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1870s Pacific typhoon seasons
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This article encompasses the 1870s Pacific typhoon seasons. While data is not available for every storm that occurred, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to give data of typhoon occurrences.
Pacific typhoon seasons 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
1870 season
There were 8 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1870, 6 of which were typhoons.R. García-Herrera P. Ribera E. Hernández L. Gimeno 2010 Typhoons in the Philippine Islands 1566–1900 The Selga Chronology Part I: 1348-1900 JGR - Atmospheres 2014-07-27 http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/info/tropical/selga-i.html 2021-12-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20211206080759/http://webs.ucm.es/info/tropical/selga-i.html dead
1871 season
There were 7 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1871, 5 of which were typhoons. In March, 11 people died when a typhoon wrecked their boat.
1872 season
There were 4 tropical cyclones in the Philippines in 1872, 2 of which were typhoons. In August 1872, a typhoon struck Guam.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277964781 researchgate.net Typhoons in Micronesia. A history of tropical cyclones and their effects until 1914 2020-09-03
1873 season
There were 6 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1873, 4 of which were typhoons. A typhoon in October killed at least 200 people in the Philippines.
List of shipwrecks in July 1873#21 July
Not included in the above number, a typhoon on July 21 ran several ships ashore in Amoy and Soonghing, China.Latest Shipping Intelligence 4 August 1873 27759 6 F
1874 season
There were 8 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1874, 6 of which were typhoons.
The 1874 Hong Kong typhoon hit Hong Kong during the night of Tuesday 22 September and the morning of Wednesday 23 September 1874. It killed about 10,000 people.Reconstruction of an 8,000-year record of typhoons in the Pearl River Estuary, China https://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/188774/2/Content.pdf?accept=1%5B%5D live October 9, 2021 hub.hku.hk https://web.archive.org/web/20211009122240/https://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/188774/2/Content.pdf?accept=1%5B%5D 2021-10-09 A typhoon struck Ailinglaplap in the Marshall Islands, killing more than 300 people.
1875 season
There were 6 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1875, 4 of which were typhoons. A typhoon in December killed four people in the Philippines.
List of shipwrecks in June 1875#2 June
Not included in the above number, a typhoon on June 2 foundered the steamship Poyang at Macao, killing about 100 people and leaving only 16 survivors.A Hurricane at Macao Pall Mall Gazette London 3 June 1875 3211 Wreck in the China Seas Star Saint Peter Port 27 July 1875 6 62 Macao suffered severe damage from the storm, while damage in Hong Kong was light.Typhoon in China Maitland Mercury 29 July 1875 3
1876 season
There were two typhoons in the Western Pacific in 1876. One of them struck the Philippines in November, killing 150 people.
1877 season
There was at least one tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific in 1877.
1878 season
There were 4 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1878, 3 of which were typhoons.
1879 season
There were 9 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1879, 8 of which were typhoons.
Not included in the above number, the Italian steam corvette Vettor Pisani encountered a fierce typhoon between July 29 and August 1 in the Taiwan Strait. The vessel was damaged, listed by up to 40° and having lost sails, boats and doors. A few of the crew members sustained injuries.1879-10-22 Il viaggio della Vettor Pisani The Journey of Vettor Pisani it Gazzetta Piemontese http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,2/articleid,1261_01_1879_0291_0002_18725468/anews,true/ 2025-10-31
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