1926 Miami hurricane

The 1926 Miami Hurricane (or the Great Miami Hurricane) was a very large and violent tropical cyclone. The hurricane caused a lot of damage in the Miami metropolitan area of southern Florida and in the Bahamas.

Hurricane Seven

Category 4 major hurricane (SSHWS/NWS)
File:1926 Miami Hurricane analysis 18 Sep 1926.jpg Surface weather analysis of the storm over South Florida on September 18
Formed	11 September 1926 (1926-09-11)
Dissipated	22 September 1926 (1926-09-23)
Highest winds	1-minute sustained: 150 mph (240 km/h)
Lowest pressure	930 mbar (hPa); 27.46 inHg (estimated)
Fatalities	372–539+
Damage	$78.58 million (1926 USD) (Costliest U.S. hurricane when adjusted for wealth normalization)
Areas affected	Turks and Caicos Islands, The Bahamas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
Part of the 1926 Atlantic hurricane season

The storm caused $78.5 million in damage to the United States. Estimates from 2010 put the damage at $165 billion, meaning the storm surpasses Katrina as the costliest U.S. hurricane.

Between 372 and 540 deaths happened because of the hurricane.

1926 Miami Hurricane Media

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  Surface weather map of the hurricane impacting the Bahamas and approaching the Southeast Coast of Florida on September 17

• 1926 Miami hurricane 18 September 1926 4.jpg

  Damage to a home near Miami, Florida

• Miami hurricane weather map 9-18-1926 (3254801).jpg

  Weather map of the hurricane making landfall in South Florida near Miami on September 18

• Looking East on Flagler St. from 13th Ave, 24 hours after the hurricane of Sept. 18th 1926, Miami, edit.jpg

  Looking East on Flagler St. from 13th Ave, 24 hours after the hurricane of Sept. 18th 1926

• 1926 hurricane Fort Lauderdale Beach.jpg

  Damage on Fort Lauderdale beach, near Port Everglades

• Baker's Haulover Inlet 1927.jpg

  Remains of a bridge at Baker's Haulover Inlet

• Miami beach2.jpg

  Damage on Miami Beach

• 1926 hurricane damage to Knights Chapel.jpg

  Damage to Knight's Chapel in Nokomis

• Miami hurricane weather map 9-21-1926 (610974).jpg

  Surface weather map of the hurricane at landfall in Alabama and Mississippi on September 21

• Bridge at Pensacola after the 1926 Miami hurricane.jpg

  Bridge swept away at Pensacola