South Florida Hurricane History since 1960

For reference all storms since 1960 that have made landfall south of the Tampa Bay area on the west coast and south of Cape Canaveral on the east coast (Landfalling Hurricanes only, near misses such as Kate in 1985, Floyd in 1999 and Dennis in 2005 are not listed) Major Hurricanes in bold. (Between 1947 and 1960 South Florida was hit by 13 storms, roughly a storm a year including the Epic "Fort Lauderdale" Hurricane of 1947 and Hurricane King in 1950- the current period seems similar to the 1947-1960 time period and very unlike the 1965 to 1991 time period when we were barely scraped by two category 1 sotorms. That is the period in which most of us moved to Florida and thus until Andrew had never faced the wrath even a "real" Category 1 storm)


1960 Donna Cat 4 landfall: Islamorada, Everglades City
1964 Cleo Cat 2 landfall: Fort Lauderdale
1964 Isbell Cat2 landfall: near Naples
1965 Betsy Cat3 landfall: Key Largo
1966 Inez Cat 1 landfall: Florida City
1979 David Cat 1 landfall: Sebastian
1987 Floyd Cat 1 landfall: Southern Collier County
1992 Andrew Cat 5 landfall: Florida City
1995 Erin Cat 1 landfall: Palm Bay
1998 Georges Cat 2 landfall: Key West
1999 Irene Cat 1 landfall: Flamingo
2004 Charley Cat 4 landfall: Port Charlotte
2004 Frances Cat 2 landfall: Stuart
2004: Jeanne Cat 3 landfall: Stuart
2005: Katrina Cat 1 landfall: Hallandale
2005: Rita Cat 1: landfall Key West