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List of United States hurricanes
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Continental United States hurricane strikes 1950-2007
The list of United States hurricanes includes all tropical cyclones officially recorded to have produced 
sustained winds of greater than 74 mph (118 km/h) in the United States, 
which is the minimum threshold for hurricane intensity. 

The list, which is sorted by U.S. state, begins in 1851 with the start of the official Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT), 
as provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division; 
the data from 1951 to 1979 is subject to change, due to the lack of official wind speed estimates during the time period. 
Since 1851, a total of 294 North Atlantic hurricanes produced hurricane-force winds in 19 states along the Atlantic coast. 
Some of these storms may not have made a direct landfall (i.e. remained just offshore) while producing hurricane-force winds on land; 
some of them may have weakened to a tropical storm or became extratropical before landfall 
but produced hurricane conditions on land while still a hurricane 
and some of them made landfall in an adjacent state 
but produced hurricane conditions over multiple states. 

This list does not include storms that only produced tropical storm conditions on land in the United States.

Additionally, three Pacific hurricanes struck Hawaii, 
and one Pacific tropical cyclone brought hurricane-force winds to California. 

The tables list hurricanes by category on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale,
 based on winds that occurred in each state.

A total of 294 Atlantic tropical cyclones have produced hurricane-force winds in every state along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, as well as Pennsylvania, Florida more than any other state.[1]

The earliest time in the year for a hurricane to strike the nation was June 9, which was set by Alma in 1966. The earliest major hurricane to strike the nation occurred in 1934, when an unnamed tropical cyclone made landfall on June 16. The latest in the year for a hurricane to strike the nation was on November 24 with Hurricane Iwa in Hawaii; for the Atlantic basin the latest was on November 22, which was set by Hurricane Kate in 1985. The latest in the year for a major hurricane to strike the nation was from the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane, which moved ashore on October 25.[1]

The 1990s were the most active decade for the United States, with a total of 31 hurricanes affecting the nation. By contrast, the least active decade was the 1860s and 1970s, each with a total of only 15 hurricanes affecting the United States. A total of 33 seasons on record passed without an Atlantic hurricane affecting the country—the most recent of which was the 2015 season. Seven Atlantic hurricanes affected the country in the 1886 season, which was the year with the most United States hurricanes.[1]

Impact
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar. It was one of only four hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale; the others were Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, and Andrew in 1992, which had a landfalling pressure of 932 mbar, 900 mbar, and 922 mbar, respectively. Hurricanes Katrina in 2005 and Maria in 2017 are tied as the third most intense hurricanes to strike the country, each with a pressure of 920 mbar.[2]

The 1900 Galveston hurricane was the deadliest hurricane in the history of the United States, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people. The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused at least 2,500 fatalities, and in 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed approximately 1,800 people. In the 1893 season, two hurricanes each caused over 1,000 deaths.[2]

Not accounting for inflation, a total of fourteen Atlantic hurricanes have resulted in over US$10 billion in damage, including three each from the 2004, 2005, and 2017 seasons, respectively. The costliest hurricanes were Katrina in 2005 and Harvey in 2017, both with uninflated damage totals amounting to US$125 billion. Of the 30 costliest Atlantic hurricanes, 21 have occurred after the year 2000.[2]

A 2010 study published in Natural Hazards Review, a journal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, "Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United State: 1900-2005" (PDF), analyzed storm-related property damage figures from 1900 through 2005 adjusted ("normalized") for inflation, wealth and population factors over time. The study found that: 1) Using normalized figures, hurricane-related damages steadily increased from 1900 to 2005; 2) Based on the adjusted data, Hurricane Katrina is the third-most destructive storm in U.S. history. The second-ranking storm in terms of property damage is the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, with losses between $140–157 billion in 2005 dollars; 3) While 1996–2005 was the second-most costly period for storm-related damages, the preceding periods of 1976–1985 and 1986–1995 were "anomalously benign," accounting for only 10% of all storm damage reported since 1900; 4) Approximately 85% of all storm-related damages occur in the months of August (35%) and September (50%).[3]

States bordering the Atlantic Ocean
The category listed for each state indicates the maximum category of sustained winds that was recorded or analyzed to have occurred in that state. It is not necessarily the category of the storm at the time of landfall or closest approach (if the strongest winds were occurring elsewhere or only over water at the time).