List of Atlantic hurricane seasons

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Template:Short description This is a list of Atlantic hurricane seasons, which covers the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic Ocean. Historical records of hurricane seasons date back to the 1800s, and these hurricanes and tropical storms can affect Central America, the United States, and Canada. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, and this period is when most tropical activity occurs, with the peak occurring in September. Although storms can form outside of these months as well.

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1494–1850 (pre-HURDAT era)

Period Seasons Individual years
Pre-19th century Pre-17th century (pre 1600), 17th century (1600s), 18th century (1700s) 1780
1800–1850 1800–1809, 1810–1819, 1820–1829, 1830–1839, 1840–1849 1842, 1850.

1851–1899 (within HURDAT data)

1850s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Strongest storm Major landfalling storms Notes
1851 6 3 1 36.24 24 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Agapito" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Agapito" First Atlantic hurricane season to be included in the HURDAT.
1852 5 5 1 73.28 100+ <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Great Mobile" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Great Mobile" One of three seasons in which all known cyclones became hurricanes.
1853 8 4 2 76.49 40 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Three Earliest known Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
1854 5 3 1 31.00 30+ <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "South Carolina" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "South Carolina"
1855 5 4 1 18.12 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Middle Gulf Shore" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Middle Gulf Shore"
1856 6 4 2 48.94 200+ <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Last Island" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Southeastern States"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Last Island"
1857 4 3 0 46.84 424 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  SS Central America Disaster
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Four
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  SS Central America Disaster
1858 6 6 0 44.79 None <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Three
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Six
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Hurricane Three One of three seasons in which all known cyclones became hurricanes.
1859 8 7 1 55.73 Numerous <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Six <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Hurricane Five
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Hurricane Six
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Hurricane Eight

1860s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Strongest storm Major landfalling storms Notes
1860 7 6 1 62.06 60+ <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  One <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Hurricane One
1861 8 6 0 49.71 22+ <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  One
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Three
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  "Key West"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  "Expedition"
1862 6 3 0 46.03 3 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Two
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Three
1863 9 5 0 50.35 90 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Amanda" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Amanda"
1864 5 3 0 26.55 None <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  One
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Three
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Five
1865 7 3 0 49.13 326 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Four
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Seven
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Hurricane Four
1866 7 6 1 83.65 383 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Nassau" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Nassau"
1867 9 7 1 59.97 811 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Narciso" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Narciso"
1868 4 3 0 34.65 2 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  One
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Two
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Four
1869 10 7 1 51.02 38 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  New England Gale <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  New England Gale
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Saxby Gale

1870s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Strongest storm Major landfalling storms Notes
1870 11 10 2 87.80 2,052 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Four <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "First Key West"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Second Key West"
1871 8 6 2 88.39 30 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Three
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Santa Juana"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Hurricane Three
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Santa Juana"
1872 5 4 0 65.38 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Two
1873 5 3 2 69.47 626 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Central Florida" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Central Florida"
1874 7 4 0 47.05 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Seven
1875 6 5 1 72.48 800 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Indianola" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Indianola"
1876 5 4 2 56.05 19 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Felipe" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Felipe"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Cuba-South Florida"
1877 8 3 1 73.36 34 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Florida Panhandle" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Florida Panhandle"
1878 12 10 2 180.85 108 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Seven <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Gale of 1878 First known above-average season (in modern-day terms)
1879 8 6 2 63.63 47 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Louisiana" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Great Beaufort"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Louisiana"

1880s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Strongest storm Major landfalling storms Notes
1880 11 9 2 131.08 133 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Eight <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Hurricane Two
1881 7 4 0 59.25 700 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Georgia" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Georgia"
1882 6 4 2 59.47 6 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Cuba" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Pensacola"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Cuba"
1883 4 3 2 66.70 236 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Two <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Bahamas-North Carolina"
1884 4 4 1 72.06 8 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Two
1885 8 6 0 58.30 25 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Two
1886 12 10 4 166.17 200+ <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Indianola" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Indianola"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Cuba"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Texas-Louisiana"
Seven hurricanes struck the United States, the most during a single year.[1]
1887 19 11 2 181.26 2 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Seven Record five off-season storms.
1888 9 6 2 84.95 924 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Gil" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Louisiana"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Gil"
1889 9 6 0 104.04 40 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Six

