rapid weakening trends. With the peak season winding down by late August 2026 and limited time remaining before 2027, trader consensus at 92.5% for no landfall reflects these persistent meteorological factors. An atypical late-season system maintaining strength on an uncommon northward track remains the main low-probability scenario that could alter outcomes.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · UpdatedWill a hurricane make landfall in Hawaii before 2027?
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A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 74 mph or greater (Category 1 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale), as described at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php, and a hurricane landfall is said to occur when the hurricane's surface center intersects with the coastline, as described at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutgloss.shtml#LANDFALL. A storm must hold hurricane strength (Category 1 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale) at the moment its surface center intersects the coastline for that landfall to qualify.
"Hawaii" means the entire State of Hawaii as recognized under U.S. law, including the main Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiʻi, Maui, Oʻahu, Kauaʻi, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Niʻihau, and Kahoʻolawe) and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (including Midway Atoll and the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument).
The wind speed at the moment of landfall will be determined from the CPHC advisory or Special Advisory in effect at the time closest to the reported landfall time; where no advisory covers that exact moment, the most recent advisory issued prior to landfall governs.
This market may resolve based on the initial CPHC advisory reporting a qualifying landfall regardless of any later advisory, retraction, best-track revision, or reanalysis that revises that storm's intensity downward at the time of landfall. However, if a subsequent advisory or correction identifies a qualifying landfall that was not reflected in initial reporting, this market will resolve to "Yes" based on that correction.
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0x65070BE91...A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 74 mph or greater (Category 1 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale), as described at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php, and a hurricane landfall is said to occur when the hurricane's surface center intersects with the coastline, as described at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutgloss.shtml#LANDFALL. A storm must hold hurricane strength (Category 1 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale) at the moment its surface center intersects the coastline for that landfall to qualify.
"Hawaii" means the entire State of Hawaii as recognized under U.S. law, including the main Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiʻi, Maui, Oʻahu, Kauaʻi, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Niʻihau, and Kahoʻolawe) and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (including Midway Atoll and the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument).
The wind speed at the moment of landfall will be determined from the CPHC advisory or Special Advisory in effect at the time closest to the reported landfall time; where no advisory covers that exact moment, the most recent advisory issued prior to landfall governs.
This market may resolve based on the initial CPHC advisory reporting a qualifying landfall regardless of any later advisory, retraction, best-track revision, or reanalysis that revises that storm's intensity downward at the time of landfall. However, if a subsequent advisory or correction identifies a qualifying landfall that was not reflected in initial reporting, this market will resolve to "Yes" based on that correction.
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0x65070BE91...Hawaii's geographic position and prevailing steering patterns from the subtropical high keep most eastern Pacific tropical cyclones from making direct landfall as hurricanes, with only three confirmed hurricane-force impacts since 1950, all near Kauai. Recent data from Hurricane Lala in August 2026, which intensified to Category 1 but tracked just south of the Big Island without a center crossing, reinforce this climatological barrier of wind shear, cooler nearshore waters, and rapid weakening trends. With the peak season winding down by late August 2026 and limited time remaining before 2027, trader consensus at 92.5% for no landfall reflects these persistent meteorological factors. An atypical late-season system maintaining strength on an uncommon northward track remains the main low-probability scenario that could alter outcomes.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · Updated



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