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The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was a devastating and extremely active Atlantic hurricane season, and the costliest on record, with a damage total of at least $294.92 billion ( USD ). [nb 1] The season featured 17 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and 6 major hurricanes. [nb 2] Most of the season's damage was due to hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and ...
Hurricane Matthew was an extremely powerful Atlantic hurricane which caused catastrophic ... with US$2.8 billion in damage and 674 deaths, ... In April 2017, North ...
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual tropical cyclone season in the north Atlantic Ocean. This Atlantic hurricane season saw above-normal activity; [nb 1] it was the seventh most active season on record and the most active since 2005. [2] The season officially began on June 1, 2017 and ended on November 30, 2017.
Hurricane Betsy was an intense, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that brought widespread damage to areas of Florida and the central United States Gulf Coast in September 1965. The storm's erratic nature, coupled with its intensity and minimized preparation time contributed to making Betsy the first tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin ...
The 2017 Pacific hurricane season was a moderately active season with eighteen named storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes. Unlike the three previous hyperactive seasons ( 2014 , 2015 , and 2016 ), the season was significantly less active in terms of ACE and most storms that existed through this basin were either weak or short-lived.
Phoenix, Arizona, US. The 5 Oct. hailstones - some exceeding 2 inches in diameter - pounded cars, smashed windows and blasted apart roof tiles and shingles. The storm caused more than $2.7 billion in property damage, putting Arizona atop the 2010 list of states with the most insured-property losses.
Hurricane Maria. Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths. [1] [2] It is the deadliest and costliest hurricane to strike the island of Puerto Rico, and is the deadliest hurricane ...
The costliest hurricanes were Katrina in 2005 and Harvey in 2017, both with uninflated damage totals amounting to US$125 billion. Of the 41 Atlantic hurricanes with damages exceeding $1.01 billion after accounting for inflation (2017 dollars), 20 have occurred after the year 2000, though this list does not include 2018's Michael nor Florence.