Hurricane Allen

• Year: 1980
• Location: Made landfall on South Padre Island, Texas
• Peak wind speed: 300 km/h
• Deaths: 269
• What happened: Allen is believed to be the only hurricane in the history of the Atlantic Basin to reach sustained winds of 186 mph. The storm’s winds were so powerful that until Hurricane Patricia in 2015, Allen’s peak wind speed was the highest sustained wind in the Western Hemisphere.

Hurricane Wilma

• Year: 2005
• Location: Made landfall in Cape Romano, Florida
• Peak wind speed: 300 km/h
• Deaths: 52
• What happened: Another powerful hurricane, Wilma is considered the most intense cyclone in the history of the Atlantic basin and the second most intense in the Western Hemisphere in terms of barometric pressure. The same year as another infamous hurricane, Katrina, it was part of the devastating 2005 hurricane season.

Hurricane Andreas

• Year: 1992
• Location: Elliot Key, Florida, about nine miles east of Homestead
• Peak wind speed: 175 km/h
• Deaths: 65
• What happened: The Category 5 hurricane is considered one of the most destructive hurricanes to hit Florida. Andrew was the costliest hurricane in Florida history until Hurricane Irma passed over it 25 years later. According to the National Hurricane Center, Irma caused approximately $77 billion dollars in damage.

Hurricane Katrina

• Year: 2005
• Location: Three landfalls, one in Keating Beach, Florida and two others near Buras, Louisiana and near the Louisiana-Mississippi border
• Peak wind speed: 275 km/h
• Deaths: 1,392
• What happenedAccording to the National Hurricane Center, Katrina ranks as the deadliest storm since 1950 and is tied with Hurricane Harvey as the costliest Atlantic hurricane on record. The biggest reason for Katrina-related deaths was the failure of the levees around New Orleans, which caused catastrophic flooding in the area.