The 31 Deadliest Atlantic Hurricanes

Rank Name/Areas of Largest Loss Dates Deaths
1. Great Hurricane (Martinique, Barbados, St. Eustatius) 10-16 Oct. 1780 22,000
2. Great Galveston Hurricane 8 Sept. 1900 8,000-12,000
3. Mitch (Honduras, Nicaragua) 22 Oct. - 5 Nov. 1998 9,086
4. Fifi (Honduras) 14-19 Sept. 1974 8,000-10,000
5. Dominican Republic 1-6 Sept. 1930 8,000
6. Flora (Haiti, Cuba) 30 Sept. - 8 Oct. 1963 8,000
7. Pointe-a-Pitre Bay, Guatemala 6 Sept. 1776 6,000
8. Newfoundland Banks 9-12 Sept. 1775 4,000
9. San Ciriaco (Puerto Rico, Carolinas) 8-19 Aug. 1899 3,433
10. Lake Okeechobee (FL, PR, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Turks) 12-17 Sept. 1928 3,411
11. Cuba, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica 4-10 Nov. 1932 3,107
12. Jeanne (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Florida) 13-29 Sept. 2004 3,000
13. Central Atlantic 16-17 Sept. 1782 3,000
14. Martinique Aug. 1813 3,000
15. El Salvador, Honduras 4-8 June 1934 3,000
16. Western Cuba 21-22 June 1791 3,000
17. Barbados 10-11 Aug. 1831 2,500
18. Belize 6-10 Sept. 1931 2,500
19. Yankee (Haiti, Honduras, offshore Jamaica) 19-25 Oct. 1935 2,150
20. David (Dominican Republic, Dominica, U.S.) 29 Aug. - 5 Sept. 1979 2,068
21. Offshore Florida 1781 2,000
22. Sea Islands (South Carolina, Georgia) 27-28 Aug. 1893 2,000-2,500
23. Eastern Gulf of Mexico 17-21 Oct. 1780 2,000
24. Cuba 7-8 Oct. 1870 2,000
25. Chenier Caminanda (Louisiana) 1-2 Oct. 1893 2,000
26. Guadeloupe, Martinique 14-15 Aug. 1666 2,000
27. Katrina (Louisiana, Mississippi) 23-31 Aug. 2005 1,833
28. Martinique Aug. 1767 1,600
29. Mexico 28 Aug. 1909 1,500
30. Western Cuba, Straits of Florida Oct. 1644 1,500
31. Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico 26 July 1825 1,300

U.S. National Hurricane Center publication: The Deadliest Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, 1492 - 1997