Storm Stats
How do Harvey, Irma, and Maria stack up to other powerful cyclones that have made landfall in the United States?
COMPLIED BY ANGELO VERZONI
Harvey ranks as one of the deadliest on U.S. soil in the last 50 years
Deaths from hurricanes in the U.S. from 1967-2017
Katrina (2005, Category 3) - 1,200
Camille (1969, Category 5) - 256
Agnes (1972, Category 1) - 122
Harvey (2017, Category 4) - 82*
Sandy (2012, Tropical Storm) - 72
*based on media reports which may include indirect deaths
All three rank as some of the costliest storms the country has ever seen
Damage estimates from hurricanes in the U.S. from 1900-2017 (in 2017 USD)
Irma (2017, Category 4) - $100 billion*
Maria (2017, Category 5) - $95 billion*
*based on top-end estimates in media reports
And while rainfall was record-breaking during Harvey, it was also significant in Irma and Maria
Katrina and Irene (2011, Category 1) - 17 inches
Just how much water in total did Harvey dump on U.S. soil? Approximately 33 trillion gallons of water fell on Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky, according to a calculation by the Washington Post. That’s enough to fill…
Over 49 million Olympic-sized swimming pools
The Empire State Building 119,228 times
And about 3 percent of the Grand Canyon
(SOURCES: Media reports; National Hurricane Center at NOAA; NASA)