1890s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Strongest storm Major landfalling storms Notes
1890 4 2 1 33.35 14 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Three
1891 10 7 1 116.11 700+ <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Martinique" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Martinique"
1892 9 5 0 115.84 16 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Three
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Five
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Seven
1893 12 10 5 231.15 4,028 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Cheniere Caminada" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Roque"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "New York"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Sea Islands"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Charleston"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Cheniere Caminada"
Two hurricanes caused more than 2,000 deaths in the United States.
Four simultaneous hurricanes on August 22, one of two times on record.
1894 7 5 4 135.42 200+ <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Six <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Florida Panhandle"
1895 6 2 0 68.77 56 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Two
1896 7 6 2 136.08 286 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Cedar Keys" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Ramón"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Cedar Keys"
1897 6 3 0 54.54 262 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  One
1898 11 5 1 113.24 562 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Georgia" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Georgia"
1899 10 5 2 151.03 4,167 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "San Ciríaco" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "San Ciríaco" The San Ciríaco hurricane was the longest-lasting Atlantic hurricane on record

1900s

NOTE: In the following tables, all estimates of damage costs are expressed in contemporaneous US dollars (USD).

1900s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest storm Major landfalling storms Notes
1900 7 3 2 83.35 8,000+ $35.4M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Galveston" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Galveston" The Galveston hurricane was the deadliest disaster in the United States.
1901 13 6 0 98.98 35-40 $1M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Seven <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  "Louisiana"
1902 5 3 0 32.65 5 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Four
1903 10 7 1 102.07 222 $18.5M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Jamaica" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Jamaica"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  "Florida"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "New Jersey"
1904 6 4 0 30.35 112 $2.5M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Two <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  One
1905 5 1 1 28.38 8 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Four
1906 11 6 3 162.88 381 $25.4M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Four <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Mississippi"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Florida Keys"
1907 5 0 0 13.06 None Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> TS  One One of two seasons with no recorded hurricanes, the other being 1914.
1908 10 6 1 95.11 37 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Six Includes the only known March tropical cyclone in the basin.
1909 12 6 4 93.34 4,673 $77.3M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Grand Isle" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Velasco"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Monterrey"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Grand Isle"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Florida Keys"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Greater Antilles"

1910s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest storm Major landfalling storms Notes
1910 5 3 1 63.90 100 $1.25M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Cuba" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Cuba"
1911 6 3 0 34.29 27 $3M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Three
1912 7 4 1 57.26 116 $1.6M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Jamaica" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Jamaica"
1913 6 4 0 35.60 5 $4M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Four
1914 1 0 0 2.53 0 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> TS  One Least active season on record.
One of two seasons with no recorded hurricanes, along with 1907.
1915 6 5 3 130.10 675 $63M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "New Orleans" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Galveston"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "New Orleans"
Two Category 4 hurricanes made landfall in the United States.
1916 15 10 5 144.01 31 $5.9M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Texas" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Gulf Coast"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Charleston"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Texas"
1917 4 2 2 60.67 76 $170,000 <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Nueva Gerona" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Nueva Gerona"
1918 6 4 1 39.87 55 $5M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Louisiana" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Louisiana"
1919 5 2 1 55.04 828 $22M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Florida Keys" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Florida Keys"

1920s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest storm Major landfalling storms Notes
1920 5 4 0 29.81 1 $1.5M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Louisiana" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Louisiana"
1921 7 5 2 86.53 6 $36.5M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Tampa Bay" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "San Pedro"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Tampa Bay"
1922 5 3 1 54.52 105 $2.3M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Two
1923 9 4 1 49.31 15 $1.3M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Five
1924 11 5 2 100.19 179 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Cuba" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Cuba" First official Category 5 Atlantic hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale.
1925 4 1 0 7.25 59+ $19.9M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  One <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> TS  "Florida"
1926 11 8 6 229.56 1,448 $247.4M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Miami" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Nassau"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Nova Scotia"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Louisiana"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Miami"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Havana–Bermuda"
1927 8 4 1 56.48 184 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Nova Scotia" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Nova Scotia"
1928 6 4 1 83.48 4,289 $102M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Okeechobee" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Okeechobee" Least active season that featured a category 5 hurricane, tied with 1977.

