Many countries have developed their own typhoon database for the use in understanding historical typhoon. However, when each database is compared, inconsistencies are evident in terms of the depth of information provided. This paper outlines the development of a combined database and provides comprehensive details of typhoons impacting the southeastern Chinese coastal provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Zhejiang. The database is titled “A historical typhoon database for the southeastern Chinese coastal provinces, 1951-2010” and contains entries for 581 reported typhoon events that have occurred between 1951 and 2010, with standard typhoon information presented where obtainable. Importantly, additional information on the number of casualties is included for 265 typhoon events that have records of the death toll, and 131 events that have records of the economic loss caused by each event. Using this new database, we highlight the worst typhoon events that have impacted the southeastern Chinese coastal provinces in terms of fatalities from 1951 to 2010. A decreasing trend in both the number of fatalities and economic loss are recorded for the entire data period for the former and since 1993 for the latter.