HURRICANES: MAJOR STORMS SINCE 1900

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Year	Name (if any)	Category (at landfall)	Location	Deaths and Damages
1900	Hurricane	4	Galveston, Tex.	6,000
1928	Hurricane	4	Caribbean/S. Fla.	4,000
1930	Hurricane	4-5	Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic	2,000
1938	Hurricane	3	New England	600; $306 million
1954	Hazel	4	N.C./S.C.	1,173; $281 million
1955	Diane	1	N.C./New England	184; $1.7 billion
1963	Flora	3	Haiti/Cuba	7,000
1969	Camille	5	Miss./La.	256; $1.42 billion
1974	Fifi	3	Honduras	8,000; $1 billion
1979	David	2	Caribbean/Eastern U.S.	1,205; $1 billion
1988	Gilbert	5	Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico	800; $10 billion
1989	Hugo	4	Caribbean/N.C./S.C.	60; $10 billion
1992	Andrew	5	Bahamas/S. Fla./La.	38; $21 billion
1992	Iniki	4	Kauai, Hawaii	6; $3 billion
1997	Pauline	4	Mexico	230
1998	Georges	3	Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico	443; $2.5 billion
1998	Mitch	5	Honduras/Nicaragua	11,000
1999	Floyd	2	N.C./New England	56; $3-6 billion
2003	Isabel	2	N.C./ Mid-Atlantic	17; $3 billion
2004	Charley	4	Fla.	25; $7.4 billion
2005	Katrina	3	La./Miss./Ala.	at least 1,300; $80 billion
2005	Rita	3	La./Tex.	7; $6 billion
2005	Wilma	3	Yucatán Peninsula/Caribbean/Fla.	38; $10 billion

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