At least three people have been killed since the storm made landfall on Saturday but it does not appear to have been as severe as many had feared.
Around a million people have fled their homes because of the storm.
Correspondents say the storm is nowhere near as powerful as typhoon Haiyan, which killed thousands of people last year.
In Tacloban, badly hit by typhoon Haiyan, roofs have been blown away by Hagupit and streets are flooded.
Typhoon Hagupit brought winds of 140km/h (90mph) and gusts of 170km/h (105 mph) at 17:00 local time (0900 GMT) on Sunday, government forecaster Pagasa said.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Legazpi, about 200km (125 miles) north of Tacloban, said Hagupit was clearly still a powerful storm but nowhere near as dangerous as Haiyan.
Authorities say they were better prepared than in 2013, and organised the largest peacetime evacuation in the history of the Philippines.
Known locally as Typhoon Ruby, Hagupit has nonetheless caused major damage in several towns on the east coast of the Philippines.
The mayor of Dolores, where the hurricane first made landfall on Saturday, said that 80% of homes there had been destroyed. One resident reportedly died after a tree fell on him.
Another two people in the central province of Iloilo reportedly died from hypothermia.
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