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Miami-Dade County, Florida. Hillsborough County, Florida. A guide to renters insurance in Florida: ... Of the 318 counties that were given a hurricane risk score, these counties have the lowest ...
It might be easier to say what areas of the Sunshine State haven't felt some sort of impact from a tropical storm or hurricane. A total of 301 hurricanes hit the U.S. coast — from Texas to Maine ...
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
August 13 – Hurricane Charley struck southwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest landfall in the continental United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Its eye crossed Cayo Costa and later the mainland at Punta Gorda, before crossing the state with much of its intensity retained. A wind gust of 173 mph (278 km/h) was ...
Hurricane-wise the 1940s were among the state's busiest decades: 11 hurricanes struck from 1944–50, six of them major, including five Category 4 hurricanes in South Florida. Storms catalyzed development: impacts radiated societally, broaching complex political and socioeconomic topics, and lead to epochal changes such as flood control and ...
Hurricane Andrew causes $25.5 billion in damage (1992 USD, $39.2 billion 2008 USD) in south Florida and 15 direct deaths. At the time, Andrew was the costliest North Atlantic hurricane in the history of the United States, though has since dropped to eighth after Hurricanes Katrina , Ike , Irma , Maria , Sandy , Ida and Harvey .
The National Hurricane Center’s peak storm surge forecast map released on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall somewhere along the state’s west coast.
A view from the interior of Hurricane Betsy's eye, taken by Hurricane hunters before its Florida landfall September 8, 1965– Hurricane Betsy passes through the Florida Keys as a major hurricane, producing moderate rainfall reaching 11.8 inches (300 mm) at Plantation Key and wind gusts reaching an estimated peak of 160 mph (255 km/h) in North ...