The
Hurricane of 1900 made
landfall on September 8, 1900 in the city of
Galveston, Texas, in the United States.
[1] It had estimated winds of 145 miles per hour (233 km/h) at landfall, making it a
Category 4 storm on the
Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale.
[2]
It was the deadliest hurricane in US history, and the second costliest
hurricane in US history based on the US dollar's 2005 value (to compare
costs with those of Hurricane Katrina and others).
The
hurricane caused great loss of life with the estimated death toll between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals;
[3] the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths or injuries of any
Atlantic hurricane, after the
Great Hurricane of 1780 and
1998's
Hurricane Mitch. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is the deadliest
natural disaster ever to strike the United States. By contrast, the second-deadliest storm to strike the United States, the
1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, caused more than 2,500 deaths, and the deadliest storm of recent times,
Hurricane Katrina, claimed the lives of approximately 1,800 people.
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