NORTH ATLANTIC DEADLIEST/COSTLIEST HURRICANES

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Welcome to the Deadliest/Costliest Hurricanes Page of Hurricane Alley. 

This page contains information concerning the deadliest and costliest , in terms of verifiable deaths and monetary loss, of North Atlantic basin hurricanes. Initially all that is available are the tracking charts with the dates, locations impacted, and deaths. As time permits, we will be adding articles concerning these storms. The first group will only be those storms since 1886. Earlier track information is being gathered so that we may include those storms prior to 1886.

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Deadliest U.S. Landfalling Hurricanes since 1886

• 1,000 or more deaths
   

  Date / Storm	Location	Category	Deaths
  August 1893	GA/SC	?	1,000 - 2,000
  October 1893	Southeast LA	?	2,000 +
  September 1900	Texas (Galveston)	4	8,000 +
  September 1928	Southeast FL	4	2500 - 3000
  August 2005	SE LA / MS / AL	3	1599

  
   

• 500 - 1,000 deaths
   

  Date / Storm	Location	Category	Deaths
  August 1881	GA/SC	2	700
  September 1919	Florida Keys/South TX	4	600
  September 1938	Northeast U.S.	3	600

  
   

• 100 - 500 deaths
   

  Date / Storm	Location	Category	Deaths
  June 1906	Southeast FL	2	164
  September 1906	MS/AL/Pensacola	3	134
  September 1909	Louisiana (Grand Isle)	4	350
  August 1915	Texas (Galveston)	4	275
  September 1915	Louisiana (New Orleans)	4	275
  September 1926	Miami/Pensacola/MS/AL	4	243
  September 1935	Florida Keys	5	408
  September 1944	Northeast U.S.	3	390
  August 1955 - DIANE	Northeast U.S.	1	184
  June 1957 - AUDREY	Southwest LA/Northeast TX	4	390
  August 1969 - CAMILLE	MS/Southeast LA/VA	5	256
  August 1972 - AGNES	FL/Northeast U.S.	1	122

   

• 50 - 100 deaths
   

  Date / Storm	Location	Category	Deaths
  August 1940	GA/SC/NC	2	50
  September 1947	Southeast FL/Southeast LA/MS	4	51
  August 1954 - CAROL	Northeast U.S.	3	60
  October 1954 - HAZEL	SC/NC	4	95
  September 1960 - DONNA	FL/Eastern U.S.	4	50
  September 1965 - BETSY	Southeast FL/Southeast LA	3	75
  September 1999 - FLOYD	Mid-Atlantic/Northeast U.S.	2	56

   

 Deadliest Hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin since 1886  

• 1,000 or more deaths
  • August 1893
  • October 1893
  • August 1899
  • September 1900
  • August 1909
  • September 1928
  • September 1930
  • September 1931
  • November 1932
  • June 1934
  • October 1935
  • October 1954 - HAZEL
  • October 1963 - FLORA
  • September 1966 - INEZ
  • September 1974 - FIFI
  • September 1979 - DAVID
  • November 1994 - GORDON
  • October 1998 - MITCH