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{{mergefrom|Effects of Hurricane Dean in the Greater Antilles|Effects of Hurricane Dean in the Lesser Antilles|Effects of Hurricane Dean in Mexico|date=May 2025}}
{{short description|Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2007}}
{{Other hurricanes|List of storms named Dean|the Atlantic hurricane of 2007}}
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{{Infobox weather event
| image = Dean 2007-08-21 0845Z.jpg
| caption = Dean at peak intensity making landfall on August 21
| formed = August 13, 2007
| low = August 23, 2007
| dissipated = August 27, 2007
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| winds = 150
| pressure = 905
}}{{Infobox weather event/Effects
| year = 2007
| fatalities = 45<!--40 direct, 5 indirect-->
| damage = 1661000000
| areas = [[Lesser Antilles]], [[Greater Antilles]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Honduras]], [[Belize]], [[Guatemala]], [[Mexico]], [[Gulf Coast of the United States]], [[Southwestern United States]]
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| season = [[2007 Atlantic hurricane season]]
| related = {{Hurricane Dean related}}
| series = Hurricane Dean
}}

'''Hurricane Dean''' was the strongest [[tropical cyclone]] of the [[2007 Atlantic hurricane season]]. It was the most intense [[North Atlantic hurricane]] since [[Hurricane Wilma]] of the [[2005 Atlantic hurricane season|2005 season]], and is tied with [[Hurricane Mitch]] of the [[1998 Atlantic hurricane season|1998 season]] for the ninth most intense hurricane in the Atlantic basin in terms of pressure. Additionally, it was the fourth most intense Atlantic hurricane to make [[landfall]] on record in the basin, behind Hurricanes [[Hurricane Camille|Camille]] and [[Hurricane Gilbert|Gilbert]], which made landfall at 900 mbar. A [[Cape Verde hurricane]] that formed on August 13, 2007, Dean took a west-northwest path from the eastern Atlantic Ocean through the [[Saint Lucia Channel]] and into the [[Caribbean Sea|Caribbean]]. It strengthened into a [[Category 3 hurricane|major hurricane]],{{#tag:ref|A major hurricane is a hurricane that ranks as Category&nbsp;3 or higher on the [[Saffir–Simpson scale]].|group="nb"}} reaching Category&nbsp;5 status on the [[Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale]] before passing just south of [[Jamaica]] on August 20. The storm made landfall on the [[Yucatán Peninsula]] on August&nbsp;21 at peak intensity. It crossed the peninsula and emerged into the [[Bay of Campeche]] weakened, but still remained a hurricane. It strengthened briefly before making a second landfall near [[Tecolutla]] in the Mexican state of [[Veracruz]] on August 22. Dean drifted to the northwest, weakening into a remnant [[low-pressure area|low]] which dissipated uneventfully over the southwestern United States. Dean was the second-most intense tropical cyclone worldwide of 2007 in terms of pressure, only behind [[Cyclone George]] in the Australian region, and tied with [[Hurricane Felix|Felix]] as the most intense worldwide in terms of 1-minute sustained winds.

The hurricane's intense winds, waves, rains and storm surge were responsible for at least 45&nbsp;deaths across ten countries and caused estimated damages of US$1.66&nbsp;billion. First impacting the islands of the [[Lesser Antilles]], Dean's path through the Caribbean devastated agricultural crops, particularly those of [[Martinique]] and [[Jamaica]]. Upon reaching Mexico, Hurricane Dean was a Category&nbsp;5 storm, but it missed major population centers and its exceptional Category&nbsp;5 strength landfall caused no deaths and less damage than in the Caribbean islands it passed as a Category&nbsp;2 storm.

Through the affected regions, clean up and repair took months to complete. Donations solicited by international aid organizations joined national funds in clearing roads, rebuilding houses, and replanting destroyed crops. In Jamaica, where the damage was worst, [[banana]] production did not return to pre-storm levels for over a year. Mexico's tourist industry, too, took almost a year to rebuild its damaged [[cruise ship]] infrastructure.

Dean was the first hurricane to make landfall in the Atlantic basin at Category&nbsp;5 intensity since [[Hurricane Andrew]] on August 24, 1992.<ref name="td4disc33">{{cite web|author=Pasch/Brown|date=August 21, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Thirty Three|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 20, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.033.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312213225/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.033.shtml|archive-date=March 12, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Dean's Category&nbsp;5 landfall was in a sparsely populated area and thus far less damaging than Andrew's, even though Dean was much larger, but its long swath of damage resulted in its name retirement from the [[World Meteorological Organization]]'s [[Atlantic hurricane naming lists]].

== Meteorological history ==
{{Main|Meteorological history of Hurricane Dean}}
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On August 11, 2007, a [[tropical wave]] moved off the west coast of Africa,<ref name="TWOAT081111">{{Cite FTP |author=Knabb |date=August 11, 2007 |title=August 11 Tropical Weather Outlook (1130) |access-date=August 14, 2007 |server=National Hurricane Center |url-status=dead |url=ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/weather/tropical/Outlook-A/2007081115.ABNT20 }}</ref> and, encountering favorable conditions,<ref name="TWOAT07081205">{{Cite FTP |author=Rhome |date=August 12, 2007 |title=August 12 Tropical Weather Outlook (0530) |access-date=August 14, 2007 |server=National Hurricane Center |url-status=dead |url=ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/weather/tropical/Outlook-A/2007081209.ABNT20 }}</ref> quickly developed into [[Tropical Depression]] Four, about 520&nbsp;miles (835&nbsp;km) [[west-southwest]] of [[Cape Verde]] on August 13.<ref name="TWOAT07081311">{{Cite FTP |author=Knabb/Blake|date=August 13, 2007|title=August 13 Tropical Weather Outlook (1130)|access-date=August 14, 2007|server=National Hurricane Center|url-status=dead|url=ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/weather/tropical/Outlook-A/2007081315.ABNT20}}</ref> The depression moved briskly westward,<ref name="td4disc3">{{cite web|author=Brown/Franklin|date=August 13, 2007|title=Tropical Depression Four Discussion Three|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 14, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.003.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103034602/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.003.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Dean at 1500&nbsp;[[UTC]] on August 14.<ref name="td4disc5">{{cite web|author=Avila|date=August 14, 2007|title=Tropical Storm Dean Discussion Five|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 14, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.005.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103021520/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.005.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The storm's intensity continued to build<ref name="td4disc7">{{cite web|author=Brown|date=August 14, 2007|title=Tropical Storm Dean Discussion Seven|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 15, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.007.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309113748/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.007.shtml|archive-date=March 9, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> although dry air and cooler air inflow from the north were slowing structural development. [[Rainband#Tropical cyclones|Ragged bands]] formed on August 15<ref name="td4disc8">{{cite web|author=Beven|date=August 15, 2007|title=Tropical Storm Dean Discussion Eight|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 15, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.008.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103024247/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.008.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and the formation of a partial [[Eye (cyclone)|eyewall]] was observed later that day.<ref name="td4disc10">{{cite web|author=Blake|date=August 15, 2007|title=Tropical Storm Dean Discussion Ten|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 15, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.010.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309113514/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.010.shtml|archive-date=March 9, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

Intensification continued,<ref name="td4disc11">{{cite web|author=Brown|date=August 15, 2007|title=Tropical Storm Dean Discussion Eleven|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 16, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.011.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309113544/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.011.shtml|archive-date=March 9, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and the storm was upgraded to Hurricane Dean at 5&nbsp;am [[Eastern Daylight Time|EDT]] (0900 UTC) August 16.<ref name="td4disc12">{{cite web|author=Beven|date=August 16, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Twelve|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 16, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.012.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103010432/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.012.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The deep-layered ridge to the north continued to steer the system west, towards the Caribbean Sea.<ref name="td4disc13">{{cite web|author=Blake|date=August 16, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Thirteen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 16, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.013.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103034923/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.013.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The storm quickly strengthened to a Category&nbsp;2 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale.<ref name="td4disc14">{{cite web|author=Avila/Blake|date=August 16, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Fourteen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 16, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.014.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103033231/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.014.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="td4disc15">{{cite web|author=Franklin|date=August 16, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Fifteen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.015.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103022029/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.015.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The storm's development slowed slightly but<ref name="td4disc16">{{cite web|author=Beven|date=August 17, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Sixteen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 16, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.016.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103033834/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.016.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> a [[hurricane hunters|reconnaissance aircraft]] discovered a closed eyewall on August 17 as the storm passed through the Lesser Antilles.<ref name="td4disc17">{{cite web|author=Avila|date=August 17, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Seventeen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.017.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103014244/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.017.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Data from the aircraft indicated that Hurricane Dean had strengthened to a Category&nbsp;3 hurricane<ref name="td4disc18">{{cite web|author=Avila/Mainelli|date=August 17, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Eighteen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.018.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103023600/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.018.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and its trailing bands were still over the Lesser Antilles.<ref name="td4disc19">{{cite web|author=Avila|date=August 17, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Nineteen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.019.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103025504/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.019.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> During the evening of August 17, Dean strengthened into a Category&nbsp;4 hurricane<ref name="td4disc19a">{{cite web|author=Knabb|date=August 17, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Intermediate Advisory Nineteen 'A'|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public_a.019.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102220433/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public_a.019.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and continued to steadily grow in both size and intensity through the night.<ref name="td4disc20">{{cite web|author=Knabb|date=August 17, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Twenty|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.020.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103024026/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.020.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> On August 18 the presence of a double eyewall was noted,<ref name="td4disc23">{{cite web|author=Avila|date=August 18, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Twenty Three|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 18, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.023.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103035720/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.023.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> indicating an [[Eye (cyclone)#Eyewall replacement cycles|eyewall replacement cycle]] and causing short term fluctuations in intensity.<ref name="td4disc22">{{cite web|author=Avila|date=August 18, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Twenty Two|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 18, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.022.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103011629/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.022.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> These fluctuations did not affect the storm's well defined satellite presentation.<ref name="td4disc23"/> Operationally, Dean was thought to have only been a Category&nbsp;4 on the 18th, but post-storm analysis shows that Dean had become a 165&nbsp;miles per hour (265&nbsp;km/h) Category&nbsp;5 on that day. Dean weakened very slightly on the morning of August 19 as it finished the eyewall replacement cycle and began to interact with the island of Jamaica.<ref name="td4disc25">{{cite web|author=Pasch/Brown|date=August 19, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Twenty Five|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 19, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.025.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103020325/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.025.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

