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