One of five seasons to have a category 5 as the sole major hurricane of the season.

1929 5 3 1 48.07 62 $10.0M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Bahamas" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Bahamas"

1930s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest storm Major landfalling storms Notes
1930 3 2 2 49.77 8,000 $50M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "San Zenón" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "San Zenón" The San Zenón hurricane was the fifth deadliest on record.
Second least active season in terms of tropical storms.
1931 13 3 1 47.84 2,502 $7.5M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "British Honduras" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "British Honduras"
1932 15 6 4 169.66 3,315 $37M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Cuba" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Freeport"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Bahamas"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "San Ciprián"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Cuba"
Only season with a Category 5 hurricane in November, which was the longest lasting category 5, at 3.6 days.

First season to have multiple (more than one) Category 5 hurricanes.

1933 20 11 6 258.57 651 $86.6M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Tampico" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Chesapeake–Potomac"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Cuba–Brownsville"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Treasure Coast"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Outer Banks"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Tampico"
Fourth most active season on record.

Most Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) in an Atlantic season on record. But until 2005 we had 28 named storms.

1934 13 7 1 79.07 2,017 $4.26M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Thirteen
1935 8 5 3 106.21 2,604 $12.5M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Labor Day" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Labor Day"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Cuba"
Most intense landfalling Atlantic hurricane known to date ("Labor Day").
1936 17 7 1 99.78 5 $1.23M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Mid-Atlantic"
1937 11 4 1 65.85 0 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Six
1938 9 4 2 77.58 ~700 $290.3M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "New England" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "New England" Earliest-starting season on record (January 3).
1939 6 3 1 43.68 5 Unknown <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Five

1940s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest storm Major landfalling storms Notes
1940 9 6 0 67.79 101 $4.7M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "New England" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "South Carolina"
1941 6 4 3 51.77 63 $10M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Nicaragua" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Texas"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Nicaragua"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Florida"
1942 11 4 1 62.49 17 $30.6M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Matagorda" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Matagorda"
1943 10 5 2 94.01 19 $17.2M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Three <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Surprise" First year of hurricane hunters.
1944 14 8 3 104.45 1,153 $202M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Great Atlantic" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  "Great Atlantic"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Cuba–Florida"
Great Atlantic hurricane was the only Category 5 of the entire decade
1945 11 5 2 63.42 80 $80M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Homestead" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Texas"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Homestead"
1946 7 3 0 19.61 5 $5.2M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Four <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Florida"
1947 10 5 2 88.49 94 $145.3M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Fort Lauderdale" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Fort Lauderdale" (George)
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Cape Sable" (King)
First year of internal Atlantic tropical cyclone naming.[2]
1948 10 6 4 94.98 94 $30.9M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Florida"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Bermuda-Newfoundland"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Florida" (Easy)
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  "Miami" (Fox)
1949 16 7 3 96.45 3 $58.2M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Florida" <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  "Florida"
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  "Texas"

1950s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest storm Retired names Notes
1950 16 11 6 211.28 20 $37M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Dog None First year of external Atlantic tropical cyclone naming

Record-breaking 8 tropical storms in October.

1951 12 8 3 126.33 257 $80M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Easy None
1952 11 5 2 69.08 607 $3.75M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Fox None Includes the only known February tropical cyclone in the basin.
1953 14 7 3 98.51 1 $6M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Carol None First year of female names for storms.[3]
One of only 4 seasons to have both a preseason and postseason storm.

Carol was one of six Category 5 hurricanes whose name was not retired (Carol was retired in 1954 as a Category 3)

1954 16 7 3 110.88 1,069 $752M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Hazel <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Carol
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Edna
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Hazel
Includes Alice, one of two storms in the basin to span two calendar years.[4]
1955 13 9 4 158.17 1,518 $1.2bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Janet <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Connie
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Diane
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Ione
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Janet
1956 12 4 1 56.67 76 $67.8M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Betsy None
1957 8 3 2 78.66 513 $152.5M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Carrie <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Audrey First of only three seasons to feature a major hurricane in June.
1958 12 7 3 109.69 41 $12M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Helene None
1959 14 7 2 77.11 59 $23.3M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Gracie None
Total 128 68 29 1096.38 4,161 $2.54bn Janet 8 names

1960s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest
storm
Retired
names
Notes
1960 8 4 2 72.90 455 $442.34M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Donna <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Donna
1961 12 8 5 188.89 345 $392M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Hattie <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Carla
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Hattie
Two Category 5 hurricanes.
Lowest number of named storms for an extremely active season.