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Hurricane Dean passed south of Jamaica on the evening of August 19<ref name="td4disc27">{{cite web|author=Franklin/Rhome|date=August 19, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Twenty Seven|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 20, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.027.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102210145/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.027.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and began to intensify again that night.<ref name="td4public28">{{cite web|author=Blake|date=August 19, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Twenty Eight|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 20, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.028.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103014754/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.028.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Its eyewall replacement cycle was thought to be completed.<ref name="td4disc28">{{cite web|author=Knabb|date=August 19, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Twenty Eight|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 20, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.028.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193046/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.028.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> A concentric eyewall was briefly observed again on the morning of August 20, but did not last long. The hurricane, still tracking west-northwest under the influence of a strengthening deep-layered high-pressure system to the north, moved over waters with extremely high heat content and began to strengthen once again.<ref name="td4disc29">{{cite web|author=Pasch/Brown|date=August 20, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Twenty Nine|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 20, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.029.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193030/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.029.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The eyewall became even better defined during the day,<ref name="td4disc30">{{cite web|author=Franklin|date=August 20, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Thirty|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 20, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.030.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102223211/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.030.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and, at 8:35&nbsp;pm [[Atlantic Standard Time|AST]] on August 20 (0035 August 21, UTC), Dean restrengthened to a [[List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes|Category 5]] hurricane, the highest rating on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale.<ref name="nhcupdate Cat5">{{cite web|author=Knabb|date=August 20, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Update|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 20, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.update.08210034.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193236/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.update.08210034.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> It made landfall as a Category&nbsp;5 storm in [[Quintana Roo]]'s [[Costa Maya]] region, 40&nbsp;mi (65&nbsp;km) northeast of the border between Mexico and [[Belize]], and weakened on its way over land, reemerging on the western side of Yucatán as a Category&nbsp;1 storm.<ref>{{cite web|work=Sky News|date=August 21, 2007|url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Mudslide-Fears-After-Dean-Batters-Mexico/Article/20070831280605|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719004839/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Mudslide-Fears-After-Dean-Batters-Mexico/Article/20070831280605|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 19, 2012|title=Mudslide Fears After Dean Batters Mexico|access-date=March 12, 2014}}</ref> Dean regained strength as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico, and made its second landfall as a Category&nbsp;2 storm on August 22, at around 11:30 CDT, near [[Tecolutla, Veracruz]], to the south of [[Tuxpan]], where after it moved westward, losing strength and disintegrating over central Mexico. A small remnant circulation reached the Pacific Ocean,<ref name="td4disc40">{{cite web|author=Avila|date=August 22, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Discussion Forty|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 22, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.040.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193103/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.discus.040.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> eventually moving northwestward around an [[anticyclone]], roughly parallel to the Mexican coast and finally back inland over the southwestern United States,<ref>{{cite web|author=Stuart Hinson |date=August 26, 2007 |title=NCDC Event Record Details 679276 |publisher=National Climate Data Center |access-date=July 2, 2008 |url=http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~ShowEvent~679276 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520013158/http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~ShowEvent~679276 |archive-date=May 20, 2011  }}</ref> where it completely dissipated on August 27.<ref>{{cite web|author=Jackson|date=August 30, 2007|title=Surface Weather Map at 7:00&nbsp;am E.S.T.|publisher=National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Hydrometeorological Prediction Center|access-date=July 2, 2008|url=http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/index_20070830.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193050/http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/index_20070830.html|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Preparations==
Hurricane Dean's smooth and well-predicted track gave unusually advance warning to all of the nations in its path and allowed them time to prepare for the storm's impact.<ref name="TCR"/> In anticipation of Dean's impact, the nations of Central America and the Caribbean opened shelters,<ref name="IHT preps" /><ref name="reliefweb_cayman_2007-08-18_01" /><ref name="reliefweb_2007-08-19_02" /> readied emergency personnel,<ref name="BBC News August 17" />  and evacuated residents from vulnerable areas.<ref name="esmas state of emergency" /><ref name="reliefweb_cayman_2007-08-18_02" />

===Lesser Antilles===
{{main|Effects of Hurricane Dean in the Lesser Antilles}}
As Hurricane Dean approached the Lesser Antilles the local meteorological services issued [[Tropical cyclone warnings and watches|watches and warnings]], advising residents to prepare for the storm. Hurricane warnings were issued for [[St. Lucia]], [[Dominica]],<ref name="td4public12">{{cite web|author=Beven|date=August 16, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Twelve|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 16, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.012.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103022243/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.012.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>  Martinique and Guadeloupe and its dependencies.<ref name="td4public14">{{cite web|author=Blake/Avila|date=August 16, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Fourteen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 16, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.014.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103003437/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.014.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Hurricane watches were issued for [[Saba (island)|Saba]] and [[St. Eustatius]].<ref name="td4public11">{{cite web|author=Brown|date=August 15, 2007|title=Tropical Storm Dean Public Advisory Eleven|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 15, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.011.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103001059/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.011.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Tropical storm warnings were issued for [[Barbados]],<ref name="td4update12b">{{cite web|author=Pasch|date=August 16, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Tropical Cyclone Update|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 16, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.update.08161239.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103025244/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.update.08161239.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Antigua]], [[Barbuda]], [[Saint Kitts|St. Kitts]], [[Nevis]], and [[Saint Martin (island)|St. Maarten]]<ref name="td4public13">{{cite web|author=Blake/Avila|date=August 16, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Thirteen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 16, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.013.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103033236/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.013.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> [[St. Vincent and the Grenadines]],<ref name="td4public13"/> the [[United States Virgin Islands|U.S. Virgin Islands]],<ref name="td4public15">{{cite web|author=Franklin/Brown|date=August 16, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Fifteen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 16, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.015.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102201911/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.015.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[British Virgin Islands]].<ref name="td4public16">{{cite web|author=Beven|date=August 17, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Sixteen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.016.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103024459/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.016.shtml|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Tropical storm watches were issued for [[Sint Maarten]],<ref name="td4public11"/> [[Saint Vincent (island)|St. Vincent]], Grenada and its dependencies,<ref name="td4update12b"/> [[Montserrat]], and [[Anguilla]].<ref name="td4public14a">{{cite web |author=Franklin/Brown |date=August 16, 2007 |title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Fourteen A |publisher=National Hurricane Center |access-date=August 16, 2007 |url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public_a.014.shtml? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103021257/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public_a.014.shtml |archive-date=January 3, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Local authorities closed airports, set up shelters,<ref name="IHT preps">{{cite news |title=Hurricane Dean strengthens as it takes aim at Caribbean islands |url=http://savannahnow.com/michael-melia/2007-08-15/hurricane-dean-strengthens-it-takes-aim-caribbean-islands |date=August 15, 2007 |access-date=March 12, 2014 |author=Michael Melia |agency=[[Associated Press]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312082018/http://savannahnow.com/michael-melia/2007-08-15/hurricane-dean-strengthens-it-takes-aim-caribbean-islands |archive-date=March 12, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> and readied emergency service personnel.<ref name="BBC News August 17">{{cite news |date=August 17, 2007 |title=Hurricane hits eastern Caribbean |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=August 17, 2007 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6950626.stm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193327/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6950626.stm |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> Authorities in Martinique canceled a memorial to the victims of [[West Caribbean Airways Flight 708]] and began to set up shelters.<ref name="IHT preps"/> In Dominica, tourists were evacuated to concrete shelters and the vast majority of foreign medical students from the [[Ross University School of Medicine]] evacuated the island.<ref name="IHT preps" /> The government of Dominica also canceled leave for emergency service personnel<ref name="BBC News August 17"/> and evacuated Princess Margret Hospital, fearing that its roof might be vulnerable to the storm's winds.<ref name="paho_2007-08-21">{{cite web |author=PAHO/WHO Caribbean Program Coordination |date=August 23, 2007 |access-date=March 13, 2014 |publisher=Pan American Health Organization|title=Hurricane Dean in the Caribbean and Mexico, August 2007|url=http://www1.paho.org/English/DD/PED/HurricaneDean807.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101033808/http://www.paho.org/english/dd/ped/HurricaneDean807.htm|archive-date=November 1, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Martinique's main airport and both of St. Lucia's commercial airports closed when the last airplanes landed on the night of August 16 and the storm's outer [[rainband]]s began to sweep over the island.<ref name="wkrn_2007-08-17">{{cite news |author=Michael Melia |date=August 17, 2007 |title=Hurricane Takes Aim at Caribbean Islands |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=August 14, 2008 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081602951.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220065404/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081602951.html |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In anticipation of Dean's significant damage, several emergency response groups gathered funds and readied personnel. On August 14 the [[Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency]] (CDERA) placed its Regional Response Mechanism on standby and contacted the National Disaster Coordinators of all member states in the Lesser Antilles.<ref name="CDERA_summary_2007-08-22">{{cite web|author=CDERA|publisher=Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency|date=August 22, 2007|access-date=March 12, 2014|title=Summary of Impact of Hurricane "Dean" on CDERA Participating States|url=http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/E29328C01CE8F1C949257341000274B0-Full_Report.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909035731/http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/E29328C01CE8F1C949257341000274B0-Full_Report.pdf|archive-date=September 9, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> On August 15 the [[U.S. Agency for International Development]] (USAID) dispatched teams to Barbados, Dominica, and St. Kitts in advance of the hurricane to provide damage assessment should the hurricane affect those islands.<ref name="relief_web_USAID_2007-08-23">{{cite web|author=United States Agency for International Development (USAID)|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 23, 2007|access-date=March 12, 2014|title=USAID provides hurricane assistance to Dominica and St. Lucia|url=http://reliefweb.int/report/dominica/usaid-provides-hurricane-assistance-dominica-and-st-lucia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312092700/http://reliefweb.int/report/dominica/usaid-provides-hurricane-assistance-dominica-and-st-lucia|archive-date=March 12, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The Eastern Caribbean Donor Group convened a meeting on August 16 under the Chair of the Resident Representative United Nations Development Programme Barbados in anticipation that member states would require international assistance.<ref name="CDERA_summary_2007-08-22"/>

===Greater Antilles===
{{main|Effects of Hurricane Dean in the Greater Antilles}}
[[File:HurricaneDean.jpg|thumb|left|Hurricane Dean, with its prominent eye clearly visible, as photographed by [[astronaut]]s on the [[International Space Station]]]]
Hurricane warnings were issued for all of Jamaica,<ref name="td4public22">{{cite web|author=Avila|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Twenty Two|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 18, 2007|date=August 18, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.022.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193542/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.022.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> for [[Haiti]] from [[Port-au-Prince]] to the Dominican border,<ref name="td4public20">{{cite web|author=Knabb|date=August 17, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Twenty|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.020.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193530/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.020.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and for the [[Dominican Republic]] from [[Barahona Province|Barahona]] to the Haitian border.<ref name="td4public19a">{{cite web|author=Knabb|date=August 17, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Intermediate Advisory Nineteen A|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public_a.019.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102220433/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public_a.019.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Tropical Storm warnings were issued for the rest of [[Hispaniola]]<ref name="td4public17">{{cite web|author=Avila/Mainelli|date=August 17, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Seventeen|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.017.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102220615/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.017.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and for coastal Cuba between [[Camagüey Province|Camagüey]] and [[Guantánamo Province|Guantánamo]].<ref name="td4public22a">{{cite web|author=Avila|date=August 18, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Intermediate Advisory Twenty Two A|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 18, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public_a.022.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193312/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public_a.022.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Hundreds of thousands were evacuated from vulnerable low-lying and coastal areas<ref name="AFP_2007-08-19_jam">{{cite web|date=August 19, 2007|title=Monster hurricane bears down on Jamaica|agency=Agence France-Presse|access-date=August 19, 2007|url=http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/monster-hurricane-bears-down-on-jamaica-20070818-u22.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193013/http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/monster-hurricane-bears-down-on-jamaica-20070818-u22.html|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and disaster management programs were activated throughout the [[Greater Antilles]].<ref name="reliefweb_hispanola_2007-08-18_01">{{cite web|author=World Vision|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 18, 2007|access-date=August 25, 2007|title=As hurricane looms over Caribbean, relief teams prepare: World Vision positioning relief supplies for immediate response when storm hits Hispaniola|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-7679EY?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201359/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-7679EY?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="reliefweb_jam_2007-08-18_02">{{cite web|author=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 18, 2007|access-date=August 26, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean OCHA Situation Report No. 2|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/ACIO-768BH8?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195324/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/ACIO-768BH8?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="reliefweb_jam_2007-08-18_01">{{cite web|author=Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA)|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 18, 2007|access-date=August 26, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Situation Report #3|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SHES-767SCD?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200925/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SHES-767SCD?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref>

