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This is a list of the deadliest tropical cyclones, including all known storms that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths. There were at least 76 tropical cyclones in the 20th century with a death toll of 1,000 or more, including the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history.
The 10 costliest Atlantic hurricanes as of January 2023.. As of November 2024, there have been 1,745 tropical cyclones of at least tropical storm intensity, 971 at hurricane intensity, and 338 at major hurricane intensity within the Atlantic Ocean since 1851, the first Atlantic hurricane season to be included in the official Atlantic tropical cyclone record. [1]
The 1900 Galveston hurricane was the deadliest hurricane in the history of the United States, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people. 2017s Hurricane Maria resulted in at least 2,982 fatalities. The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused at least 2,500 fatalities, and in 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed approximately 1,800 people.
Deadliest United States hurricanes Rank Hurricane Season Fatalities 1 4 "Galveston" 1900: 8,000–12,000 2 4 "San Ciriaco" 1899: 3,400 3 4 Maria 2017: 2,982 4 5 "Okeechobee"
1926 Havana–Bermuda hurricane: Cuba, United States, Bahamas, Bermuda Tropical cyclone October 14 –28 1927 40,912 1927 Gulang earthquake: China, Tibet Earthquake May 22 1928 4,112+ 1928 Okeechobee hurricane: United States, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Bahamas, Dominica, Tropical cyclone September 12 –21 1929 3,257–3,800 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake
List of Alabama hurricanes; List of Arizona hurricanes; List of California hurricanes; List of Delaware hurricanes; List of Florida hurricanes. List of Florida hurricanes (pre-1900) List of Florida hurricanes (1900–1949) List of Florida hurricanes (1950–1974) List of Florida hurricanes (1975–1999) List of Florida hurricanes (2000–present)
The Galveston hurricane of 1900 remains the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. [26] The disaster did not even spare the buried dead; a number of coffins, including reportedly that of actor-playwright Charles Francis Coghlan who had died in Galveston the previous year, were washed out of the local cemetery to sea by the tidal storm ...
The hurricane killed an estimated 2,500 people in the United States; most of the fatalities occurred in the state of Florida, particularly in Lake Okeechobee. It was the fourth tropical cyclone, third hurricane, the only major hurricane of the 1928 Atlantic hurricane season, and remains the deadliest disaster in Florida’s history to date. [1]