HumAID — hurricane_irma_2017

A Twitter dataset of 9,399 tweets from hurricane_irma_2017, collected by Alam et al. for hurricane_irma_2017 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the hurricane_irma_2017 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisis informatics#Humaid#Humanitarian category

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9.7
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.6
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
irmahurricanefloridadamagefloodhurricaneirmaamphelpreliefvictimswaterpeopleearthquakehomecaribbeanaffectedpowerstormdestroyedfoodharveyhomesneedfloodingnewsdonateeffortsresidentsmiamievacuationshelterdeathdamagedislandstollaidkeysdeadtrumpdestructionnursingareashittodayirmasmexicocountykilledsafedeaths
Topic clusters

Topic 0

irma
relief
hurricane
help
donate
effort
victim
food

Topic 1

evacuation
shelter
evacuate
irma
pet
mandatory
evacuee
hurricane

Topic 2

hurricaneirma
help
relief
damage
amp
effort
affect
donate

Topic 3

trump
president
victim
flood
damage
mar
lago
daca

Topic 4

prayer
pray
thought
affect
safe
amp
family
path

Topic 5

caribbean
damage
hurricane
irma
destruction
island
maria
cuba

Topic 6

death
toll
caribbean
kill
rise
hurricane
irma
people

Topic 7

earthquake
magnitude
quake
haiti
feel
report
california
utc

Topic 8

flood
water
damage
car
home
insurance
avoid
recede

Topic 9

houston
flood
victim
relief
texas
fund
help
raise

Topic 10

nursing
home
dead
death
florida
die
power
hollywood

Topic 11

warning
flash
flood
heavy
rain
river
issue
sep
Show all 15 topics

Topic 12

keys
florida
key
damage
destroy
home
irma
west

Topic 13

mexico
earthquake
offer
quake
aid
people
condolence
mexican

Topic 14

damage
irma
destroy
house
home
destruction
roof
property
Top hashtags
#irma1.7K
#hurricaneirma1.2K
#florida181
#harvey104
#hurricane98
#news85
#hurricaneirma201771
#earthquake64
#flood64
#hurricaneharvey64
#irmahurricane201764
#breaking48
#irmarecovery41
#miami35
#evacuation34
#irma201733
#barbuda30
#floridakeys28
#flwx26
#irmas26
Top emoji
🙏122
🏼36
🇺31
🏾29
😂29
🚨29
🏻28
🇸27
👇25
😭25
🌀20
🏽19
👍15
💔15
👉14

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-hurricane_irma_2017
Authors
Alam, Firoj; Ofli, Ferda; Imran, Muhammad
Year
2020
Source paper
HumAID: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Disaster Response
DOI / arXiv
10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
9,399
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2017 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://github.com/ChenBeici/SocialED_datasets/tree/main/raw_data/HumAID link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 1.4 MB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

HumAID: Human-Annotated Disaster Incidents Data from Twitter with Deep Learning Benchmarks
Firoj Alam, U. Qazi, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli
Journal Article · International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021

126
citations
well cited
16
influential citations
13% of all citations

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How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{alam2020humaid,
  author    = {Alam, Firoj and Ofli, Ferda and Imran, Muhammad},
  title     = {HumAID: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Disaster Response},
  year      = {2020},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management},
  series    = {ISCRAM '20}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Alam, F., Ofli, F., & Imran, M. (2020). HumAID — hurricane_irma_2017 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Alam, Firoj, et al. HumAID — hurricane_irma_2017. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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