1926 Miami hurricane

Hurricane Seven
Category 4 major hurricane (SSHWS/NWS)
	Surface weather analysis of the hurricane nearing landfall in South Florida on September 18
Formed	11 September 1926
Dissipated	22 September 1926
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 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.^[1]

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

Synoptic weather map of the hurricane passing north of the U.S Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on September 15
Miami hurricane weather map, September 17, 1926 (0865309)
Damage to a home near Miami, Florida
Looking East on Flagler St. from 13th Ave, 24 hours after the hurricane of Sept. 18th 1926
Damage on Fort Lauderdale beach, near Port Everglades
Remains of a bridge at Baker's Haulover Inlet
Miami Beach flooded by storm surge during the hurricane
A house destroyed In Miami Beach after the hurricane
Damage on Miami Beach
Damage to Knight's Chapel in Nokomis