List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes facts for kids

A Category 5 hurricane is a hurricane that winds get over 156 mph. This page is a list of the Category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. There are no records of a Category 5 hurricane before 1900; equipment was not as good before that. The season with the most Category 5 hurricanes was in 2005, which had four. The most consecutive years with at least one Category 5 hurricane were 2016 to 2019.

Category 5 hurricanes are very destructive and many Category 5 hurricanes get their names retired after the season. Of the named Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes only four of them have not had their name retired, the four names are: Cleo (1958), Ethel (1960), Edith (1971), and Emily (2005 Atlantic hurricane season|2005).

Category 5 hurricanes

Tracks of all known Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes

This is the list, it is ordered by year of the Category 5 hurricane.

Images for kids

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  Hurricane Dorian near peak intensity over the Abaco Islands on September 1

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  An October Category 5 that hit Cuba, Florida, and The Bahamas in 1924. It was the first hurricane to be officially recognized as a Category 5 on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

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  A collage of all Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes between 1980 and 2022, the most recent one is Lorenzo in 2019.

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  Hurricane Michael as it was making landfall as a Category 5 hurricane in 2018