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This is a list of the costliest Atlantic hurricanes, with US$1 billion in property damage, broadly capturing the severity of the damage each tropical cyclone has caused. The list includes tropical storms, a tropical cyclone with a peak 1-minute maximum sustained wind in the range of 39–73 mph (63–118 km/h), placing them below the 74 mph ...
Costliest U.S. Atlantic hurricanes, 1900–2017 Direct economic losses, normalized to societal conditions in 2018 [1] Rank Hurricane Season Cost 1 4 "Miami" 1926: $235.9 billion 2 4 "Galveston" 1900: $138.6 billion 3 3 Katrina: 2005: $116.9 billion 4 4 "Galveston" 1915: $109.8 billion 5 5 Andrew: 1992: $106.0 billion 6 ET Sandy: 2012 $73.5 ...
It caused $30 billion in damage and more than 40 deaths. It was the costliest natural disaster in the history of the U.S. at the time. When the 1992 hurricane season ended, the name Andrew was ...
Experts estimated that the economic loss and damage from Hurricane Beryl, which hit the Gulf Coast in July, was between $28 billion to 32 billion. ... while Hurricane Francine cost about $9 billion.
Damage: Costs from Helene’s path of destruction across the southeastern U.S. are expected to surpass $30 billion, one analysis shows. What happened: Helene is the fourth-deadliest hurricane to ...
Costliest U.S. Atlantic hurricanes [1] [2] [nb 1] Rank Hurricane Season Damage 1 3 Katrina: 2005: $125 billion 4 Harvey: 2017: 3 4 Helene: 2024: $120 billion 4 4 Ian: 2022: $113 billion 5 4 Maria: 2017: $90 billion 6 3 Milton: 2024: $85 billion 7 4 Ida: 2021: $75 billion 8 ET Sandy: 2012: $65 billion 9 4 Irma: 2017: $52.1 billion 10 2 Ike: 2008
English: Variwide (variable-width) bar chart showing number of U.S. hurricanes, cost per hurricane, and total cost per decade, organized by decade starting in 1980 Source of data for this graphic: Philbrick, Ian Pasad; Wu, Ashley, (2 December 2022). "Population Growth Is Making Hurricanes More Expensive". The New York Times.
A report from the charity on hurricanes, floods, typhoons and storms influenced by climate change warns that the top 10 disasters each cost more than 4 billion US dollars in damage (£3.2 billion).