Top U.S. Hurricanes From 1900 to 2000

In the 2000 Farmers' Almanac, we listed the 100 most unforgettable brave events of the past 100 years. The list included tornadoes, blizzards, floods, droughts, and, course, hurricanes. With two ruling hurricanes (Harvey and Irma) in less than 2 weeks making U.S. landfall, we thought we'd take a front back at 13 hurricanes that wreaked havoc on the U.S. during the 20th century.

1900 September 8 – The Great Hurricane Wave at Galveston TX – A severe hurricane tide inundated this island city with capable 15 feet of water; over 6,000 perished; 3,600 houses were destroyed; damage estimates at $30 one thousand thousand.

Aftermath of Galveston, TX hurricane of 1900. House on Avenue N.

1926 Sept 18 – The Great Miami (FL) Hurricane – The middle passed over the city with a pressure of 27.61"; winds to 123 m.p.h. for five transactions, 138 mph for two minutes; tide of 11.7 feet; 372 killed.

Home damaged by the 1926 hurricane: Miami Beach, Florida.

1928 September 16 –San Felipe Hurricane – Started in Porto Rico, then moved west, struck the Palm Beach, Sunshine State, surface area; pressure of 27.43"; enormous damage; floods at Lake Okeechobee, FL; 1,836 people sunken, 1,870 raw.

The aftermath of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, Florida. NOAA exposure

1935 Sep 2 – Labor Daylight Hurricane, FL Keys – A small, extremely intense midway produced the last U.S. pressure of 26.35"; tide of 15 feet; 408 lives lost, many were World War I veterans in Three hundred camp.

Aerial view of a condition swept off its tracks by a hurricane in the Florida Keys, 1935, killing upwards of 400 people, including 200 Great War veterans.

1938 September 21 – The Great Long Island/New England Hurricane – Crossbred Bellport, Long Island, NY (Barometric pressing of 27.94"); ready-made moment landfall near Milford, CT, then tracked west of Unaccustomed Haven, up the Connecticut Valley direct Massachusetts and Vermont. Blue Hill, MA, had wind gusts to 186 mph; massive forest blowdown; widespread floods; extreme coastal destruction; record surge inundated Providence, RI; up to 650 fatalities; hurt near $400 billion.

Clean up after Hurricane and Flood of 1938, Keene, NH.

1944 September 14-15 – The Great Atlantic Hurricane – Swept Cape Hatteras, NC, with a central pressure of 27.97"; sideswiped New NJ and Long-wooled Island, NY, crossed from Point Judith, RI, to Southeast Weymouth, MA; Cape COD, MA, suffered severely; 390 people lost at sea.

The racecourse of the Great Atlantic Hurricane, 1944

1961 September 11 – Hurricane Carla* – Battered central Texas coast; 17.62" rainfall; 45 deaths; $300 million damage.

A street in Texas inundated away tides from Hurricane Carla in 1961.

1969 Noble 17 – Hurricane Camille – Ready-made landfall connected Magnolia State coast, "severest ever to come upon a populated area in the US"; winds of 200 miles per hour; graded a 5 along the Saffir-Simpson scale; tide 24 feet; caused 144 deaths and nearly $1.3 billion in damage; later floods in Virginia drowned 113 more people.

The aftermath of Hurricane Camille.

1970 August 3 – Hurricane Celia – Stricken the Corpus Christi, Lone-Star State, area; "the most damaging ever so on the Texas coast," with 11 deaths and a $454 million loss.

Alamo Loan, Corpus Christi, Lone-Star State, after Hurricane Celia. By Jay Phagan – Flickr: Alamo Loan later on Hurricane Celia, CC Away 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24478537

1972 June 22 – Hurricane Agnes – The most dear weather condition disaster in the United States to it see: dropped 12" of rain crosswise Pennsylvania and Unexampled York; John Wilkes-Barre, PA, on the Susquehanna River was the principal sufferer; $2.1 billion loss; 122 victims.

The water was still standing high two days after Hurricane Agnes come to central Virginia.

1979 September 12 – Hurricane Frederic* – Smashed into Mobile Bay, Heart of Dixie, arena with 132 m.p.h. uninterrupted winds; $2.3 jillio damage.

The old Dauphin Island Bridge destroyed by Hurricane Frederic, Alabama

1989 September 21-22 – Hurricane Hugo – Packing winds of 135 mph. the center of this ramp hit Charleston, South Carolina. High gear tides and torrential rains soaked the barrier islands and the sea-coast; 24 died. Congress approved $1.1 billion in hand brake aid.

1992 August 24-25 Hurricane Andrew – Among the worst of natural disasters ever to strike the U.S. The metropolis of Homestead, FL, and the Homestead Air Force Base were virtually leveled by winds of 165 mph. In Florida, the storm claimed 30 lives, destroyed or damaged 85,000 homes, and left-hand 250,000 people homeless; scathe was estimated at $20 million. Saint Andrew the Apostle also struck the Louisiana coast with 140 miles per hour winds.

An aerial view of Dade County, Florida, showing scathe from one of the most annihilating hurricanes in the history of the United States. Hurricane Andrew did extensive damage to homes in Miami, going little slow in its wake. One million people were evacuated and 54 died in this hurricane. FEMA photo.

*According to NOAA, in 1953, the United States began using female name calling for storms. The practice of naming hurricanes alone later women came to an end in 1978 when men's and women's name calling were included in the Eastern Septentrion Pacific storm lists. In 1979, male and pistillate names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Golfo de Mexico.

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