Esther was one of six Category 5 hurricanes whose name was not retired

1962 7 4 0 50.45 39 >$4.88M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Ella None
1963 10 7 3 112.09 7,225 $589M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Flora <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Flora Flora was the sixth-deadliest hurricane on record.
1964 13 7 5 153.04 261 $605M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Cleo <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Cleo
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Dora
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Hilda
1965 10 4 1 86.74 76 $1.45bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Betsy <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Betsy Betsy became the first Atlantic tropical cyclone to inflict at least $1 billion USD in damages.
1966 15 7 3 138.68 1,094 $410M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Inez <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Inez Second of only three seasons to feature a major hurricane in June.
1967 15 6 1 125.43 64 $217M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Beulah <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Beulah First hurricane season in the modern satellite era.
Features the highest number of tropical depressions in a season at the time.

One of five seasons to have a category 5 as the sole major hurricane of the season.

1968 8 5 0 46.60 10 $10M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Gladys None There was one subtropical storm with Category 1 hurricane strength.
1969 18 12 3 149.25 364 $1.7bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Camille <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Camille Tied for the third most hurricanes in a season on record.
Total 116 64 23 1124.09 9,933 $5.82bn Camille 11 names

1970s

Year TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest
storm
Retired
names
Notes
1970 14 7 2 66.63 71 $454M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Celia <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Celia First season of a 24-year period of decreased activity in the Atlantic (-AMO)
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1971 13 6 1 96.53 45 $213M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Edith None Includes first documented hurricane to cross Central America, Irene.

One of five seasons to have a category 5 as the sole major hurricane of the season.

Edith was one of six Category 5 hurricanes whose name was not retired

1972 7 3 0 35.61 122 $2.1bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Betty <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Agnes Includes three subtropical storms.
1973 8 4 1 47.85 15 $18M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Ellen None
1974 11 4 2 68.13 8,260+ $1.97bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Carmen <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Carmen
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Fifi
Includes four subtropical storms.
Fifi was the third-deadliest hurricane on record.
1975 9 6 3 76.06 80 $100M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Gladys <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Eloise
1976 10 6 2 84.17 72 $100M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Belle None Includes two subtropical storms.
1977 6 5 1 25.32 10 $10M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Anita <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Anita Features the strongest Atlantic hurricane to strike Mexico.

Least active season to feature a category 5, tied with 1928.

One of five seasons to have a category 5 as the sole major hurricane of the season.

Highest tropical storm-hurricane ratio in the satellite era

1978 12 5 2 63.22 37 $45M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Greta <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Greta Includes one off-season subtropical storm.
1979 9 6 2 92.92 2,118 $4.3bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  David <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  David
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Frederic
First year for alternating male/female names.
Includes one subtropical storm of Category 1 strength.
Total 99 51 16 657 10,830+ $9.31bn David 9 names

1980s

Year TC TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest
storm
Retired
names
Notes
1980 18 11 9 2 148.94 256 $1bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Allen <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Allen Includes the storm with the highest sustained winds attained so far in the Atlantic.
1981 22 12 7 3 100.38 10 $45M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Harvey None
1982 9 6 2 1 31.50 141 $100M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Debby None
1983 7 4 3 1 17.40 22 $2.6bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Alicia <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Alicia Least active hurricane season in the satellite era, in terms of both named storms and ACE

No storms were active in October.

1984 20 13 5 1 84.30 35 $66M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Diana None Latest forming A-named storm on record.
1985 14 11 7 3 87.98 241 $4.5bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Gloria <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Elena
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Gloria
Hurricane Kate struck Florida on November 21, the latest United States hurricane landfall.
1986 10 6 4 0 35.79 70 $57M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Earl None
1987 14 7 3 1 34.36 10 $90M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Emily None
1988 19 12 5 3 102.99 550 $7bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Gilbert <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Gilbert
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Joan
Included the strongest hurricane on record until 2005
First hurricane since 1978 to cross Central America.

