The deadliest hurricanes to hit the continental United States since 1900, listed by name or nickname, location, year, category and number of deaths, according to the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. Hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean were first named in 1950. Categories range from 1, the least severe, to 5.
1. "Galveston" (Texas), 1900, 4, at least 8,000
2. "Lake Okeechobee" (South Florida), 1928, 4, at least 2,500
3. Unnamed (Florida Keys, South Texas), 1919, 4, estimated to be at least 600, most at sea
4. "New England" (New York, Rhode Island), 1938, 3, 600
5. "Labor Day" (Florida Keys), 1935, 5, 408
6. Audrey (Southwest Louisiana, North Texas), 1957, 4, 390
6. "Great Atlantic" (Northeast United States), 1944, 3, 390, most at sea
8. "Grand Isle" (Louisiana), 1909, 4, 350
9. Unnamed (New Orleans), 1915, 4, 275
9. Unnamed (Galveston, Texas), 1915, 4, 275
11. Camille (Mississippi, Louisiana), 1969, 5, 256
12. "Great Miami" (Florida, Mississippi, Alabama), 1926, 4, 243
13. Diane (Northeast United States), 1955, 1, 184
14. Unnamed (Southeast Florida), 1906, 2, 164
15. Unnamed (Mississippi, Alabama, Florida), 1906, 3, 134
16. Agnes (Northeast United States), 1972, 1, 122
17. Hazel (South Carolina, North Carolina), 1954, 4, 95
18. Betsy (Southeast Florida, Southeast Louisiana), 1965, 3, 75
19. Carol (Northeast United States), 1954, 3, 60
20. Floyd (Eastern United States), 1999, 2, 57
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