Puerto Rico is subject to extreme wave events ranging from Category 5 Hurricanes such as Hurricanes Irma and María to strong winter swells such as the one generated by Winter Storm Riley in March 2018. Rare but moderate-sized wave events such as Hurricane Lenny (1999) and Hurricane Matthew (2016) also play a major role in shaping our coastlines and causing erosion, accretion and damage to coastal infrastructure. The figure below shows a heat map where different colors represent which events caused the largest wave energy (most severe sea state) at each location within the model domain. Note that while the light blue color, which represents Hurricanes Irma and María in 2017, cover a majority fo the domain, there are other events that dominate, most notably Hurricane Allen (1980) in waters off southwestern PR. Also, note that large winter swell events in 2008 and 2018 caused higher wave energy throughout most of the nearshore waters off the northern coast of Puerto Rico than hurricane events.