Last until 1996, and 2022 to be a Pacific-Atlantic crossover.

1989 15 11 7 2 135.13 112 $10.7bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Hugo <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Hugo Hugo held the record for costliest U.S. hurricane for 3 years until Andrew.
Total 148 93 52 17 778.71 1,447 $26.2bn Gilbert 7 names

1990s

Year TC TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest
storm
Retired
names
Notes
1990 16 14 8 1 96.80 116 $150M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Gustav <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Diana
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Klaus
No tropical storms or hurricanes made landfall in the United States.
1991 12 8 4 2 35.54 30 $2.5bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Claudette <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Bob Featured the Perfect Storm—a deliberately unnamed hurricane that made landfall in Atlantic Canada.
1992 10 7 4 1 76.22 66 $27bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Andrew <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Andrew Hurricane Andrew was the costliest U.S. hurricane until 2005.

One of five seasons to have a category 5 as the sole major hurricane of the season.

1993 10 8 4 1 38.67 274 $271M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Emily None No storms were active in October.
1994 12 7 3 0 32.02 1,184 $1.56bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Florence None Last season of a 24-year period of decreased activity in the Atlantic (-AMO).
1995 21 19 11 5 227.10 115 $9.3bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Opal <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Luis
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Marilyn
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Opal
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Roxanne
Tied for fifth most active season on record (with 1887, 2010, 2011 and 2012).
First season of an ongoing period of increased activity in the Atlantic (+AMO).
1996 13 13 9 6 166.18 179 $3.8bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Edouard <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Cesar
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Fran
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Hortense
1997 9 8 3 1 40.93 11 $110M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Erika None Least active August (0) and September (1) combined, tied with 1914.
1998 14 14 10 3 181.77 12,000+ $12.2bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Mitch <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Georges
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Mitch
Four simultaneous hurricanes on September 26, the first time since 1893.
Mitch was the deadliest hurricane in over 200 years.
1999 16 12 8 5 176.53 465 $5.9bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Floyd <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Floyd
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Lenny
Most Category 4 hurricanes on record, later tied by 2005 and 2020.
Total 133 110 64 25 1071.75 14,440 $62.7bn Mitch 15 names

2000s

NOTE: In the following tables, all estimates of damage costs are expressed in contemporaneous US dollars (USD).

2000s

Year TC TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest
storm
Retired names Notes
2000 19 15 8 3 119.145 105 $1.3bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Keith <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Keith Features Hurricane Alberto—the longest-traveled hurricane in the Atlantic.
2001 17 15 9 4 110.32 153 $11.4bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Michelle <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> TS  Allison
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Iris
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Michelle
Allison was the first Atlantic tropical storm weaker than a hurricane to have its name retired.
2002 14 12 4 2 67.99 50 $2.5bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Isidore <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Isidore
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Lili
Gustav was the first Atlantic storm that was given a name out of the common six-year rotating lists while subtropical.
2003 21 16 7 3 176.84 93 $6.3bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Isabel <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Fabian
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Isabel
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Juan
Ana formed in April—one of two storms that was given a name to do so.
Includes 3 off-season storms.
2004 16 15 9 6 226.88 3,260 $61.2bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Ivan <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Charley
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Frances
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Ivan
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Jeanne
Featured Ivan, the southernmost hurricane in the basin (9.5°N).
Features 4 hurricanes to make landfall in Florida; Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne (all of which were retired).
2005 31 28 15 7 250.13 3,912 $171.8bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Wilma <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Dennis
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Katrina
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Rita
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Stan
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Wilma
Second-costliest hurricane season on record.
Second most active on record, most active in terms of hurricanes, major hurricanes (tied with 2020), and Category 5 hurricanes.
Most retired names.
The first year to use the Greek alphabet, later also used in 2020.
Includes 1 subtropical storm and 1 subtropical depression.
Emily was one of six Category 5 hurricanes whose name was not retired.
2006 10 10 5 2 78.54 14 $504.4M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Gordon
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Helene
None No storms formed in October.
2007 17 15 6 2 73.89 478 $3.4bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Dean <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Dean
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Felix
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Noel
First season on record with two hurricanes landfalling at Category 5 intensity (Dean and Felix).
2008 17 16 8 5 145.72 1,073 $49.4bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Ike <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Gustav
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Ike
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Paloma
Only year on record in which a major hurricane existed in every month from July through November.
2009 11 9 3 2 52.58 9 $58M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Bill None Second-lowest number of hurricanes in the satellite era.
Total 173 151 74 36 1302.02 9,146 $307.9bn Wilma 24 names

