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| $108.0 || [[Hurricane Katrina]] || [[2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season|2005]] ||<ref>{{cite report|author=Knabb, Richard D|author2=Rhome, Jamie R|author3=Brown, Daniel P|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL122005_Katrina.pdf|format=PDF|title=Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Katrina: August 23&nbsp;– 30, 2005|work=National Hurricane Center|accessdate=November 27, 2012|publisher=United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service|date=December 20, 2005}}</ref><ref name="costliest">{{cite report|work=National Hurricane Center/National Climatic Data Center|author=Blake, Eric S|author2=Landsea, Christopher W|author3=Gibney, Ethan J|archivedate=November 27, 2012|deadurl=no|date=August 2011|title=Costliest U.S. Hurricanes 1900 - 2010 (unadjusted)|type=NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS NHC-6|accessdate=November 27, 2012|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/nws-nhc-6.pdf|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CUXzlU54|publisher=United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service|page=11}}</ref>
| $108.0 || [[Hurricane Katrina]] || [[2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season|2005]] ||<ref>{{cite report|author=Knabb, Richard D|author2=Rhome, Jamie R|author3=Brown, Daniel P|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL122005_Katrina.pdf|format=PDF|title=Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Katrina: August 23&nbsp;– 30, 2005|work=National Hurricane Center|accessdate=November 27, 2012|publisher=United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service|date=December 20, 2005}}</ref><ref name="costliest">{{cite report|work=National Hurricane Center/National Climatic Data Center|author=Blake, Eric S|author2=Landsea, Christopher W|author3=Gibney, Ethan J|archivedate=November 27, 2012|deadurl=no|date=August 2011|title=Costliest U.S. Hurricanes 1900 - 2010 (unadjusted)|type=NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS NHC-6|accessdate=November 27, 2012|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/nws-nhc-6.pdf|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CUXzlU54|publisher=United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service|page=11}}</ref>
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| $80.0 || [[Hurricane Sandy]] || [[2012 Atlantic hurricane season|2012]] ||<ref>{{cite news|author=Wasson, Erik|title=Sandy blasts $80B hole through debt talks|url=www.http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/269931-lawmakers-press-for-giant-sandy-bill-amid-fiscal-cliff-talks|accessdate=November 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Cost of Sandy's Destruction in NY $33 Billion: Cuomo|date=November 8, 2012|accessdate=November 28, 2012|publisher=CBNC|work=Associated Press}}</ref>
| $80.0 || [[Hurricane Sandy]] || [[2012 Atlantic hurricane season|2012]] ||<ref>{{cite news|author=Wasson, Erik|title=Sandy blasts $80B hole through debt talks|url=http://www.http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/269931-lawmakers-press-for-giant-sandy-bill-amid-fiscal-cliff-talks|accessdate=November 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Cost of Sandy's Destruction in NY $33 Billion: Cuomo|date=November 8, 2012|accessdate=November 28, 2012|publisher=CBNC|work=Associated Press}}</ref>
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| $31.2<!--Includes the US & Cuba --> || [[Hurricane Ike]] || [[2008 Atlantic hurricane season|2008]] ||<ref name="costliest"/><ref name="WMOCuba">{{cite report|publisher=World Meteorological Organization|accessdate=November 27, 2012|title=Report on 2008 Hurricane Season in Cuba |url=http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/tcp/Meetings/HC31/documents/Doc.4.2.8_Cuba.doc}}</ref>
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Damage in Gulfport, 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. All hurricanes below, with the exception of Sandy, have been retired by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for causing significant damage in the Atlantic basin. 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, top-costliest hurricane is Hurricane Sandy, which struck the coastlines of Puerto Rico, North Carolina, New Jersey, and New York, causing over $65 billion in total cost (2012 USD) in October 2012.

Overall costliest

Costliest Atlantic hurricanes
Billions Name Year References
$108.0 Hurricane Katrina 2005 [1][2]
$80.0 Hurricane Sandy 2012 [3][4]
$31.2 Hurricane Ike 2008 [2][5]
$29.2 Hurricane Wilma 2005 [6][7][8][9]
$26.5 Hurricane Andrew 1992 [10]
$23.0 Hurricane Ivan 2004 [2][11][12]
$16.6 Hurricane Irene 2011 [13][14][15]
$16.0 Hurricane Charley 2004 [2][12]
$12.0 Hurricane Rita 2005 [2]
$10.4 Hurricane Frances 2004 [12][2][16]
$10.2 Hurricane Gilbert 1988 [17]
$9.7 Hurricane Georges 1998 [2][18][19][20][21][22]
$9.0 Tropical Storm Allison 2001 [2]
$8.6 Hurricane Jeanne 2004 [2][12][23][24]
$8.5 Hurricane Hugo 1989 [25]
$8.2 Hurricane Mitch 1998 [26][27][28][29][30]
$6.6 Hurricane Gustav 2008 [2][5]
$4.1 Hurricane Fran 1996 [2]
$2.1 Hurricane Agnes 1972 [2]
$2.3 Hurricane Frederic 1979 [2]
$1.8 Hurricane Fifi 1974 [31]
$1.4 Hurricane Camille 1969 [2]
$1.4 Hurricane Betsy 1965 [2][32]
$1.3 Hurricane Isidore 2002 [33]
Costliest Cuban hurricanes
Rank Hurricane Season Damage Refs
1 Irma 2017 $13.2 billion [34]
2 Ike 2008 $7.3 billion [35]
3 Matthew 2016 $2.58 billion [36]
4 Gustav 2008 $2.1 billion [35]
5 Michelle 2001 $2 billion [20]
Sandy 2012 [37]
7 Dennis 2005 $1.5 billion [38]
8 Ivan 2004 $1.2 billion [39]
9 Charley 2004 $923 million [39]
10 Wilma 2005 $700 million [40]

See also

References

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