Jamaica, which was forecast to bear the brunt of Hurricane Dean, underwent the most extensive preparations. The Jamaican government executed long-standing evacuation plans, including converting the country's [[National Indoor Arena (Jamaica)|national arena]] into a shelter and relocating inmates from two [[Prison#Security levels|maximum security prisons]].<ref name="SF Gate preps"/> Political parties in the island suspended their campaigning for the August 27 national elections, to allow residents to prepare for the storm.<ref name="Globe-Mail preps">{{cite news |title=Hurricane Dean bears down on Jamaica |author=Carlos Barria |agency=Reuters|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/hurricane-dean-bears-down-on-jamaica/article1080694/ |date=August 18, 2007 |access-date=August 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081238/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/hurricane-dean-bears-down-on-jamaica/article1080694/ |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Curfews were put in place for parts of the island, while off-duty essential personnel were called back to work. More than 1,000 schools and churches were converted to emergency shelters, but residents only occupied 47 of them before the storm's arrival. Evidently the country's high crime rate led islanders to fear for their belongings should they abandon their homes.<ref name="Guardian_2007-08-19_prep">{{cite news |title=Hurricane Dean Pummels Jamaica |author=Howard Campbell |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 14, 2008 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081901365.html |date=August 20, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220063646/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081901365.html |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="BBC_2007-08-19_jam">{{cite news |date=August 19, 2007 |title=Jamaicans start to feel hurricane |publisher=BBC News |access-date=August 19, 2007 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6954296.stm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124191300/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6954296.stm |archive-date=January 24, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[UNICEF]] prepared 4 emergency health kits and 1,000 water containers and Copa Airlines agreed to fly the supplies to Jamaica on its scheduled August 22 flight, if possible. The [[World Food Program]] prepared food stocks in nearby Haiti, ready to move them to Jamaica if they were needed.<ref name="reliefweb_jam_2007-08-18_02"/> The [[United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination]] (UNDAC) team tried to reach Jamaica, but only one member arrived before all incoming flights were canceled.<ref name="reliefweb_jam_2007-08-18_02"/> The United States confirmed that it would offer aid if it was needed,<ref name="BBC August 19">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6953530.stm |title=Jamaica alert as Dean threatens |publisher=BBC News |date=August 19, 2007 |access-date=September 19, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193721/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6953530.stm |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[North-West Caribbean Donor Group]] met to decide what actions would need to be taken.<ref name="reliefweb_jam_2007-08-18_01"/>

[[File:HMS Portland F79 DNSD0502434.jpg|thumb|HMS ''Portland'' followed Dean through the Caribbean, prepared to support damaged islands if necessary.]]
The island of Hispaniola was also predicted to be heavily affected by the storm. Workers from World Vision supplied food, clean water, medicines and emergency generators in the southern provinces of the Dominican Republic, and in the southern departments of Haiti where hurricane warnings had been issued.<ref name="reliefweb_hispanola_2007-08-18_01"/> In low-lying areas, 1,580&nbsp;residents of the Dominican Republic and more than 1,000&nbsp;Haitians were evacuated as the storm approached.<ref name="AFP_2007-08-19_jam"/> Small craft were advised to stay in port, while Haiti's [[Toussaint Louverture International Airport]] was closed.<ref name="SF Gate preps">{{cite news | title = Hurricane Dean Gains Caribbean Strength | author = Jonathan Katz | publisher = [[Associated Press]] | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/18/international/i082151D73.DTL&feed=rss.news | date = August 18, 2007 | access-date = August 18, 2007 }}</ref>

The [[Cayman Islands]] were expected to suffer badly if Hurricane Dean passed too close, and mandatory evacuations were instigated for the low-lying [[Little Cayman]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1024423 |title=Little Cayman evacuated |work=Caymanian Compass |access-date=August 19, 2007 |date=August 18, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927013024/http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1024423 |archive-date=September 27, 2007  }}</ref><ref name=reliefweb_cayman_2007-08-18_02>{{cite web|author=Government of Cayman Islands|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 18, 2007|access-date=August 25, 2007|title=Cayman Islands: Mandatory evacuation|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LSGZ-768DGA?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195909/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LSGZ-768DGA?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> Tourists were forbidden from entering the island<ref name="Newswireca">{{cite news|url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2007/18/c8162.html|title=Cayman Islands Update&nbsp;— Hurricane Dean|access-date=August 19, 2007|date=August 18, 2007|publisher=Cayman Islands Department of Tourism|author=Laura Johnston|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201138/http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2007/18/c8162.html|archive-date=September 30, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> and extra flights were added to evacuate those that were already there.<ref name="BBC August 19"/><ref name="Newswireca"/> Schools and civic centers were converted to shelters on [[Grand Cayman]] and [[Cayman Brac]], and, despite the mandatory evacuation, one shelter was opened on Little Cayman for the residents who remained there.<ref name="reliefweb_cayman_2007-08-18_01">{{cite web|author=Government of Cayman Islands|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 18, 2007|access-date=August 25, 2007|title=Cayman Islands: Shelters open tomorrow|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LSGZ-768DEM?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201139/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LSGZ-768DEM?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> Expecting catastrophic damage, two [[Royal Navy]] ships of the [[Atlantic Patrol Task (North)]], {{HMS|Portland|F79|6}} and [[RFA Wave Ruler (A390)|RFA ''Wave Ruler'']], followed 150&nbsp;mi (240&nbsp;km) behind the storm in order to arrive at Cayman as soon after the hurricane as possible.<ref name="reliefweb_cayman_2007-08-20_01">{{cite web|author=Government of the United Kingdom|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 20, 2007|access-date=August 25, 2007|title=Cayman Islands: UK Naval ships prepare to assist with hurricane relief effort|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SJHG-76B4GS?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201133/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SJHG-76B4GS?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref>

Cuba and Puerto Rico, neither of which were expected to experience the worst of Dean's strength, prepared more modestly. Cuba's Civil Defense evacuated 350,000&nbsp;people from the coastal provinces.<ref name="AFP_2007-08-19_jam"/><ref name="reliefweb_OCHA_2007-08-20">{{cite web|author=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)|date=August 20, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean OCHA Situation Report No. 4|publisher=Relief Web|access-date=August 26, 2007|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-76A4YH?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031804/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-76A4YH?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=October 13, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> The government in [[Havana]] suspended all tourist programs ahead of the storm.<ref name="BBC August 19"/> Soldiers and emergency officials were prepared to convert schools and other government buildings into temporary shelters, but stood down when it became evident that they would not needed.<ref name="SF Gate preps"/> The U.S. [[Federal Emergency Management Agency]] (FEMA) deployed a five-member team to Puerto Rico ahead of Hurricane Dean. They were equipped with satellite communication systems to provide video-teleconferencing and help make real-time assessments of any damage.<ref name="ENS_dean_prep_01">{{cite web|date=August 17, 2007|title=Gulf States Mop Up After Erin, Ramp Up for Hurricane Dean|agency=Environmental News Service|access-date=August 17, 2007|url=http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2007/2007-08-17-02.asp|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930203316/http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2007/2007-08-17-02.asp|archive-date=September 30, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Mexico ===
{{Main|Effects of Hurricane Dean in Mexico}}
With Hurricane Dean's path predicted well in advance of the storm,<ref name="Dean_5_day_cone">{{cite web|author=NHC|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|date=August 22, 2007|access-date=August 20, 2008|title=5-Day Track Forecast Cone and Watch/Warning|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/graphics/al04/loop_5W.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193555/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/graphics/al04/loop_5W.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Government of Mexico]] was able to make ample preparations. On August 17, a [[state of emergency]] was declared for the state of [[Quintana Roo]] where Dean was expected to make landfall. On August 18 authorities began evacuating tourists<ref>{{cite web |author=AFP |date=August 19, 2007 |title=Hurricane Dean turns deadly |publisher=France 24 |access-date=August 19, 2007 |url=http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/world/20070819-dean-hurricane-jamaica-yucatan-catergory-four.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930185626/http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/world/20070819-dean-hurricane-jamaica-yucatan-catergory-four.html |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> and those residents living in the most vulnerable parts of Quintana Roo.<ref name="Globe-Mail preps"/><ref name="esmas state of emergency">{{cite web|title=Declara SEGOB emergencia en Quintana Roo |url=http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/654298.html |agency=[[Notimex]] |date=August 17, 2007 |access-date=August 17, 2007 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102202448/http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/654298.html |archive-date=January 2, 2013  }}</ref> The state government set up storm shelters in schools and other public buildings.<ref name="reliefweb_2007-08-19_02">{{cite web|author=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 19, 2007|access-date=August 25, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean OCHA Situation Report No. 3|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-769457?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201202/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-769457?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> With emergency supplies at the ready, the state of [[Yucatán (state)|Yucatán]], Quintana Roo's neighbour to the northwest, declared a green alert.<ref name="Yucatán green alert">{{cite web|title=Preparativos en Yucatán por el huracán Dean |url=http://www.yucatan.com.mx/noticia.asp?cx=11$3403000000$3620633&f=20070817 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070811163356/http://www.yucatan.com.mx/noticia.asp?cx=11$3403000000$3620633&f=20070817 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 11, 2007 |date=August 17, 2007 |access-date=August 18, 2007 |work=Diario de Yucatán |language=es }}</ref> On August 19 a hurricane watch was issued on the Yucatán Peninsula from [[Chetumal]] to [[San Felipe, Yucatán|San Felipe]] and residents made their last-minute preparations.<ref name="td4public26">{{cite web|author=Franklin/Rhome|date=August 19, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Twenty Six|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 19, 2007|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.026.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193443/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.026.shtml|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Belize===
A hurricane warning was issued for the coastal locations north of [[Belize City]] with the forecast of 150&nbsp;mph (240&nbsp;km/h) winds.<ref name="BBC_2007-08-21_Mex03">{{cite news|date=August 21, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean hits Mexico coast|publisher=BBC|access-date=August 21, 2007|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6955163.stm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203125906/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6955163.stm|archive-date=December 3, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> The government instituted a dusk-to-dawn curfew from Belize City to the Mexican border.<ref name="NPR_Belize_21-08-2007"/> On August 16&nbsp;and&nbsp;17, [[Prime Minister]] [[Said Musa]] chaired two meetings of Belize's National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO).<ref name="reliefweb_2007-08-19_02"/> He instructed the newly created Coastguard to evacuate popular tourist sites [[Caye Caulker]] and [[Ambergris Caye]] by boat and plane.<ref name="NPR_Belize_21-08-2007">{{cite news|publisher=National Public Radio|date=August 21, 2007|access-date=July 23, 2008|title=Hurricane Dean Weakens, Expected to Spare Texas|newspaper=NPR.org|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13817871|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926125840/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13817871|archive-date=September 26, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SanPedro_Belize_01">{{cite web|author=James Janmohamed |date=August 18, 2007 |title=San Pedro prepares for evacuation |work=San Pedro Daily |access-date=August 18, 2007 |url=http://www.sanpedrodaily.com/8-18-07.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929073155/http://www.sanpedrodaily.com/8-18-07.html |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref> Authorities also evacuated Belize City's three hospitals, moving high-risk patients inland to the capital [[Belmopan]]. The mayor urged residents to leave Belize City and to make use of shelters in the capital.<ref name="NPR_Belize_21-08-2007"/>

The United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination team dispatched two members to Belize City and the rest of the team traveled to Belmopan.<ref name="reliefweb_OCHA_2007-08-20"/> Government supplies were stored in [[Orange Walk District|Orange Walk]], [[Corozal District|Corozal]] ready for post-storm relief.<ref name="reliefweb_OCHA_2007-08-20"/><ref name="reliefweb_2007-08-19_02"/> Essential equipment from the [[Red Cross]] and the [[Pan American Health Organization]] was stored in the elevated UNICEF building and the Belize City UN building was converted to a crisis center.<ref name="reliefweb_OCHA_2007-08-20"/>

