Hurricanes in the Bahama Archipelago

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Hurricane Dorian at peak intensity while making landfall in the Abaco Islands on September 1, 2019 Dorian 2019-09-01 1641Z.jpg
Hurricane Dorian at peak intensity while making landfall in the Abaco Islands on September 1, 2019

The Bahama Archipelago, also known as the Lucayan Archipelago, is an archipelago comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The archipelago is in the western North Atlantic Ocean, north of Cuba along with the other Antilles, and east and southeast of Florida. The archipelago has experienced the effects of at least 22  Atlantic hurricanes, or storms that were once tropical or subtropical cyclones, including 17 since 2000. The storms collectively killed 101 people.

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Hurricane Dorian in 2019 was the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Bahamas, with one-minute maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (298 km/h), causing $2.5 billion in damage and at least 74 deaths. Dorian was one of four Category 5 hurricanes to strike the Bahamas, the others being the 1932 Bahamas hurricane, the 1933 Cuba–Brownsville hurricane, and Hurricane Andrew in 1992. The most recent hurricane to strike the archipelago was Hurricane Oscar in 2024.

Pre-1900s

1900s

1990—1999

2000s

2000—2009

2010—2019

Hurricane Dorian's destruction in the Bahamas Hurricane Dorian destruction -Bahamas.jpg
Hurricane Dorian's destruction in the Bahamas

2020—present

Climatology

Storms affecting the Bahama Archipelago by month
MonthNumber of storms
May
2
July
2
August
8
September
15
October
7
November
3
Storms affecting the Bahama Archipelago by period
PeriodNumber of storms
1800s
3
1900–49
3
1960s
3
1970s
2
1980s
1
1990s
4
2000s
8
2010s
8
2020s
5

Deadly storms

The following is a list of Atlantic tropical storms that caused fatalities in the Bahama Archipelago.

NameYearNumber of deathsSource
"Great Nassau" 1866387+ [40]
"San Ciriaco" 1899~334 [2]
"Nassau" 1926258–68+ [2]
"Great Andros" 1929142 [41]
"Miami" 1926~123 [2]
Three 1883109 [2]
Eight 190899 [42]
"Florida Keys" 1919≥94–5 [43]
Dorian 201974 (245 missing) [32]
Six 190858+ [44] [45]

See also

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