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The 1985 season was the year with the most tropical cyclones affecting the state, with a total of eight systems. Every year included at least one tropical cyclone affecting the state. The strongest hurricane to hit the state during the time period was Hurricane Andrew, which was one of only four Category 5 hurricanes to strike the United States ...
The strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall on the state was the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, which crossed the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 millibars (26.3 inHg); it is also the strongest hurricane on record to strike the United States. Out of the ten most intense landfalling United States hurricanes, four struck Florida at peak strength.
Every year included at least one tropical cyclone affecting the state. During the 2004 season, more than one out of every five houses in the state received damage. [ 1 ] After Wilma in 2005, it would be 11 years until another hurricane would strike the state, Hermine in 2016.
September 29, 1917 – A major hurricane moves makes landfall near Pensacola on Ft. Walton Beach with recorded sustained winds of 103 mph (166 km/h) and gusts to 125 mph (200 km/h); the passage of the cyclone results in 5 fatalities and about $170,000 in damage (1917 USD, $2.9 million 2008 USD). [21]
Tracks of hurricanes over Florida from 1950 to 1974. 85 Atlantic tropical or subtropical cyclones have affected the U.S. state of Florida from 1950 to 1964. Collectively, tropical cyclones in Florida during the time period resulted in about $7.04 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from Hurricanes Donna and Dora.
Tracks of hurricanes over Florida from 1851 to 1899. From 1523 to 1900, 180 tropical cyclones were known to have affected the U.S. state of Florida.Since the start of the Atlantic hurricane database in 1851, there were only eight years in which no tropical cyclone affected the state.
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
Radar image of Hurricane Alice (1954–55), the only Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to span two calendar years at hurricane strength. Climatologically speaking, approximately 97 percent of tropical cyclones that form in the North Atlantic develop between June 1 and November 30 – dates which delimit the modern-day Atlantic hurricane season.