===Gulf of Mexico===
[[File:Gulf Offshore Platform.jpg|thumb|Hundreds of [[oil platform]]s, such as this one in the Gulf of Mexico, were evacuated in anticipation of Hurricane Dean.]]
Oil [[Futures contract|futures]] spiked on August 15 as analysts considered the impact of Hurricane Dean on refining capacity if it were to move into the Caribbean as predicted.<ref name="MarketWatch_01">{{cite web |author=Polya Lesova |date=August 15, 2007 |title=Crude oil, natural gas rise sharply on storm worries |work=MarketWatch |access-date=August 15, 2007 |url=http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/crude-oil-natural-gas-rise/story.aspx?guid=%7B8A811294-C6BC-495A-B73F-86C13FCA77E4%7D |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114040850/http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/crude-oil-natural-gas-rise/story.aspx?guid=%7B8A811294-C6BC-495A-B73F-86C13FCA77E4%7D |archive-date=November 14, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="detroitfp_oil_01">{{cite web |author=Alejandro Bodipo-Memba |date=August 16, 2007 |title=When gas prices go up, blame Dean |work=Detroit Free Press |access-date=August 15, 2007 |url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.fstadv.011.shtml? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102212502/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.fstadv.011.shtml |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Transocean]] evacuated 11 nonessential workers late on August&nbsp;15 from an [[Oil platform|oil rig]] located about 160&nbsp;mi (260&nbsp;km) southeast of [[New Orleans]]. The company left about 125&nbsp;personnel on board the structure.<ref name="Oil rig evacuations">{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/caribbean-prepares-for-hurricane-dean |title=Caribbean Prepares for Hurricane Dean |agency=Associated Press |date=August 16, 2007 |access-date=August 17, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106114857/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293529,00.html |archive-date=November 6, 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> A day later [[Royal Dutch Shell]] evacuated 275 ancillary staff, following an evacuation of 188 due to [[Tropical Storm Erin (2007)|Tropical Storm Erin]].<ref name="Forbes_impact&preps" />

On August 18, 2007, {{convert|10300|oilbbl|m3}} of oil and 11&nbsp;million&nbsp;cubic feet (310,000&nbsp;m³) of [[natural gas]] were [[Shut-in (oil drilling)|shut-in]] per day, accounting for 0.8% of crude production in the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. By 11:30&nbsp;am [[Central Time Zone|CST]] (1630 UTC), two rigs and one [[oil platform|platform]] evacuated personnel.<ref name="Oil shutins 08-18">{{cite web |author=[[Minerals Management Service]] |publisher=[[United States Department of Interior]] |date=August 18, 2007 |access-date=August 18, 2007 |title=Hurricane Dean Statistics Update |url=http://www.boem.gov/boem-newsroom/press-releases/2007/press0818.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923193314/http://www.boem.gov/boem-newsroom/press-releases/2007/press0818.aspx |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Pemex]], the state-owned Mexican oil company, made preparations to shut down oil production on August 19 ahead of Dean.<ref name="BBC August 19"/> It evacuated 13,360&nbsp;workers from more than 140&nbsp;oil platforms, using 55&nbsp;boats and 29&nbsp;helicopters.<ref name="AFP_2007-08-19_jam"/> As the storm continued to intensify, the number of evacuated Pemex workers increased to 18,000 on August 20, and all 407&nbsp;wells and drilling operations were abandoned. This reduced the worldwide production of oil and natural gas by {{convert|2.65|Moilbbl|m3}} and {{convert|2.6|e9cuft|m3}} per day, respectively.<ref name="Miami_Herald_jam_01">{{cite news |author1=David Ovalle |author2=Jacqueline Charles |author3=Martin Merzer |date=August 20, 2007 |title=Dean's rain reaches Mexico; damage reported in Jamaica |work=Miami Herald}}</ref>

===Other regions===
Throughout the Caribbean Sea, about a dozen cruise ships altered their routes to avoid Hurricane Dean.<ref name="Forbes_impact&preps">{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Hurricane Dean Gains Power in Caribbean |date=August 17, 2007}}</ref> [[Honduras]] was put on a state of preventative alert for 48&nbsp;hours, particularly the [[Departments of Honduras|departments]] to the north of the country; the [[Bay Islands (department)|Bay Islands]] were on a state of red alert. There were places ready to accommodate 10,000&nbsp;people for 15&nbsp;days if necessary.<ref>{{cite news |title=Autoridades decretan alerta roja en Islas de la Bahía |url=https://www.laprensa.hn/honduras/672019-97/autoridades-decretan-alerta-roja-en-islas-de-la-bah%C3%ADa |work=La Prensa |date=August 19, 2007 |access-date=August 20, 2007 |language=es |author=Cathy Rose |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402113626/https://www.laprensa.hn/honduras/672019-97/autoridades-decretan-alerta-roja-en-islas-de-la-bah%C3%ADa |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In the United States, the [[Louisiana]] Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness activated its Crisis Action Team on August 16 to monitor the storm and coordinate preparation.<ref name="ENS_dean_prep_01"/> [[Governor of Louisiana]] [[Kathleen Blanco]] declared a state of emergency early on the evening of August 17,<ref name="louisiana_blanco_01">{{cite web |agency=Associated Press |date=August 17, 2007 |title=Blanco declares state of emergency |publisher=WWLTV |access-date=August 18, 2007 |url=http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl081707blanco.440718ba.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926230621/http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl081707blanco.440718ba.html |archive-date=September 26, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> asking for a presidential emergency declaration to give Louisiana access to federal funds prior to any landfall.<ref name="ENS_dean_prep_01"/> Texas Governor [[Rick Perry]] declared Dean to be an imminent threat to the state, and initiated a full-scale hurricane preparedness effort on August 17 when the storm was at least five days away.<ref name="texas_perry_01">{{cite web |author=Governor Rick Perry |year=2007 |title=Gov. Perry Declares Hurricane Dean Imminent Threat to Texas |publisher=Office of the Governor |access-date=August 17, 2007 |url=http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/2173/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615052409/http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/2173/ |archive-date=June 15, 2013 }}</ref> Prior to the storm, Texas suffered [[June 2007 Texas flooding|severe flooding from several June–July storms]], and [[Tropical Storm Erin (2007)|Tropical Storm Erin]] left the ground still saturated. Governor Perry feared that more rainfall from Dean would cause additional flash flooding,<ref name="forbes_texas_flooding">{{cite news |author=Elizabeth White |year=2007 |title=Texas Soaked by Erin, Braces for Dean |work=Forbes}}</ref> and had 250 [[Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]] crews on standby with boats to assist in potential evacuations. He was willing to deploy up to 10,000 [[Texas Military Forces]] soldiers, and did deploy several elements of the [[Texas State Guard]] who set up emergency shelters.<ref name="ENS_dean_prep_01"/> The Texas fuel industry began surging fuel loads to coastal counties to ensure adequate fuel in the event of the hurricane causing a disruption to the fuel distribution system.<ref name="ENS_dean_prep_01"/> In anticipation of evacuations, the [[Texas Department of Transportation]] began working on extra evacuation lanes and [[Contraflow lane reversal|contraflow]].<ref name="ENS_dean_prep_01"/> [[NASA]] cut short the [[STS-118]] mission as a precaution, in case Dean approached [[Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center|Mission Control]] at the [[Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center]] in [[Houston]].<ref name="Herald preps">{{cite news |url=http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2007/08/18/111329_storm-warnings-posted-in-jamaica.html?rh=1 |title=Storm warnings posted in Jamaica, Caymans |author=Jacqueline Charles |author2=Jim Wyss |author3=Martin Merzer |work=[[Miami Herald]] |date=August 18, 2007 |access-date=August 18, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216212108/http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2007/08/18/111329_storm-warnings-posted-in-jamaica.html?rh=1 |archive-date=December 16, 2014}}</ref> To that effect, mission managers cut the mission's final spacewalk short by two hours,<ref name="WSJ NASA">{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Hurricane Dean Forces NASA To Scale Back Final Spacewalk |date=August 18, 2007}}</ref> allowing them to land a day earlier than originally planned.<ref name="SF Gate preps"/><ref name="NASA status report 20">{{cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts118/news/STS-118-20.html |author=[[Mission Control Center]] |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=August 18, 2007 |date=August 18, 2007 |title=STS-118 MCC Status Report #20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812230605/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts118/news/STS-118-20.html |archive-date=August 12, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Impact==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="float:right; margin:0 0 0.5em 1em; float:right;"
|+'''Deaths and damage by country'''
|- style="text-align:center;"
! '''Country''' !! Total<br />deaths !! Direct<br />deaths !! Damage<br />(USD) !! class="unsortable"|Source
|-
| [[Belize]] || 0 || 0 || {{ntsp|97000000||$}} ||<ref name="belizedamage">{{cite web|author=R. Frutos|publisher=Belize National Meteorological Service|date=November 30, 2007|title=Close of the 2007 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season|access-date=March 24, 2008|url=http://www.hydromet.gov.bz/2007_Hurricane_Season.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802042350/http://www.hydromet.gov.bz/2007_Hurricane_Season.htm|archive-date=August 2, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Dominica]] || 2 || 2 || {{ntsp|162000000||$}} ||<ref name="SF Gate preps"/><ref>{{cite web|author=International Monetary Fund|date=February 8, 2008|title=Dominica's recovery efforts boosted by US$3.3m in IMF emergency assistance|access-date=March 24, 2008|url=http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-5918--31-31--.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526164746/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-5918--31-31--.html|archive-date=May 26, 2008}}</ref>
|-
| [[Dominican Republic]] || 6 || 6 || {{ntsp|40000000||$}} ||<ref name="EMDAT">{{cite web|url=http://www.emdat.be/|title=EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database|work=Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters|author=Unattributed|year=2011|publisher=Université Catholique de Louvain|access-date=September 15, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140215235623/http://www.emdat.be/|archive-date=February 15, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Guadeloupe]] || 0 || 0 || {{ntsp|100000000||€}}||<ref name="TCR"/>
|-
| [[Haiti]] || 14 || 14 || {{ntsh|0}}Unknown ||<ref name="TCR"/>
|-
| [[Jamaica]] || 3 || 3 || {{ntsp|300000000||$}} ||<ref name="EMDAT"/>
|-
| Martinique || 3 || 0 || {{ntsp|400000000||€}}||<ref name="TCR"/>
|-
| Mexico || 13 || 12 || {{ntsp|600000000||$}} ||<ref name="TCR"/><ref name="EMDAT"/>
|-
| [[Nicaragua]] || 1 || 1 || {{ntsh|0}}None ||<ref name="Panta_2007-08-20_Nica01">{{cite web|author=Howard Campbell|date=August 19, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean pummels Jamaica|access-date=August 20, 2007|url=http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/08/19/news/doc46c9089acd701409415110.txt|publisher=Pantagraph|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121208170439/http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/08/19/news/doc46c9089acd701409415110.txt|archive-date=December 8, 2012}}</ref>
|-
| [[Puerto Rico]] || {{ntsh|0}}None || {{ntsh|0}}None || {{ntsp|15000||$}} ||<ref name="Storm Data Aug 08">{{cite journal|title=August 2008|journal=Storm Data|volume=49|issue=8|pages=519–520|url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/sd/sd.html|access-date=November 28, 2012|author=National Climatic Data Center|format=PDF|editor1=Angel, William|editor2=Hinson, Stuart|editor3=Herndon, Rhonda|publisher=United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service|issn=0039-1972|oclc=647897316|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928062146/http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/sd/sd.html|archive-date=September 28, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Saint Lucia]] || 1 || 1 || {{ntsp|6400000||$}} ||<ref name="TCR"/><ref name="EMDAT"/>
|-
| US Virgin Islands || {{ntsh|0}}None || {{ntsh|0}}None || {{ntsp|35000||$}} ||<ref name="Storm Data Aug 08"/>
|- class="unsortable"
! Totals: || {{nts|43}}|| {{nts|39}}|| {{ntsp|1205000000||>$}}||
|- class="unsortable"
| colspan = 9 | <small>Because of differing sources, totals may not match.</small>
|}
Fifteen countries felt the effects of Hurricane Dean as its path through the Caribbean Sea claimed 42&nbsp;lives. The hurricane first brushed the Lesser Antilles on August 17, 2007, and as it passed through the interior of the Caribbean its outer rain bands swept over the Greater Antilles. It passed Jamaica as a Category&nbsp;4 hurricane, and strengthened to a Category&nbsp;5 storm before it made landfall on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula on August 21. Dean made a second landfall in Mexico on August 22 as a Category 2 storm.<ref name="TCR" />

