CNN confirmed that the US has never been hit by a super typhoon with an intensity of up to 297km/h, sometimes even more, lasting longer than the record of 37 hours.
Irma is the strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic region, outside the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbe Sea.
It has been circulating for 3 days, at level 5+, the strongest level of this type of natural disaster, since it was monitored via satellite.
It forced the Bahamas (Florida) to conduct the largest migration in history, and possibly the largest in US history.
Here are CNN statistics showing some of the records that Hurricane Irma has "broken".
An estimated 6.3 million people have been ordered to evacuate from Florida. This is likely the largest evacuation in US history. Power outages in the first hours of Hurricane Irma making landfall affected 1.3 million people.
Flooding rose to 4.5 meters along the southwest coast of Florida, which is expected to be the heaviest level of flooding ever. According to the data, only two storms have been recorded as strong as a Category 4+ in the US. But it has never reached a Category 5+ level like Hurricane Irma.
Tropical storm Irma is spreading across an area of 70,000 square miles (194,000km2). Meanwhile, Florida history has only recorded a super typhoon affecting an area of 61,000 square miles. Photo: Irma's wind speeds are 185 mph, or 297km/h.
95% of buildings in Flordia were damaged by Irma. An estimated 5,000 people are being evacuated from the Bahamas - the largest evacuation in Florida's history.
