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Cost of Significant US Hurricanes
Comparison of inflation-adjusted costs for major hurricanes.
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Costliest US Hurricanes of the 21st Century - Business Insider
By Gabbi Shaw You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Search-and-rescue volunteers rescued patients from the Cypress Glen nursing home, which was engulfed in floodwater in Port Arthur, Texas, during Hurricane Harvey. Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images 2026-04-17T15:51:38.200Z Hurricane season is just around the corner. In recent years, hurricanes have been getting worse. The costliest US hurricanes of the 21st century include Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey. Batten down the hatches: Hurricane season begins in less than two months. And if you listen to the experts, this year could be a doozy.While initial predictions point to a normal or below-average hurricane season in the US, factors such as El Niño, rising sea temperatures, and infrastructure issues still create the potential for devastating storms and an unpredictable season.Rapid intensification, which is becoming more common, can even turn a mild tropical storm into a Category 3 in just one day.As one professor told USA Today, "You prepare for a Hurricane Andrew or a Katrina every year because it only takes one."Hurricanes can cause billions of dollars in damage. They lead to flooding, storm surges, and destructive tornadoes, which can wash away homes, stores, cars, and other property. They can also devastate a city's power grid, affect agriculture, and impact gas prices. The deadliest hurricanes can also take hundreds of lives.To identify the costliest US hurricanes over the last 26 years, we used unadjusted storm costs from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and adjusted them to 2026 dollars using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumer price index inflation calculator.Here are the 15 costliest US hurricanes of the 21st century. 15. Hurricane Rita — $30.73 billion A pickup truck was filled with water on a street in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, on September 24, 2005, after a storm surge from Hurricane Rita breached a patch in the levee. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Hurricane Rita, which made landfall in September 2005, is tied with Hurricane Milton (listed below) as the two most intense tropical cyclones on record in the Gulf of Mexico, per the NOAA.What made Rita especially dangerous is that it came just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina almost wiped out parts of Louisiana and Texas. While the storm turned out not to be as severe, it still caused flooding and power outages across the two s...
List of United States hurricanes - Wikipedia
The list of United States hurricanes includes all tropical cyclones officially recorded to have produced sustained winds of greater than 74 mph (119 km/h) in the United States, which is the minimum threshold for hurricane intensity. The list, which is sorted by U.S. state, begins in 1851 with the start of the official Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT), as provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division. Since 1851, a total of 307 North Atlantic hurricanes produced hurricane-force winds in 19 states along the Atlantic coast. Some of these storms may not have made a direct landfall (i.e. remained just offshore) while producing hurricane-force winds on land; some of them may have weakened to a tropical storm or became extratropical before landfall but produced hurricane conditions on land while still a hurricane and some of them made landfall in an adjacent state but produced hurricane conditions over multiple states. This list does not include storms that only produced tropical storm conditions on land in the United States. Continental United States hurricane strikes 1950–2022 Additionally, three Pacific hurricanes struck Hawaii, and one Pacific tropical cyclone brought hurricane-force winds to California. The tables list hurricanes by category on the Saffir–Simpson scale, based on winds that occurred in each state. Map of the United States; click on individual states to be directed to its article,or click on some coastal states to be directed to a list of tropical cyclones in those locations As of 2022, a total of 305 Atlantic hurricanes have produced hurricane-force winds in every state along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico (as well as Pennsylvania), with Florida having had more hurricanes affecting it than any other state.[1] The earliest time in the year for a hurricane (and a major hurricane) to strike the nation was June 9, which was set by Alma in 1966. The earliest major hurricane (category 3 or greater) to make an actual landfall in the nation occurred in 1957, when Hurricane Audrey made landfall at category 3 intensity on June 27. The latest in the year for a hurricane to strike the nation was on November 24 with Hurricane Iwa in Hawaii; for the Atlantic basin the latest was on November 22, which was set by Hurricane Kate in 1985. The latest in the year for a major hurricane to strike the nation was from Hurricane Zeta, which moved ashore on October 28.[2] The 1990s were the most active decad...
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