===Lesser Antilles===
{{main|Effects of Hurricane Dean in the Lesser Antilles}}
Hurricane Dean entered the Caribbean as a Category&nbsp;2 hurricane through the [[Saint Lucia Channel]] on August 17.<ref name="td4disc17"/> It moved briskly between the Lesser Antillean islands of St. Lucia and Martinique,<ref name="td4disc17"/> with its storm surge and rain bands reaching every island in the chain.<ref name="TCR"/> Damage was most severe in Martinique where total damage was estimated at [[Euro|€]]400&nbsp;million and three indirect deaths, while nearby Guadeloupe suffered €100&nbsp;million of damage. In St. Lucia, damage was mostly caused by the high seas and was estimated at US$18&nbsp;million.<ref name="TCR"/>

Martinique experienced 75&nbsp;mph (120&nbsp;km/h) winds with gusts to 105&nbsp;mph (170&nbsp;km/h).<ref name="td4disc17"/> The torrential rainfall, which reached 332&nbsp;mm (13.07&nbsp;in)<ref name="TCR"/> caused flooding throughout the island, with the town of [[Rivière-Pilote]] flooding completely. The majority of Martinique's population were left without electricity, water, telephone, or food, and 600 Martiniquans were left homeless.<ref name="cab360_2007-08-21">{{cite web |date=August 20, 2007 |title=Heavy losses for Martinique; Eastern Caribbean reopens after Dean |work=Caribbean360 |access-date=August 22, 2007 |url=http://www.caribbean360.com/News/Weather/Stories/2007/08/20/NEWS0000004782.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929100738/http://www.caribbean360.com/News/Weather/Stories/2007/08/20/NEWS0000004782.html |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref><ref name="Sydney impact">{{cite web |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hurricane-dean-intensifies/2007/08/18/1186857814654.html |title=Hurricane Dean intensifies |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |date=August 18, 2007 |access-date=August 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023030351/http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hurricane-dean-intensifies/2007/08/18/1186857814654.html |archive-date=October 23, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="carib_news_2007-08-23">{{cite web |author=Danik Ibraheem Zandwonis |publisher=Caribbean Net News |date=August 23, 2007 |access-date=August 23, 2007 |title=Guadeloupe and Martinique after Dean |url=http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/caribnet/martinique/martinique.php?news_id=3166&start=40&category_id=34 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140225190419/http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/caribnet/martinique/martinique.php?news_id=3166&start=40&category_id=34 |archive-date=February 25, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> The storm destroyed Martinique's entire banana crop, and 70% of the island's sugar cane plantations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=a8b3574c-38b9-4843-8ec3-8c550c33a27b |title=Hurricane destroys Martinique, Guadeloupe bananas |agency=Reuters |date=August 18, 2007 |access-date=August 18, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109032637/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=a8b3574c-38b9-4843-8ec3-8c550c33a27b |archive-date=January 9, 2012 }}</ref> The damage to these two agricultural sectors accounted for the majority of the island's €400&nbsp;million damage.

On the evening of August 16, 12&nbsp;hours before the storm arrived in St. Lucia, power outages began in some of the island's neighborhoods. The night saw heavy rains, 1.58&nbsp;in (40&nbsp;mm) at St. Lucia's [[Hewanorra International Airport]],<ref>{{cite web |author=Computer Generated |publisher=Weather Underground |date=August 16, 2007 |access-date=August 17, 2008 |title=History for Hewanorra, St. Lucia: Thursday, August&nbsp;16, 2007 |url=http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/TLPL/2007/8/16/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194158/http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/TLPL/2007/8/16/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=Weather Underground |date=August 17, 2007 |access-date=August 17, 2008 |title=History for Hewanorra, St. Lucia: Friday, August&nbsp;17, 2007 |url=http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/TLPL/2007/8/17/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102192525/http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/TLPL/2007/8/17/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> and intense thunderstorms and by morning hurricane-force winds peaked at 90&nbsp;mph (145&nbsp;km/h).<ref name="cabnews_2007-08-18">{{cite web |author=Amselma Aimable |date=August 18, 2007 |title=Report from St Lucia |publisher=Caribbean Net News |access-date=August 22, 2007 |url=http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/caribnet/archivelist.php?pageaction=showdetail&news_id=3095&arcyear=2007&arcmonth=8&arcday=18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312212342/http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/caribnet/archivelist.php?pageaction=showdetail&news_id=3095&arcyear=2007&arcmonth=8&arcday=18 |archive-date=March 12, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> The winds uprooted trees,<ref name="BBC News August 17"/> downed electricity poles, disabled bridges, triggered [[landslide]]s, and damaged several roofs. Saint Lucia's capital, [[Castries]], was flooded by the storm surge which left boulders and fishing boats on the streets. One person drowned in [[Sarrot]] after being swept away by a rain-swollen river while trying to recover a cow.<ref name="Forbes_impact&preps" /><ref name="bbc_2007-08-17_02">{{cite news |date=August 17, 2007 |title=Caribbean storm gathers strength |publisher=BBC News |access-date=August 17, 2007 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6950626.stm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193327/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6950626.stm |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> Hurricane Dean damaged the roofs of two of the island's hospitals, but no-one was injured.<ref name="paho_2007-08-21" /><ref name="ctv_2007-08-17_01">{{cite web |date=August 17, 2007 |title=Hurricane Dean upgraded to powerful Category 4 |publisher=CTV.ca |access-date=August 17, 2007 |url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070817/dean_storm_070817/20070817?hub=CTVNewsAt11 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070823013646/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070817/dean_storm_070817/20070817?hub=CTVNewsAt11 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 23, 2007 }}</ref> Several other buildings were damaged, mostly on the island's northern coast which was most exposed to the hurricane.<ref name="reliefweb_2007-08-21_05">{{cite web|author=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)|date=August 21, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean OCHA Situation Report No. 5|publisher=Relief Web|access-date=August 22, 2007|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-76B7U6?OpenDocument|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217105429/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-76B7U6?OpenDocument|archive-date=February 17, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> The Ministry of Education reported that 11 schools had sustained a combined total of [[East Caribbean dollar|EC]]$300,000 of damage,<ref name="CDERA_2007-08-21_7">{{cite web |author=CDERA |date=August 21, 2007 |access-date=August 22, 2007 |publisher=CDERA.org |title=CDERA Mounts Level Two Response to Hurricane Dean Impact Update August&nbsp;21, 2007, 4 p.m. EDT |url=http://www.cdera.org/cunews/uploads/hurricane_deansitrep7.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928141045/http://www.cdera.org/cunews/uploads/hurricane_deansitrep7.pdf |archive-date=September 28, 2007}}</ref> and nationwide damage to housing and buildings totaled EC$800,000.<ref name="CDERA_2007-08-21_7"/> The Ministry of Communications, Works, Transport, and Public Utilities reported that most of the country's major infrastructure remained functional, and no long-term disruptions occurred.<ref name="reliefweb_2007-08-21_05"/><ref name="CDERA_2007-08-21_7"/>

The hardest hit area of Saint Lucia was its agricultural sector. {{convert|5000|acre|km2|0}} of banana farms in [[Mabouya Valley]], [[Roseau Valley]], and [[Marc Marc]] were severely damaged with many of the plantations waterlogged or outright destroyed.<ref name="cabnews_2007-08-18"/><ref name="cbc_2007-08-17">{{cite web |date=August 17, 2007 |title=Hurricane claims one life in St. Lucia and possibly two in Dominica |publisher=CBC |access-date=August 17, 2007 |url=http://www.cbc.bb/content/view/12195/45/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240507102842/http://www.evernetcorp.com/content/view/12195/45/ |archive-date=May 7, 2024 |url-status=dead }}</ref> An average of 75% of the crops were lost, with fields in the Northern Farms losing up to 80% and in the Roseau Valley losing up to 85%. The cost to the agriculture industry was $13.2&nbsp;million, bringing Hurricane Dean's total cost on the island to $17.3&nbsp;million (US$6.4&nbsp;million in 2007) or 0.5% of the nation's GDP.<ref name="CDERA_2007-08-21_7"/><ref name="stlucia_gdp">{{cite web |author=CIA |date=August 16, 2007 |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |access-date=August 22, 2007 |title=St. Lucia: Economy |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/saint-lucia/ }}</ref><ref name="reliefweb_2007-08-22">{{cite web|author=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)|date=August 22, 2007|title=Thousands in need of humanitarian assistance after Hurricane Dean|publisher=Relief Web|access-date=August 23, 2007|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-76CHTB?OpenDocument&rc=2&cc=dma|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927184142/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-76CHTB?OpenDocument&rc=2&cc=dma|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Greater Antilles===
{{main|Effects of Hurricane Dean in the Greater Antilles}}
[[File:House in Kingston after Hurricane Dean.jpg|thumb|A house in [[Kingston, Jamaica]] destroyed by Hurricane Dean]]

The storm passed to the south of most of the Greater Antilles, though its outer rain bands crossed many of the islands, and delivered hurricane-force winds to Jamaica. Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands were mostly spared,<ref name=":0">{{cite web|author=Staff Writer|date=August 18, 2007|title=Se aleja huracán "Dean" de Puerto Rico sin causar daños|url=http://www.milenio.com/index.php/2007/08/18/108576/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720135200/http://www.milenio.com/index.php/2007/08/18/108576/|archive-date=July 20, 2011|access-date=August 17, 2007|publisher=Milenio|language=Spanish}}</ref> though Hurricane Dean passed 50 to 60&nbsp;mi (80 to 95&nbsp;km) south of Jamaica as a Category&nbsp;4 hurricane.<ref name="TCR"/><ref name="td4public27">{{cite web |author=Franklin/Rhome |date=August 19, 2007 |title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Twenty Seven |publisher=National Hurricane Center |access-date=August 19, 2007 |url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.027.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102223812/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.027.shtml |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> In Jamaica the rain caused flooding on the eastern side of the island and landslides in the northeast.<ref name="BBC_2007-08-20_jam">{{cite news |date=August 20, 2007 |title=Hurricane batters Jamaica's south |publisher=BBC News |access-date=August 20, 2007 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6954296.stm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124191300/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6954296.stm |archive-date=January 24, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> At least two direct deaths were confirmed.<ref name="reliefweb_jam_OPDEM_2007-08-20">{{cite web |author=Government of Jamaica |date=August 20, 2007 |title=Jamaica OPDEM Situation Report No. 8 |publisher=Relief Web |access-date=August 26, 2007 |url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/KHII-76A477?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200717/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/KHII-76A477?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> Over 1,500 roofs were lost, primarily to the hurricane-force winds,<ref name="reliefweb_jam_USAID_2007-08-24">{{cite web |author=Government of Jamaica |publisher=Relief Web |date=August 24, 2007 |access-date=August 26, 2007 |title=Jamaica: USAID hands over emergency relief supplies|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76E487?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195902/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76E487?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> and 1,582 of the 3,127 damaged homes were uninhabitable.<ref name="reliefweb_factsheet_2007-08-24">{{cite web |author=United States Agency for International Development (USAID) |publisher=Relief Web |date=August 24, 2007 |access-date=August 26, 2007 |title=Latin America and the Caribbean&nbsp;– Hurricane Season 2007 Fact Sheet #3 (FY 2007) |url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76E3GX?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200219/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76E3GX?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> Landslides and fallen trees blocked hundreds of roads, particularly in the rural northeast region.<ref name="reliefweb_jam_OPDEM_2007-08-21">{{cite web |author=Government of Jamaica |publisher=Relief Web |date=August 21, 2007 |access-date=August 26, 2007|title=Jamaica OPDEM Situation Report No. 9 |url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EDIS-76ASSV?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200355/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EDIS-76ASSV?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="reliefweb_jam_cleanup_2007-08-22">{{cite web |author=Government of Jamaica |date=August 22, 2007 |title=Jamaica: Post-Hurricane Dean clean-up activities continues |publisher=Relief Web |access-date=August 26, 2007 |url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/KHII-76C3FW?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200212/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/KHII-76C3FW?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> As in the Lesser Antilles, Jamaica suffered severe damage to its agricultural sector. Forty percent of the sugarcane crop, 80-to-100% of the banana crop, 75% of the coffee trees under three years old, and 20% of the top layer of the cocoa crop were lost.<ref name="reliefweb_factsheet_2007-08-24"/> Hurricane Dean affected 248 roads, including 186 that were blocked:<ref name="reliefweb_jam_OPDEM_2007-08-21"/><ref name="reliefweb_jam_cleanup_2007-08-22"/> 10 were blocked in the [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]] metropolitan region,<ref name="reliefweb_jam_OPDEM_2007-08-21"/> 14 sections were blocked in [[Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica|St. Andrew]], 43 roads were blocked in [[Saint Catherine Parish|St. Catherine]], eight roads were blocked in the Western Region ([[Saint James Parish, Jamaica|Saint James]], [[Hanover Parish|Hanover]], [[Westmoreland Parish|Westmoreland]], and [[Trelawny Parish|Trelawny]]), and 110 roads were blocked in the Northeast region.<ref name="reliefweb_jam_cleanup_2007-08-22"/>
[[File:Hurricane Dean Bull Bay damage.jpg|left|thumb|Damage in [[Bull Bay]]]]

Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola, were spared much of the hurricane's force, as it passed 170&nbsp;mi (270&nbsp;km) south of them.<ref name="td4public23">{{cite web |author=Avila |title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Twenty Three |publisher=National Hurricane Center |access-date=August 18, 2007 |date=August 18, 2007 |url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.023.shtml? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193533/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.023.shtml |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Dom_today_08-19-07">{{cite web |date=August 18, 2007 |title=Dominican Republic feels effects of Hurricane Dean |work=Dominican Republic News |access-date=August 19, 2007 |url=http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2007/8/18/25136/Dominican-Republic-feels-effects-of-Hurricane-Dean |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194515/http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2007/8/18/25136/Dominican-Republic-feels-effects-of-Hurricane-Dean |archive-date=January 2, 2014 }}</ref> However, 15&nbsp;people were killed among the island's two nations.<ref name="AFP_2007-08-19_jam"/><ref name="reliefweb_2007-08-19_02"/><ref name="OCHA_2007-08-24_01">{{cite web |author=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |publisher=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |date=August 24, 2007 |access-date=August 26, 2007 |title=Situation Report 7 – Hurricane Dean&nbsp;— August&nbsp;24, 2007 |url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2007.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/SODA-76E3D3-full_report.pdf/$File/full_report.pdf |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20080217105510/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2007.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/SODA-76E3D3-full_report.pdf/%24File/full_report.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 17, 2008 }}</ref> Heavy rain flooded the streets of [[Santo Domingo]]<ref name="reliefweb_2007-08-21">{{cite web |author=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) |publisher=Relief Web |date=August 21, 2007 |access-date=August 25, 2007 |title=Hurricane Dean OCHA Situation Report No. 5 |url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-76B7U6?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200939/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-76B7U6?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> and rough surf pounded the coast.<ref name="AFP_2007-08-19_jam"/><ref name="Hindi_08-19-07">{{cite web |date=August 19, 2007 |title=Tourists in Caribbean jam airports to escape Hurricane Dean |work=The Hindu |agency=Associated Press |access-date=August 19, 2007 |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200708190952.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930211202/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200708190952.htm |archive-date=September 30, 2007 }}</ref> Rain also caused landslides in Haiti,<ref name="Haiti_landslides">{{cite news |author=Chris Kraul|title=Mighty hurricane advances on Mexico |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/mighty-hurricane-rips-into-jamaica/2007/08/20/1187462176029.html |date=August 21, 2007 |access-date=September 19, 2008 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023221037/http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/mighty-hurricane-rips-into-jamaica/2007/08/20/1187462176029.html|archive-date=October 23, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> destroying several hundred homes and forcing 5,154&nbsp;people into temporary shelters,<ref name="reliefweb_2007-08-19_02"/> and compromising the temperamental water system in the town of [[Bainet]].<ref name="OCHA_2007-08-24_01"/>

Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Cayman Islands experienced high surf and heavy rains, though despite a power outage in Grand Cayman,<ref name="reliferweb_paho_2007_08-20">{{cite web|author=Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 20, 2007|access-date=August 25, 2007|title=Hurricane Dean in the Caribbean: Situation Report 20&nbsp;Aug 2007|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76A3TN?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200120/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76A3TN?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> no significant damage was reported.<ref name=":0" /> There, 2000&nbsp;people weathered the storm in temporary shelters. The hurricane's outer bands swept over Cuba between August 19 and 21, bringing heavy rain and high seas, yet sparing the island damaging winds.<ref name="reliferweb_paho_2007_08-20"/> Rain from Hurricane Dean flooded several roads throughout Puerto Rico, and there was heavy surf along the island's coast, but no deaths or injuries were reported.<ref name=":0" />

===Mexico===
{{main|Effects of Hurricane Dean in Mexico}}
[[File:Dean 2007-08-21.gif|thumb|right|Dean making landfall in Mexico as a Category 5 hurricane]]

The hurricane strengthened right up until it made landfall near [[Majahual]] on the Quintana Roo coast of the Yucatán Peninsula on August 21, 2007, as a Category&nbsp;5 hurricane.<ref name="TCR"/> The state's tourist cities of Cancún and Cozumel were spared the worst of the storm, but it wreaked havoc in the state capital Chetumal, 40&nbsp;mi (65&nbsp;km) south of landfall, causing significant flooding.<ref name="yahoo_2007-08-21_mex01">{{cite web|publisher=Yahoo! |author=Mark Stevenson |agency=AP |date=August 21, 2007 |title=Category 5 Hurricane Dean slams Mexico |access-date=August 21, 2007 |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070821/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/tropical_weather |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070821175553/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070821/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/tropical_weather |archive-date=August 21, 2007  }}</ref>  The town of Majahual, which had a population of 200, was totally destroyed by the storm. Storm surge and high winds severely damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings<ref name=sfgate>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/26/TREVRN98B.DTL|title=Travelers' Checks: Hurricane Dean knocks out Costa Maya cruise port|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=August 26, 2007|access-date=August 27, 2007|author1=Spud Hilton|author2=John Flinn|author3=Larry Habegger|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525060417/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2007%2F08%2F26%2FTREVRN98B.DTL|archive-date=May 25, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> and had the strength to crumple steel girders.<ref name="TCR"/> The waves tore away portions of the concrete docks at Costa Maya's popular cruise port and the harbor was closed to cruise ships for almost a year.<ref name=sfgate/><ref name="Fodors">{{cite web|url=http://www.fodors.com/news/story_2690.html|title=Hurricane Dean: Don't Cancel Your Trip|access-date=June 27, 2008|date=August 29, 2007|publisher=Fodor's|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312212739/http://www.fodors.com/news/story_2690.html|archive-date=March 12, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Despite the storm's tremendous intensity, not a single death was attributed to its initial landfall, owing mostly to the government's thorough preparations and forecasters' ample warning.<ref name="scoop_aug_2007"/><ref name="UN_applauds"/>

Following the second landfall on the Veracruz coast, two rivers in the mountains of the state of [[Hidalgo (state)|Hidalgo]] overflowed, and rain fell as far west as the Pacific coast. [[Governor of Veracruz|Veracruz Governor]] [[Fidel Herrera Beltrán|Fidel Herrera]] said there was "a tremendous amount of damage".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-foreign26aug26|title=Hurricane Dean's wake: updates from Mexico & the Caribbean|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 23, 2007|access-date=August 27, 2007|author=Diana Dawson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930155248/http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-foreign26aug26|archive-date=September 30, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Petroleum]] production was expected to begin returning to normal within a few days.<ref name="mex_2007-08-24">{{cite news|work=Reuters|date=August 23, 2007|access-date=October 24, 2014|title=Hurricane Dean rains pound Mexico|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/storm-dean-idUKN2337533620070823|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028233510/http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/08/23/storm-dean-idUKN2337533620070823|archive-date=October 28, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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Rainfall amounts of 4 to 8&nbsp;in (100 to 200&nbsp;mm) fell across the states of [[Jalisco]] and [[Nayarit]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Comisión Nacional del Agua |author=Servicio Meteorológico Nacional Mexico |url=http://smn.cna.gob.mx/boletin/avisos/atlantico/atlantico.html |title=Remanentes del Ciclón Tropical "Dean" |date=August 3, 2007 |access-date=August 25, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040528075116/http://smn.cna.gob.mx/boletin/avisos/atlantico/atlantico.html |archive-date=May 28, 2004  }}</ref> This rainfall caused one fatality in Jalisco after a [[mudslide]] fell on 10&nbsp;houses, killing one of the occupants.<ref name="earthtimes_mex_impact">{{cite web|work=Earth Times |date=August 24, 2007 |access-date=August 24, 2007 |title=Death toll reaches 11 from Hurricane Dean in Mexico |url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/97770.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121220163941/http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/97770.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 20, 2012  }}</ref> Five people were killed in [[Puebla]] by landslides, and one more was crushed after a wall on his house collapsed. One person in Veracruz was electrocuted after touching a [[electric power transmission|power line]] while doing roof repairs. In [[Michoacán]], a man was struck by [[lightning]] under a tree in the outer bands of the storm, and two people died in Hidalgo when the roof collapsed in their house.<ref name="mex_2007-08-24"/><ref name="wap_mex_impact">{{cite web|author=Tomas Bravo |agency=Reuters |date=August 22, 2007 |access-date=August 22, 2007 |title=Hurricane Dean slams Mexico's Gulf coast, kills two |url=http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22182914.htm |archive-date=August 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824052039/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22182914.htm |url-status=dead  }}</ref><!--Citations for entire paragraph--> Hurricane Dean killed 12&nbsp;people in Mexico but remarkably no one was killed by its first (and catastrophically powerful) landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula.<ref name="TCR"/> Between the two landfalls damages, focused mainly in the agricultural sector, totaled [[Mexican peso|Mex]]$2.05&nbsp;billion (US$160&nbsp;million).<ref name="MEX_DMG_TOTAL">{{cite web|publisher=Agrointernet|date=September 11, 2007|access-date=September 12, 2008|title=Mas de 2 mil millones de pesos los daños por dean en Quinta Roo|url=http://www.agrointernet.com.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1658&Itemid=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005032734/http://www.agrointernet.com.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1658&Itemid=2|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 5, 2011|language=es}}</ref>

===Belize===
The town of Corozal on Belize's northern border experienced the worst conditions in the country. Trees were downed throughout the town,<ref name="NPR_Belize_21-08-2007"/> and minor flooding was reported.<ref name="USDef_2007-08-22">{{cite web|author=Tech. Sgt. Sonny Cohrs|agency=American Forces Press Service, News Articles|date=August 22, 2007|access-date=July 23, 2008|title=U.S. Assessment Team Arrives in Belize Behind Hurricane Dean|url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47139|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080710231237/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47139|archive-date=July 10, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> Eight thousand were displaced to shelters, though all returned home in less than two days.<ref name="ReliefWeb_SitRep6"/> Throughout the entire country, the Belizean Ministry of Health reported no storm-related fatalities and only a few minor injuries.<ref name="ReliefWeb_SitRep6">{{cite web|author=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)|publisher=ReliefWeb|date=August 22, 2007|access-date=July 23, 2008|title=Hurricane Dean OCHA Situation Report No. 6|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-76C2TH?OpenDocument|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514210958/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-76C2TH?OpenDocument|archive-date=May 14, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>