2010s

Year TC TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest
storm
Retired names Notes
2010 21 19 12 5 165.48 393 $7.4bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Igor <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Igor
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 2  Tomas
Fifth most active season on record (tied with 1887, 1995, 2011 and 2012).
2011 20 19 7 4 126.30 112 $17.4bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Ophelia <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Irene Fifth most active season on record (tied with 1887, 1995, 2010 and 2012).
2012 19 19 10 2 132.63 355 $72.3bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Sandy <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Sandy Fifth most active season on record (tied with 1887, 1995, 2010 and 2011).
2013 15 14 2 0 36.12 54 $1.5bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Humberto <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Ingrid Featured one unnamed subtropical storm in December that is currently the most recent post-season tropical cyclone.
First season since 1994 with no major hurricanes, most recent of such.
2014 9 8 6 2 66.73 21 $371.6M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Gonzalo None Featured the fewest tropical storms since 1997.

Most recent to feature no storms before July.

2015 12 11 4 2 62.69 89 $813.9M <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Joaquin <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> TS  Erika
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Joaquin
Erika was the second Atlantic tropical storm to have its name retired, following Tropical Storm Allison in 2001.

Most recent to feature below-average activity

2016 16 15 7 4 141.25 736 ≥$17.5bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Matthew <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Matthew
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 3  Otto
Alex became the first satellite-era January hurricane and the earliest storm of such, beating a 1978 subtropical storm.
2017 18 17 10 6 224.87 3,364 ≥$294.7bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Maria <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Harvey
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Irma
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Maria
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 1  Nate
Arlene formed in April—one of two storms that was given a name to do so.
Costliest tropical cyclone season on record, almost entirely due to Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
2018 16 15 8 2 132.58 172 ≥$50.5bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Michael <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Florence
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Michael
Includes seven storms that were subtropical at one point.
2019 20 18 6 3 132.20 118 $11.6bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Dorian <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Dorian Includes two subtropical storms.
Lorenzo was one of six Category 5 hurricanes whose name was not retired.
Total 166 155 72 30 1220.86 5,413 $474.1bn Maria 16 names

2020s

Year TC TS H MH ACE Deaths Damage Strongest
storm
Retired
names
Notes
2020 31 30 14 7 180.37 432 >$54.3bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Iota <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Laura
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Eta
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Iota
Most active season in terms of tropical depressions and named storms, second most active in terms of hurricanes.
Tied with 2005 for most recorded major hurricanes.
Second and final season after 2005 to use the Greek alphabet.
2021 21 21 7 4 145.55 198 $80.8bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Sam <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Ida Third most active season on record.
2022 16 14 8 2 94.6 307 >$117.7bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Fiona <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Fiona
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Ian
First season not to have above-average activity since 2015 and first with near normal activity since 2007.
First season since 1988 and 1996 with more than one Atlantic–Pacific crossover hurricane (Bonnie and Julia).

First season since 1997 without a storm active in August, first of such during a La Niña year.

2023 21 20 7 3 148.2 19 >$4.2bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Lee None Fourth most active season on record (tied with 1933), most active during an El Niño year.
Featured one unnamed subtropical storm in January.
Lee was one of six Category 5 hurricanes whose name was not retired.
2024 18 18 11 5 161.5 442 $131bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Milton <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Beryl
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 4  Helene
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Milton
Featured Beryl, the earliest forming Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin, and the third of three June major hurricanes.
Featured Milton, tied with Rita of 2005 for the most intense hurricane on record in the Gulf of Mexico.
Featured Oscar, the smallest hurricane recorded in the Atlantic basin.
2025 13 13 5 4 132.6 134 >$10.5bn <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 5  Melissa TBD Second season on record to feature more than two Category 5 hurricanes.
First season since 2015 where no hurricanes made landfall in the United States.
2026 0 0 0 0 0 None None TBD
Total 120 116 52 25 862.82 ≥1,532 >$398.5bn Melissa 9 names

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