List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes

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Damage in Long Beach, Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.

This is a list of costliest Atlantic hurricanes. Hurricanes, as defined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are tropical cyclones—a warm-core, non-frontal synoptic-scale cyclone, originating over tropical or subtropical waters with organized deep convection and a closed surface wind circulation about a well-defined center—in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or eastern Pacific, in which the maximum 1-minute sustained surface wind exceeds 64 kts (74 mph) or greater. The hurricanes on the list below depict the severity of the damage the system has caused. Typically, if a hurricane has caused significant damage to a particular location, it is requested to be retired by the region the system affected. The costliest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic was Hurricane Katrina, which struck the coastline of Louisiana in August 2005, causing $108 billion (2005 USD) in property damage. The most recent, costliest hurricane was Hurricane Sandy, which struck the coastlines of Puerto Rico, North Carolina, New Jersey, and New York, causing $68 billion in total cost (2012 USD) in late October 2012.

Overall costliest[edit]

Costliest Atlantic hurricanes
Billions Name Year References
$125.0 Hurricane Katrina 2005 [1]
$68.0 Hurricane Sandy 2012 [1]
$37.5 Hurricane Ike 2008 [2][3][4]
$29.2 Hurricane Wilma 2005 [5][6][7][8]
$26.5 Hurricane Andrew 1992 [9]
$23.0 Hurricane Ivan 2004 [2][10][11]
$16.6 Hurricane Irene 2011 [12][13][14]
$16.0 Hurricane Charley 2004 [2][11]
$12.0 Hurricane Rita 2005 [15]
$10.2 Hurricane Gilbert 1988 [16]
$9.7 Hurricane Georges 1998 [2][17][18][19][20][21]
$9.5 Hurricane Frances 2004 [2]
$9.0 Tropical Storm Allison 2001 [2]
$8.6 Hurricane Jeanne 2004 [2][11][22][23]
$8.5 Hurricane Hugo 1989 [2][24]
$8.2 Hurricane Mitch 1998 [25][26][27][28][29]
$6.9 Hurricane Floyd 1999 [2]
$6.6 Hurricane Gustav 2008 [2][3]
$5.4 Hurricane Isabel 2003 [2]
$5.1 Hurricane Opal 1995 [2]
$4.1 Hurricane Fran 1996 [2]
$3.9 Hurricane Stan 2005 [23][30]
$2.5 Hurricane Dennis 2005 [2][31]
$2.3 Hurricane Isaac 2012 [32]
$2.3 Hurricane Frederic 1979 [33]
$2.1 Hurricane Agnes 1972 [2]
$2.0 Hurricane Alicia 1983 [2]
$1.8 Hurricane Fifi 1974 [34]
$1.5 Hurricane David 1979 [35][36]
$1.5 Hurricane Juan 1985 [2]
$1.4 Hurricane Camille 1969 [2]
$1.4 Hurricane Betsy 1965 [2][37]
$1.3 Hurricane Isidore 2002 [38]
$1.2 Hurricane Elena 1985 [2]
$1.1 Hurricane Dolly 2008 [39]

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

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