Belize's agricultural sector received significant damage. Its sugar cane fields and papaya crops suffered extensive damage.<ref name="USDef_2007-08-22"/><ref name="Blake_Hounshell">{{cite web|author=Blake Hounshell|work=Foreign Policy|date=August 22, 2007|access-date=July 24, 2008|title=Hurricane Dean's big winner: sugar?|url=http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/5963|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007114723/http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/5963|archive-date=October 7, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> The Belizean Government's National Emergency Management Organization estimated Dean's damage to the papaya industry at [[Belize dollar|BZ]]$30&nbsp;million and to the sugar industry at {{convert|6000|acre|km2}} worth BZ$3.6&nbsp;million.<ref name="SanPedroSun_2007-08-30">{{cite web|work=The San Pedro Sun |date=August 30, 2007 |access-date=July 23, 2008 |title=Hurricane Dean costs Belize $107&nbsp;Million + |url=http://www.sanpedrosun.net/old/07-342.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021111113/http://sanpedrosun.net/old/07-342.html |archive-date=October 21, 2007 }}</ref> Belize Sugar Industries Ltd. reported that the country's sugar crop that year was the worst on record, producing 980,000&nbsp;lb (445,000&nbsp;kg) of sub-standard cane, compared to 1.2&nbsp;million&nbsp;lb (545,000&nbsp;kg) of high quality cane the year before.<ref name="LoveFM">{{cite web|author=Manuela Ayuso |publisher=LoveFM |date=July 8, 2008 |access-date=July 24, 2008 |title=Worse sugar season reported by Belize sugar industry |url=http://www.lovefm.com/ndisplay.php?nid=8206 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722005426/http://www.lovefm.com/ndisplay.php?nid=8206 |archive-date=July 22, 2011 }}</ref> More than 1000&nbsp;people were out of work as a result of the damage to the papaya and sugar cane plantations.<ref name="ReliefWeb_SitRep6"/> The government attempted to improve the next crop season in 2008 by providing fertilizers to the farmers whose land had been damaged by Dean the year before.<ref name="Gov_Belz_Cane_Fert">{{cite web|publisher=Government of Belize, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries|date=January 14, 2008|access-date=July 24, 2008|title=Northern Cane Farmers Provided with Much Needed Fertilizers|url=http://www.governmentofbelize.gov.bz/press_release_details.php?pr_id=4815}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Prime Minister Said Musa estimated that it would cost US$10&nbsp;million to replace or repair all the damaged houses in Belize.<ref name="SanPedroSun_2007-08-30"/>

===Other regions===
No land effects were reported in [[Nicaragua]] but a four-year-old girl drowned on a boat that sank amidst high winds and waves at the mouth of the [[Kukra River]].<ref name="Panta_2007-08-20_Nica01"/>

While the hurricane itself never approached the United States, heavy [[Ocean surface wave|surf]] and [[rip current]]s were reported on the beaches of Florida. One person drowned and at least 35&nbsp;people had to be rescued from the turbulent waters at [[Siesta Key, Florida|Siesta Key]] caused by Hurricane Dean.<ref name="TBO_usa_impact">{{cite web|author=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|work=The Tampa Tribune|date=August 23, 2007|access-date=August 25, 2007|title=Lifeguards Rescue More Than 35 Off Siesta Key|url=http://tbo.com/news/lifeguards-rescue-more-than--off-siesta-key-167663|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121134744/http://www.tbo.com/news/lifeguards-rescue-more-than--off-siesta-key-167663|archive-date=January 21, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Rough seas produced by Dean caused minor flooding in [[Dauphin Island, Alabama]]. Damages from the flooding amounted to $100,000.<ref name="NCDCAlabamaseas">{{cite web|publisher=[[National Climatic Data Center]] |date=August 22, 2007 |access-date=June 7, 2019 |title=NCDC Storm Events Database: Alabama High Surf |url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=53870 }}</ref> The remnant circulation of Dean, after lingering off the Pacific Coast, moved inland by [[Santa Barbara, California]], and brought heavy thunderstorms and localized flooding to coastal Southern California on the morning of August 26.<ref name="San_Diego_Union_Tribune_S_California_impact">"{{cite web|author=SignOnSanDiego News Services|work=San Diego Union-Tribune|date=2007-08-26|access-date=2007-09-06|title=Thunderstorms dump rain on North County|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20070826-0925-rain.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021122739/http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20070826-0925-rain.html|archive-date=2012-10-21}}</ref> The remnants crossed the [[Mojave Desert]] on the morning of August 27. [[Las Vegas]], received a daily record of 0.58&nbsp;in (15&nbsp;mm) of rain, with flash flooding and minor damage.<ref name="AccuWeather_USA_SW_impact">"{{cite web|author=AccuWeather.com|publisher=AccuWeather|date=August 28, 2007|access-date=September 6, 2007|title=AccuWeather.com&nbsp;— Weather Blogs- Weather News|url=http://www.accuweather.com/news-top-headline.asp?partner=21864|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070508174350/http://www.accuweather.com/news-top-headline.asp?partner=21864|archive-date=May 8, 2007}}</ref>

==Aftermath==
[[File:Freedom of the seas.jpg|thumb|left|This [[Royal Caribbean International|Royal Caribbean]] ship, ''[[MS Freedom of the Seas|Freedom of the Seas]]'', was the first [[cruise ship]] to visit Jamaica after Hurricane Dean. It called into [[Ocho Rios]] on August 22.]]
Despite Dean's significant damage, it did not have severe effects on infrastructure, and the non-agricultural sectors of most affected nations recovered quickly. Most cruise lines diverted their ships away from the Western Caribbean in anticipation of Hurricane Dean's passage, though by August 27 all were back on schedule, except those with damaged ports in Belize and the Yucatán. The Lesser Antilles and the Greater Antilles were especially quick to resume servicing cruise lines, as their ports opened within days.<ref name="Fodors"/>

===Lesser Antilles===
{{main|Effects of Hurricane Dean in the Lesser Antilles}}
Although Hurricane Dean was only a Category&nbsp;2 hurricane when its northern eyewall passed over Martinique, the wind and widespread flooding destroyed 70% of the island's sugar cane crop and all of its banana crop, valued at €400&nbsp;million <ref name="TCR">{{cite web|url={{NHC TCR url|id=AL042007_Dean}}|title=Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Dean|access-date=July 24, 2008|date=January 31, 2008|publisher = NOAA|author=Franklin, James L.|format=PDF}}</ref> or 10% of GDP.<ref name="Martinique_GDP">{{cite web|url=http://indexmundi.com/martinique/gdp_(purchasing_power_parity).html|title=Martinique GDP (purchasing power parity)|date=November 1, 2006|access-date=June 29, 2008|publisher=IndexMundi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502232741/http://www.indexmundi.com/martinique/gdp_(purchasing_power_parity).html|archive-date=May 2, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> Remarkably the tourism industry withstood the storm well; only a few hotels reported minor damage and the airport opened the day after the hurricane.<ref name="Fodors"/><ref name="MARTINIQUE_For_Imd_release">{{cite web|author=Christel Coïta|publisher=For Immediate Release|date=August 21, 2007|access-date=July 24, 2008|title=Martinique Tourism Industry Withstands Hurricane Dean|url=http://www.forimmediaterelease.net/pm/521.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313170152/http://www.forimmediaterelease.net/pm/521.html|archive-date=March 13, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Martinique_Govt_com">{{cite web|author=Steve Bennett|publisher=Martinique Promotion Bureau|date=September 20, 2007|access-date=July 24, 2008|title=Hotels report minor cosmetic damage; airport re-opened Saturday, August&nbsp;18|url=http://www.martinique.org/contacts/press.htm|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080626192724/http://www.martinique.org/contacts/press.htm|archive-date=June 26, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Other than landscaping damage, all of the island's hotels were fully functional by the end of August.<ref name="Fodors"/>

The French Overseas Minister, Christian Estrozy and French Prime Minister, [[François Fillon]] visited French Caribbean island to assess the storm's damage. They estimated the storm left 600&nbsp;people homeless. The brevity of their visit prompted some of Martinique's famous writers, including [[Edouard Glissant]], [[Patrick Chamoiseau]] and [[Raphael Confiant]], to write an open letter airing their grievances concerning French politics and the handling of Hurricane Dean's impact.<ref name="caribnews_guad_aug_23">{{cite news
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François Fillon then visited Guadeloupe and brought with him a team of experts from the Ministry of the Interior to assess the nature and cost of the damage.<ref name="caribnews_guad_aug_21">{{cite news|url=http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/guadeloupe/guadeloupe.php?news_id=3139&start=0&category_id=33 |title=French PM to visit hurricane-hit Caribbean islands |access-date=June 29, 2008 |date=August 21, 2007 |publisher=Caribbean Net News |agency=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005204500/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/guadeloupe/guadeloupe.php?news_id=3139&start=0&category_id=33 |archive-date=October 5, 2007 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> The local government reported to them that 75% of Guadeloupe's banana plantations, valued at €100&nbsp;million, were totally destroyed.<ref name="TCR"/> Despite promises by Overseas Minister [[Christian Estrosi]] that all problems would be resolved within three months,<ref name="caribnews_guad_aug_30">{{cite news|url=http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/guadeloupe/guadeloupe.php?news_id=3302&start=0&category_id=33 |title=Dean caused 500m euro damage in French Caribbean |access-date=June 29, 2008 |date=August 30, 2007 |publisher=Caribbean Net News |agency=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005204104/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/guadeloupe/guadeloupe.php?news_id=3302&start=0&category_id=33 |archive-date=October 5, 2007 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> it took over six months to restart banana production, and several more to restore lost capacity.<ref name="caribnews_guad_aug_18">{{cite news|url=http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/guadeloupe/guadeloupe.php?news_id=3093&start=0&category_id=33 |title=Hurricane destroys Guadeloupe, Martinique bananas |access-date=June 29, 2008 |date=August 18, 2007 |publisher=Caribbean Net News |agency=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005204340/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/guadeloupe/guadeloupe.php?news_id=3093&start=0&category_id=33 |archive-date=October 5, 2007 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> Other than the crop damage, the island suffered only minor wind and flooding damage, both of which were quickly repaired.<ref name="UN_News_Aug_21">{{cite web|url = https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23562&Cr=hurricane&Cr1=|title = UN teams assessing aftermath in Caribbean nations hit by Hurricane Dean|access-date = June 29, 2008|date = August 21, 2007|publisher = UN News Center|author = UN News Service|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305084438/http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23562&Cr=hurricane&Cr1=|archive-date = March 5, 2016|url-status = live}}</ref>

===Jamaica===
{{main|Effects of Hurricane Dean in the Greater Antilles}}
[[File:1261116988 d1ee7382cb o.jpg|thumb|Heavy machinery clearing sand off the road to [[Norman Manley International Airport]], Kingston, Jamaica, after it was buried by Hurricane Dean]]

On August 24, [[Jamaican Prime Minister]] [[Portia Simpson-Miller]] announced that her government would provide [[Jamaican dollar|JA]]$225&nbsp;million (US$3.2&nbsp;million) in emergency assistance to the country's agriculture sector. This aid was targeted at the country's hardest-hit parishes.<ref name="reliefweb_jam_ag_2007-08-24_01">{{cite web|author=Government of Jamaica|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 24, 2007|access-date=August 26, 2007|title=Jamaica: $225&nbsp;million in emergency aid for agricultural sector|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76E4AQ?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195139/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76E4AQ?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> She also announced a JA$500&nbsp;million (US$7.1&nbsp;million) programme to provide grants and low-interest loans for emergency housing repairs. Temporary tarpaulins were also provided to patch roofs at no cost.<ref name="reliefweb_jam_house_2007-08-24">{{cite web|author=Government of Jamaica|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 24, 2007|access-date=August 26, 2007|title=Jamaica: NHT establishes $500&nbsp;million loan fund for emergency repairs|url=http://jis.gov.jm/nht-establishes-500-million-loan-fund-for-emergency-repairs/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121134743/http://jis.gov.jm/nht-establishes-500-million-loan-fund-for-emergency-repairs/|archive-date=January 21, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

