List of West Africa hurricanes

This list of West Africa hurricanes includes all Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclones that have made landfall on, or directly affected, the Atlantic coast of West Africa or its surrounding islands: the Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands.

Cabo Verde has only one tropical cyclone monitoring station in Sal.

[40] In Africa, there are three tropical cyclone monitoring stations in Dakar, Senegal,[41] Bamako, Mali[42] and Niamey, Niger[43] At least 32 tropical cyclones have affected Western Africa and its surrounding islands since records began in 1851.

The majority of the storms affect West Africa and Cape Verde islands during the months of August and September which are the active months of a typical Atlantic hurricane season.

The following is a list of Atlantic tropical storms that caused fatalities in West Africa and its surrounding islands.