Deadliest hurricanes on record to hit US

WASHINGTON: Hurricane Harvey struck coastal Texas on Friday evening as the most powerful storm to hit the US mainland in more than a decade, bringing the potential for record flooding from a storm surge and rainfall. Following are the deadliest hurricanes to make landfall in the US since 1851, the earliest year for which the National Weather Service keeps such data:

Galveston Hurricane, 1900: The Category 4 storm, which made landfall in Galveston, Texas, ranks as the deadliest weather disaster in US history. It killed at least 8,000 people.

Okeechobee Hurricane, 1928: The Category 4 storm made landfall in Palm Beach County, Florida. An estimated 2,500 people died, but the figure could be as high as 3,000.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005: A Category 3 storm, causing levees and flood walls to fail in dozens of places in New Orleans. More than 1,800 people died.

Atlantic-Gulf Hurricane, 1919: As a Category 4 storm, it killed an estimated 600 people in the Gulf Coast in Texas.

The Great New England Hurricane, 1938: The Category 3 storm caused about 600 deaths.

Florida Keys Labor Day Hurricane, 1935: The storm ripped through the Florida Keys as a Category 5 storm. More than 400 people died.

Hurricane Audrey, 1957: The Category 4 hurricane struck near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing more than 400 people.

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