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Hurricane Katrina, tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in August 2005, breaching levees and causing widespread death and damage. Ultimately, the storm caused more than $160 billion in damage, and it reduced the population of New Orleans by 29 percent between the fall of 2005 and 2011.
The death toll from Katrina is uncertain, with reports differing by hundreds. According to the National Hurricane Center, 1,836 fatalities can be attributed to the storm: one in Kentucky, two each in Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio, 14 in Florida, 238 in Mississippi, and 1,577 in Louisiana.
The new counts found that 520 of the deaths, including 341 in Louisiana, were directly caused by Katrina, mostly the result of drowning.
With maximum sustained winds of 175 mph, the storm killed a total of 1,833 people and left millions homeless in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
On Monday, August 29, 2005, the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed east of the city, subjecting it to hurricane wind conditions, but sparing New Orleans of the worst impact. The city seemed to have escaped most of the catastrophic wind damage and heavy rain that had been predicted.
The storm triggered catastrophic flooding, particularly in the city of New Orleans, and caused more than 1,800 deaths. Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 storm that made landfall...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pumped the last of the floodwaters out of the city on October 11, 2005, some 43 days after Katrina made landfall. Ultimately, the storm caused more than $160 billion in damage, and the population of New Orleans fell by 29 percent between the fall of 2005 and 2011. Although many residents returned and the city ...
We identified 971 Katrina-related deaths that occurred in Louisiana and at least 15 deaths that occurred among Loui-siana Katrina evacuees in other states, for a conservative storm-related death total of 986 victims. The state coroner was forwarded 446 out-of-state death certificates for Louisi-ana residents.
Katrina is surpassed by the Galveston, Texas hurricane in 1900 that claimed at least 8000 lives, and by the 1928 Lake Okeechobee, Florida hurricane with over 2500 fatalities. Katrina ranks as the third deadliest hurricane in the United States since 1900, and the deadliest in 77 years.
An estimated 1,200 people died as a direct result of the storm, which also cost an estimated $108 billion in property damage, making it the costliest storm on record.