Storm Center
Deadliest storms
The 20 deadliest tropical cyclones to strike the U.S. mainland from 1851 to 2006:
• 1. Galveston, Texas (1900): Category 4, killed more than 8,000.
• 2. Lake Okeechobee, Fla. (1928): Category 4, killed 2500.
• 3. Katrina, Louisiana, Mississippi (2005): Category 3, killed 1,500.
• 4. Cheniere Caminanda (1893): Category 4, killed 1100-1400.
• 5. Sea Islands, South Carolina, Georgia (1893): Category 3, killed 1000-2000.
• 6. Georgia, South Carolina, (1881): Category 2, killed 700.
• 7. Hurricane Audrey (1957): Category 4, killed 416.
• 8. Florida Keys (1935): Category 5, killed 408.
• 9. Louisiana (1856): Category 4, killed 400.
• 10. Florida, Mississippi, Alabama (1926): Category 4, killed 372.
• 11. Grand Isle, Louisiana, (1909): Category 3, killed 350.
• 12. Keys, Texas (1919): Category 4, killed 287.
• 13. New Orleans, Louisiana (1915): Category 4, killed 275.
• 13. Galveston, Texas (1915): Category 4, killed 275.
• 15. New England (1938): Category 3, killed 256.
• 15. Hurricane Camille, Mississippi, Southeast Louisiana, and Virginia (1969): Category 5, killed 256.
• 17. Hurricane Diane, Northeast U.S.(1955): Category 1, killed 184.
• 18. Georgia South Carolina, North Carolina, (1898): Category 4, killed 179.
• 19. Texas(1875): Category 3, killed 176.
• 20. Southeast Florida (1906): Category 3, killed 164.
• Source: National Hurricane Center
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