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Hurricane Ian was a devastating tropical cyclone which, at the time, was the third costliest weather disaster on record worldwide. It was also the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, and the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Michael in 2018.
According to the Florida Medical Examiners Commission, as of February 3, 2023, 149 people were confirmed to have died across Florida as a direct result of Hurricane Ian. [44] 72 of those deaths occurred in Lee County, and 9 occurred in neighboring Charlotte County.
Hurricane Ian killed at least 148 people in Florida in September. Many of those deaths were preventable, an NBC News investigation found.
Hurricane Ian death toll rises in storm-stricken areas. ... September 29, 2022 at 1:16 PM. U.S. Coast Guard aircrew hoists people from flooded areas near Sanibel, Florida in the wake of Hurricane ...
Rescuers evacuated stunned survivors on a large barrier island cut off by Hurricane Ian and Florida's death toll climbed sharply, as hundreds of thousands of people were still sweltering without ...
Boats are pushed up on a causeway after Hurricane Ian passed through the area on September 29, 2022 in Fort Myers, Florida. (Joe Raedle/) DeSantis said regarding the death toll, “None of that is ...
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 ...
Most of the deaths in Hurricane Ian were from drowning, according to official accounts of fatalities from a storm that has killed at least 70 people, according to authorities.