The World Food Program immediately placed 5,500&nbsp;Jamaicans on complementary food assistance, a daily ration of 1900&nbsp;[[Joule|kJ]] (450&nbsp;[[Calorie|kcal]]) of [[High Energy Biscuits]], for two weeks.<ref name="WFP_aug_30">{{cite web |url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WFP/273c26b985877efbe3edcfa7a95dc2fd.htm |title=Hurricane Dean aftermath: WFP assisting over 10,000&nbsp;victims in Jamaica and Belize |access-date=June 29, 2008 |date=August 30, 2007 |agency=Reuters |author=World Food Program |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817112831/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WFP/273c26b985877efbe3edcfa7a95dc2fd.htm |archive-date=August 17, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> Within three days US$398,000 of pre-prepared [[United States Agency for International Development]] (USAID) emergency supplies arrived on the island. The airlift was composed mostly of mattresses, blankets, plastic sheeting, hygiene kits and water containers.<ref name="reliefweb_jam_USAID_2007-08-24"/> The [[Inter-American Development Bank]] (IDB) provided a US$200,000 grant to support the relief effort<ref name="reliefweb_jam_IDB_2007-08-24">{{cite web|author=Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 24, 2007|access-date=August 26, 2007|title=IDB approves US$200,000 grant for relief efforts in Jamaica|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EDIS-76DLTG?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200019/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EDIS-76DLTG?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Chinese Red Cross, despite dealing with [[Typhoon Sepat (2007)|Typhoon Sepat]], sent US$30,000 to its Jamaican counterpart for the purchase of emergency relief supplies.<ref name="reliefweb_jam_redcross_2007-08-25">{{cite web|author=Government of Jamaica|publisher=Relief Web|date=August 25, 2007|access-date=August 26, 2007|title=Jamaica: Chinese Red Cross donates US$30,000 for hurricane relief|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76E46F?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201406/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76E46F?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref>

In December, four months after the hurricane struck the island, the World Bank's board of directors approved a US$10&nbsp;million emergency loan.<ref name="Relief_Web_Jam_Dec_20">{{cite web |url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-7A47FW?OpenDocument |title=World Bank approves US$10&nbsp;million to restore basic community infrastructure in the aftermath of Hurricane Dean |access-date=June 29, 2008 |date=December 20, 2007 |publisher=Relief Web |author=The World Bank Group |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217153911/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/KHII-7A47FW?OpenDocument |archive-date=February 17, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> World Bank Director for the Caribbean and the Jamaican Finance Minister negotiated a 17-year repayment plan, and endowed the money into the Jamaica Hurricane Dean Emergency Recovery Project. The [[Jamaica Social Investment Fund]], which was charged with implementing the project, used the money to "rebuild and support schools, health centers, and community and farm roads affected by the hurricane".<ref name="Relief_Web_Jam_Jan_8">{{cite web |url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MUMA-7AQ84E?OpenDocument |title=Jamaica receives US$10&nbsp;million to restore basic community infrastructure in the aftermath of Hurricane Dean |access-date=June 29, 2008 |date=January 8, 2008 |publisher=Relief Web |author=The World Bank Group |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217153816/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MUMA-7AQ84E?OpenDocument |archive-date=February 17, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="World_Bank_Jam_Loan">{{cite web |url=http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?Projectid=P109575&theSitePK=40941&pagePK=64283627&menuPK=228424&piPK=73230 |title=Jamaica Hurricane Dean ERL |access-date=June 29, 2008 |date=January 8, 2008 |publisher=The World Bank Group |author=The World Bank Group |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111226162608/http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&piPK=73230&theSitePK=40941&menuPK=228424&Projectid=P109575 |archive-date=December 26, 2011}}</ref> The Hurricane Dean Emergency Recovery Project finally kicked off in June 2008, with the issuance of rural road repair contracts valued at JA$37&nbsp;million (US$520,000).<ref name="JIS_June)26">{{cite web |url=http://jis.gov.jm/hurricane-dean-recovery-project-to-be-launched-on-friday/ |title=Jamaica Hurricane Dean Recovery Project to be Launched on Friday |access-date=June 29, 2008 |date=June 26, 2008 |agency=Jamaica Information Service |author=Office of the Prime Minister |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317023952/http://jis.gov.jm/hurricane-dean-recovery-project-to-be-launched-on-friday/ |archive-date=March 17, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

By the end of the summer on 2008, banana production in Jamaica was returning to pre-Dean levels. With the help of JA$1.1&nbsp;billion (US$15.5&nbsp;million) of aid from the EU's [[Banana Support Programme]], thousands of acres were replanted. Banana chips were the first products ready for export at the beginning of the summer, with fresh banana production following shortly thereafter.<ref name="Min_of_Ag_Jam_Bananas">{{cite web |author=Chris Patterson |publisher=Government of Jamaica, Ministry of Agriculture |date=June 25, 2008 |access-date=July 24, 2008 |title=Banana Industry to be Fully Recovered by the End of Summer |url=http://jis.gov.jm/banana-industry-to-be-fully-recovered-by-the-end-of-summer/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313181005/http://jis.gov.jm/banana-industry-to-be-fully-recovered-by-the-end-of-summer/ |archive-date=March 13, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Mexico===
{{main|Effects of Hurricane Dean in Mexico}}
[[File:Costa maya from cruise ship.jpg|right|thumb|[[Costa Maya]], Mexico. The pier and resort seen here were destroyed by Hurricane Dean but rebuilt the following year.]]
Although Dean's landfall in Mexico occurred in a relatively uninhabited area and the storm's well-predicted track gave ample warning, the storm inflicted extreme damage. In [[Majahual]], the only town to experience the full force of the hurricane, hundreds of buildings were destroyed.<ref name="TCR"/> Quintana Roo Governor [[Félix González Canto]] reported that although the cleanup in the state capital of Chetumal was completed within three weeks, it took more than six months to fix all of the region's more rural roads.<ref name="Fodors"/> Unable to handle the hurricane's aftermath, the state government appealed to federal authorities for aid. Together, they established a housing-repair fund which contributed to the reconstruction of over 37,000&nbsp;residences.<ref name="Calderon_speech">{{cite web |author=Miguel Hidalgo |publisher=Relief Web |date=October 31, 2007 |access-date=August 21, 2008 |title=México: El Presidente Calderón en la entrega de viviendas a damnificados por el Huracán Dean |url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LRON-78JF7E?OpenDocument |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20071119231058/http%3A//www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LRON%2D78JF7E?OpenDocument |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 19, 2007 |language=es}}</ref>

The cruise port of Puerto [[Costa Maya]] was severely damaged, causing [[Carnival Cruise Lines]] and [[Royal Caribbean International|Royal Caribbean Cruises]], the world's two largest cruise operators, to divert away from the port until at least 2009.<ref name="LATimes_Cruise">{{cite web |agency=Associated Press |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 19, 2007 |access-date=July 24, 2008 |title=Much Hurricane Dean damage at Mexico's Puerto Costa Maya |url=http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-hurricane-dean-damage-at-mexico-port19sep07?parent=tours-cruises&type=interests |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930155346/http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-hurricane-dean-damage-at-mexico-port19sep07?parent=tours-cruises&type=interests |archive-date=September 30, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The Mexican government was quick to fund rebuilding of the destroyed concrete piers<ref name="fund_piers">{{cite web |author=Maite Velez-Couto |publisher=Valente Travel Inc. |date=September 11, 2007 |access-date=January 7, 2011 |title=Costa Maya begins rebuilding process |url=http://www.valentetravel.com/newsdetails.php?id=123 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105195404/http://www.valentetravel.com/newsdetails.php?id=123 |archive-date=January 5, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> which, by June 2008, were rebuilt to accommodate even larger ships than before.<ref name="NETCOT">{{cite web |publisher=Caribbean News Digital |date=October 9, 2008 |access-date=September 19, 2008 |title=Costa Maya Reopens with New Zip-Line Adventure |url=http://www.caribbeannewsdigital.com/en/noticia/costa-maya-reopens-new-zip-line-adventure |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193022/http://www.caribbeannewsdigital.com/en/noticia/costa-maya-reopens-new-zip-line-adventure |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The federal government was initially lauded for its swift and thorough preparation to which most observers, including the United Nations, attributed Dean's low death toll.<ref name="scoop_aug_2007">{{cite web |author=United Nations |work=Scoop Independent News |date=August 22, 2007 |access-date=July 28, 2008 |title=UN Teams Assessing Aftermath Of Hurricane Dean |url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00568.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312213604/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00568.htm |archive-date=March 12, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="UN_applauds">{{cite web |author=Diego Cevallos |agency=Interpress Service |date=August 24, 2007 |access-date=July 28, 2008 |title=Mexico: U.N. applauds nation for hurricane disaster prevention |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-167983680.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611091103/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-167983680.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 11, 2014}}</ref> However, after the storm there were several accusations of political motivation in the distribution of aid. Members of President [[Felipe Calderón]]'s [[National Action Party (Mexico)|Partido Accion Nacional]] (PAN) distributed bags of bread, funded by the nation's disaster relief coffers, carrying the party's logo. In Veracruz, Governor Fidel Herrera was accused by both the PAN and his own [[Partido Revolucionario Institucional]] (PRI) of using state resources, including hurricane relief, to support the campaigns of PRI candidates.<ref name="goliath_mex">{{cite web |author=SourceMex |publisher=Goliath Business Knowledge on Demand |date=August 29, 2007 |access-date=July 28, 2008 |title=Hurricane Dean causes minimal damage in Mexico despite storm's high intensity |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/HURRICANE+DEAN+CAUSES+MINIMAL+DAMAGE+IN+MEXICO+DESPITE+STORM'S+HIGH...-a0168182376 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313154114/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/HURRICANE%2BDEAN%2BCAUSES%2BMINIMAL%2BDAMAGE%2BIN%2BMEXICO%2BDESPITE%2BSTORM%27S%2BHIGH...-a0168182376 |archive-date=March 13, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Retirement===
{{see also|List of retired Atlantic hurricane names}}
Due to the hurricane's widespread impact, the name ''Dean'' was retired by the [[World Meteorological Organization]] in May 2008, and it will never be used again for an Atlantic [[tropical cyclone]]. The name was replaced with ''Dorian'' for the [[2013 Atlantic hurricane season|2013 season]].<!-- Mention of Dorian's retirement is irrelevant. --><ref name="2008-13 names">{{cite web |title=Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Names |date=May 13, 2008 |publisher=National Hurricane Center |location=Miami, Florida|access-date=May 14, 2008 |url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516230850/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml |archive-date=May 16, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080513_stormnames.html|title = Dean, Felix and Noel "Retired" from List of Storm Names|access-date=May 13, 2008|date=May 13, 2008|publisher=NOAA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807135700/http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080513_stormnames.html|archive-date=August 7, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Tropical cyclones}}
* [[List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes]]
* [[List of Mexico hurricanes]]
:* [[Hurricane Janet]] (1955) – Slammed into the Yucatán Peninsula as a Category&nbsp;5 hurricane
:* [[Hurricane Beulah]] (1967) – Category&nbsp;5 hurricane that took a similar path.
:* [[Hurricane Emily (2005)]] – Category&nbsp;5 hurricane that took a similar path.
:* [[Hurricane Beryl]] (2024) – Category&nbsp;5 hurricane that took a similar path.

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Hurricane Dean}}
{{Wikinews|Hurricane Dean is upgraded to a Category 2 storm | Hurricane Dean now a Category 4 storm | Hurricane Dean forecasted to become "catastrophic" Category 5 storm | Weakening Dean makes landfall on Mexican coast | Hurricane Dean makes second landfall; weakens to category 1 storm}}
{{Commons category-inline|Hurricane Dean}}
* The NHC's [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/DEAN.shtml? archive on Hurricane Dean]
* Hurricane Dean came to [https://web.archive.org/web/20121108200142/http://picasaweb.google.com/dshphoto/20070823ChandlerAZHurricaneDeanIsComingDownFromMexicoToArizona Chandler, AZ, McQueen & Pecos, view to the South from Chandler Ranch]
* {{NHC TCR url|id=AL042007_Dean|title=Tropical Cyclone Report}}
* Images of [http://www.stormchaser.ca/Hurricanes/Dean/Dean.html? Hurricane Dean]
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