Landfalls
Landfall of a tropical cyclone is defined as the moving of the center of the eye over land. Damages from a tropical cyclone are usually greatest where it makes landfall.
In the below list, the retired hurricanes are listed in chronological order with their landfall locations listed under columns designating their strength on the Saffir-Simpson Scale at the time of landfall. Within a cell, landfalls are listed in chronological order. Two retired hurricanes, Hurricane Klaus and Hurricane Fabian, never made landfall anywhere at any intensity. They are omitted from this list. Some retired systems also made landfall as tropical depressions, but depressions were not reliably tracked until the 1990s and so their landfalls are omitted as well.
| Name | Season | Landfall | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category 5 | Category 4 | Category 3 | Category 2 | Category 1 | Tropical Storm | |||
| Carol | 1954 | New York & Connecticut | ||||||
| Edna | 1954 | Massachusetts & Maine | ||||||
| Hazel | 1954 | North Carolina | Haiti & Bahamas | |||||
| Connie | 1955 | North Carolina | ||||||
| Diane | 1955 | North Carolina | ||||||
| Ione | 1955 | North Carolina | ||||||
| Janet | 1955 | Quintana Roo | Veracruz | |||||
| Audrey | 1957 | Texas | ||||||
| Gracie | 1959 | South Carolina | Bahamas | |||||
| Donna | 1960 | Bahamas & Florida | North Carolina, New York & Connecticut | |||||
| Carla | 1961 | Texas | ||||||
| Hattie | 1961 | British Honduras (Belize) | ||||||
| Flora | 1963 | Haiti | Cuba | Cuba | ||||
| Cleo | 1964 | Guadeloupe & Haiti | Florida | Cuba | Georgia | |||
| Dora | 1964 | Florida | ||||||
| Hilda | 1964 | Louisiana | Cuba | |||||
| Betsy | 1965 | Bahamas, Florida & Louisiana | ||||||
| Inez | 1966 | Haiti, Cuba & Tamaulipas | Cuba & Florida Keys | |||||
| Beulah | 1967 | Quintana Roo | ||||||
| Camille | 1969 | Louisiana & Mississippi | Cuba | |||||
| Celia | 1970 | Texas | ||||||
| Agnes | 1972 | Florida | New York | |||||
| Carmen | 1974 | Quintana Roo | Louisiana | |||||
| Fifi | 1974 | Belize | ||||||
| Eloise | 1975 | Florida | Dominican Republic | Cuba & Quintana Roo | ||||
| Anita | 1977 | Tamaulipas | ||||||
| David | 1979 | Dominican Republic | Florida | Dominica, Cuba, Bahamas & Georgia | ||||
| Frederic | 1979 | Alabama | Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic & Cuba | |||||
| Allen | 1980 | Texas | ||||||
| Alicia | 1983 | Texas | ||||||
| Elena | 1985 | Mississippi | ||||||
| Gloria | 1985 | North Carolina, New York & Connecticut | ||||||
| Gilbert | 1988 | Quintana Roo | Jamaica & Tamaulipas | Nuevo Leon | ||||
| Joan | 1988 | Nicaragua | Venezuela | |||||
| Hugo | 1989 | Puerto Rico & South Carolina | ||||||
| Diana | 1990 | Tamaulipas | Quintana Roo | |||||
| Bob | 1991 | Rhode Island | Maine | |||||
| Andrew | 1992 | Bahamas & Florida | Bahamas | Louisiana | ||||
| Luis | 1995 | Barbuda | ||||||
| Marilyn | 1995 | St. Thomas | ||||||
| Opal | 1995 | Florida | ||||||
| Roxanne | 1995 | Quintana Roo | ||||||
| Cesar | 1996 | Nicaragua | ||||||
| Fran | 1996 | North Carolina | ||||||
| Hortense | 1996 | Puerto Rico | ||||||
| Georges | 1998 | Antigua, St. Kitts, Puerto Rico & Dominican Republic | Florida Keys & Mississippi | Cuba | ||||
| Mitch | 1998 | Honduras | Yucatán & Florida | |||||
| Floyd | 1999 | Bahamas | North Carolina | New York & Connecticut | ||||
| Lenny | 1999 | St. Croix & Saint Martin | Anguilla | Saint-Barthélemy | Antigua | |||
| Keith | 2000 | Tamaulipas | Belize | |||||
| Allison | 2001 | Texas & Louisiana | ||||||
| Iris | 2001 | Belize | ||||||
| Michelle | 2001 | Cuba | Bahamas | |||||
| Isidore | 2002 | Yucatán | Cuba | Louisiana | ||||
| Lili | 2002 | Cuba (twice) | Louisiana | |||||
| Isabel | 2003 | North Carolina | ||||||
| Juan | 2003 | Nova Scotia | Prince Edward Island | Québec | ||||
| Charley | 2004 | Florida | Cuba | South Carolina | ||||
| Frances | 2004 | Bahamas (twice) | Bahamas (twice) & Florida | Florida | ||||
| Ivan | 2004 | Grenada & Alabama | ||||||
| Jeanne | 2004 | Florida | Bahamas | Dominican Republic | Puerto Rico | |||
| Dennis | 2005 | Cuba (twice) | Florida | |||||
| Katrina | 2005 | Louisiana & Mississippi | Florida | |||||
| Rita | 2005 | Texas & Louisiana | ||||||
| Stan | 2005 | Veracruz | Quintana Roo | |||||
| Wilma | 2005 | Quintana Roo (twice) | Florida | |||||
| Dean | 2007 | Quintana Roo | Veracruz | |||||
| Felix | 2007 | Nicaragua | Grenada | |||||
| Noel | 2007 | Haiti, Cuba, Bahamas (twice) | ||||||
| Gustav | 2008 | Cuba (twice) | Louisiana | Haiti | Jamaica (twice) | |||
| Ike | 2008 | Cuba | Bahamas | Texas | Cuba | |||
| Paloma | 2008 | Cuba | ||||||
| Igor | 2010 | Newfoundland | ||||||
| Tomas | 2010 | St. Lucia | Barbados, Turks and Caicos | |||||
| Irene | 2011 | Bahamas (Acklins and Crooked) | Bahamas (three islands) | North Carolina | St. Croix, Puerto Rico, New Jersey, New York | |||
Fabian (2003) and Klaus (1990) are not on the above list because neither made landfall. Rather, they made direct hits on land, Fabian on Bermuda, and Klaus on Barbuda.
Read more about this topic: List Of Retired Atlantic Hurricane Names