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  2. List of the deadliest tropical cyclones - Wikipedia

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    A collage of the ten deadliest tropical cyclones worldwide since 1990 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.

  3. List of Atlantic hurricane records - Wikipedia

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    Due to the above factors, terms such as "ever" or "on record" should be interpreted to mean "since sometime between 1964 and 1978". The most active Atlantic hurricane season on record in terms of total storms took place in 2020, with 30 documented. The storm count for the 2020 season also includes fourteen hurricanes, of which seven ...

  4. List of tropical cyclone records - Wikipedia

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    Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey in the northern Gulf Coast of the United States [5] Costliest tropical cyclone season: ≥$294.803 billion (2017 USD) in damages during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season: April 19, 2017 – November 9, 2017: North Atlantic Ocean [6] Deadliest tropical cyclone: c. 500,000+ fatalities: November 12, 1970

  5. List of United States hurricanes - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Template:Deadliest United States hurricanes - Wikipedia

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    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"

  7. 1900 Galveston hurricane - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Lists of Atlantic hurricanes - Wikipedia

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    Lists of Atlantic hurricanes, or tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, are organized by the properties of the hurricane or by the location most affected. By property [ edit ]

  9. List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    This list takes into account only the highest estimated death toll for each disaster and lists them accordingly. It does not include epidemics and famines.The list also does not include the 1938 Yellow River flood, which was caused by the deliberate destruction of dikes.