Impact
| Country | Total deaths |
Direct deaths |
Damage (USD) |
Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belize | 0 | 0 | 7007970000000000000$97 million | |||||
| Dominica | 2 | 2 | 7008162000000000000$162 million | |||||
| Dominican Republic | 6 | 6 | 7007400000000000000$40 million | |||||
| Guadeloupe | 0 | 0 | 7008156000000000000$156 million | |||||
| Haiti | 14 | 14 | 5000000000000000000Unknown | |||||
| Jamaica | 3 | 3 | 7008300000000000000$300 million | |||||
| Martinique | 3 | 0 | 7008400000000000000$400 million | |||||
| Mexico | 13 | 12 | 7008600000000000000$600 million | |||||
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1 | 5000000000000000000None | |||||
| Puerto Rico | 5000000000000000000None | 5000000000000000000None | 7004150000000000000$15 thousand | |||||
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1 | 7006640000000000000$6.4 million | |||||
| US Virgin Islands | 5000000000000000000None | 5000000000000000000None | 7004350000000000000$35 thousand | |||||
| Totals: | 700145000000000000045 | 700141000000000000041 | 7009176100000000000$1.76 billion | |||||
Fifteen countries felt the effects of Hurricane Dean as its path through the Caribbean Sea claimed 42 lives. The hurricane first brushed the Lesser Antilles on August 17, 2007, and as it passed through the interior of the Caribbean its outer rain bands swept over the Greater Antilles. It passed Jamaica as a Category 4 hurricane, and strengthened to a Category 5 storm as it made landfall on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula on August 21. A second landfall on August 22 was less devastating.
Read more about this topic: Hurricane Dean
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