List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes

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A Category 5 hurricane, on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, is the most catastrophic hurricane that can form. They are rare in the Atlantic Ocean and occur about once every three years. Only three times (1960, 1961 and 2005) have there been multiple Category 5 hurricanes formed in the same season. Only once has the number of Category 5 hurricanes exceeded two in the same season (2005).

A hurricane of this magnitude has winds of 156 mph (251 km/h) or greater.

Between 1928 and 2005, only 28 hurricanes have reached and were recorded as a Category 5. There are no known Category 5 storms occurring before 1928.

In all, eleven Category 5 hurricanes made landfall at that intensity, of which only three (1935 Labor Day hurricane, Camille, Andrew) made landfall in the United States at Category 5. In addition, only three other Category 5 hurricanes (Dog, Easy and Cleo) never made any landfalls at any intensity.

List of Category 5 Hurricanes

Name	Min. pressure	Max. Sustained wind	Date attained	Landfall (Category 5)	Landfall (TS to Cat 4)
Okeechobee Hurricane	929 mbar†	160 mph‡	September 13, 1928	Puerto Rico	Bahamas & Florida (Cat 4)
Not Named	unknown†	160 mph‡	September 5, 1932	Bahamas
Labor Day Hurricane	892 mbar†	160 mph‡	September 3, 1935	Florida Keys	Bahamas (Cat 1)
New England Hurricane of 1938	938 mbar†	160 mph‡	September 19, 1938		New York & Connecticut (Cat 3)
Fort Lauderdale Hurricane	947 mbar†	160 mph‡	September 16, 1947	Bahamas	Florida (Cat 4), Louisiana (Cat 1)
Dog	unknown†	185 mph‡	September 6, 1950
Easy	unknown†	160 mph‡	September 7, 1951
Janet	914 mbar	175 mph‡	September 28, 1955	Mexico
Cleo	948 mbar†	160 mph‡	August 16, 1958
Donna	932 mbar†	160 mph‡	September 4, 1960		Bahamas & Florida (Cat 4), North Carolina, New York & Connecticut (Cat 2)
Ethel	981 mbar†	160 mph‡	September 15, 1960		Mississippi (TS)
Carla	932 mbar†	175 mph‡	September 11, 1961		Texas (Cat 4)
Hattie	920 mbar†	160 mph‡	October 30, 1961		Belize (Cat 4)
Beulah	923 mbar†	160 mph‡	September 20, 1967		Mexico & Texas (Cat 4)
Camille	905 mbar	190 mph‡	August 17, 1969	Mississippi	Cuba (Cat 4)
Edith	943 mbar†	160 mph‡	September 9, 1971	Nicaragua	Belize (TS), Louisiana (Cat 2)
Anita	926 mbar†	175 mph‡	September 2, 1977	Mexico
David	924 mbar	175 mph‡	August 30, 1979	Hispaniola	Dominica, Cuba, Bahamas & Georgia (Cat 1), Florida (Cat 2)
Allen	899 mbar	190 mph‡	August 7, 1980		Texas (Cat 3)
Gilbert	888 mbar	185 mph‡	September 14, 1988	Mexico	Jamaica (Cat 4)
Hugo	918 mbar	160 mph‡	September 15, 1989		Puerto Rico & South Carolina (Cat 4)
Andrew	922 mbar	170 mph‡	August 23, 1992	Florida	Louisiana (Cat 3)
Mitch	905 mbar	180 mph	October 26, 1998		Honduras (Cat 4), Mexico & Florida (TS)
Isabel	915 mbar	165 mph	September 11, 2003		North Carolina (Cat 2)
Ivan	910 mbar	165 mph	September 9, 2004		Grenada & Alabama (Cat 3)
Katrina	902 mbar	175 mph	August 28, 2005		Florida (Cat 1), Louisiana (Cat 4), Mississippi (Cat 3)
Rita	897 mbar	175 mph	September 21, 2005		Louisiana (Cat 3)
Wilma	882 mbar	175 mph	October 19, 2005		Mexico (Cat 4), Florida (Cat 3)

• Date Attained is the date when the storm first achieved Category 5 status. (Several of these storms reached Category 5 more than once)
• Landfall is the place the storm struck land at Category 5 status. (Note that the storm may have affected other land masses at a different category.)
• † Pressure readings for older storms are reliable but incomplete, especially for storms that did not threaten land. The listed pressure is likely not the lowest pressure achieved by the hurricane.
• ‡ Wind readings for storms prior to the mid-1990s are not reliable because it was impossible to measure surface wind speed before dropsondes came into use. Some wind readings may have been updated after re-analysis in the late 1990s.