This video montage doesn’t show footage from Hurricane Milton

Hurricane Milton killed at least 17 people and left nearly 2 million without power in Florida. The storm also generated extensive news coverage, but some videos circulating on social media claiming to show Milton are suspect.

“Hurricane Milton is Here,” text over a Oct. 9 Instagram video purporting to show footage from the storm read.

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The first clip shows pieces of an apartment roof tearing off and flying into the air. But the footage was not taken during Hurricane Milton, which hit western Florida on Oct. 9. The video shows wreckage caused by a July 15 tornado in Des Moines, Iowa.

The second clip also doesn’t show Hurricane Milton. It depicts an April 2022 tornado captured on security cameras in Andover, Kansas. We found the third and fourth clips posted to TikTok on Nov. 30, 2023, and Aug. 19, 2023, respectively, more than a year before Hurricane Milton touched down in Florida.

The fifth clip comes from a montage posted Oct. 8 on X and TikTok, a day before Hurricane Milton made landfall. The TikTok account that first posted the video has taken it down.

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A reverse-image search showed us that the sixth clip shows Hurricane Helene on Sept. 26, and the seventh clip is from a Sept. 7 X post that says it shows shipping containers toppling in Vietnam because of winds from Typhoon Yagi, which hit southern China and southeast Asia in early September.

The next clip shows the roof of a house flying off in São Paulo, Brazil, during heavy rains in October 2023. And the final clip was posted to TikTok on April 17, months before Hurricane Milton appeared.

We rate the claim that this Instagram video shows footage of Hurricane Milton in Florida False.