Cuba is an island country east of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, south of both the U.S. state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Haiti and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. The country has experienced the effects of at least 54 Atlantic hurricanes, or storms that were once tropical or subtropical cyclones, including 37 since 2000. The storms collectively killed 5,613 people, most of them related to a powerful hurricane in 1932.
Month | Number of storms |
---|---|
May | 1
|
June | 5
|
July | 1
|
August | 14
|
September | 11
|
October | 19
|
November | 3
|
Period | Number of storms |
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1800s | 1
|
1900–49 | 9
|
1950s | 2
|
1960s | 3
|
1980s | 1
|
1990s | 1
|
2000s | 25
|
2010s | 12
|
2020s | 2
|
The following is a list of Atlantic tropical storms that caused fatalities in Cuba.
Name | Year | Number of deaths |
---|---|---|
Santa Cruz del Sur | 1932 | 3,033 |
Flora | 1963 | 1,750 |
Fox | 1952 | 600 |
Unnamed | 1933 | 70 |
Unnamed | 1935 | 35 |
Alberto | 1982 | 24 |
Dennis | 2005 | 16 |
Alma | 1966 | 12 |
Sandy | 2012 | 11 |
Irma | 2017 | 10 |
Alberto | 2018 | 10 |
Unnamed | 1944 | 7 |
King | 1950 | 7 |
Ike | 2008 | 7 |
Georges | 1998 | 6 |
Ian | 2022 | 5 |
Unnamed | 1935 | 4 |
Charley | 2004 | 4 |
Matthew | 2016 | 4 |
Cleo | 1964 | 1 |
Noel | 2001 | 1 |
Lili | 2002 | 1 |
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