Until Hermine blew through the Florida Panhandle and up into Georgia , Florida had experienced a pleasant , hurricane - free few years . In fact , asThe Weather Channel observe , Florida went nearly eleven year without a individual hurricane making landfall .
The last hurricane to set groundwork in Florida was Hurricane Wilma , a family 3 tempest that made landfall in south Florida back on October 24 , 2005 . Since then 68 Atlantic - based hurricanes have skipped the Sunshine State — more than twice the premature phonograph recording of hurricanes .
66 Atlantic hurricanes have occurred since the last to strike FL ( Wilma-2005 ) – twice the previous disk of 33 between David-1979 & Elena-1985
— Philip Klotzbach ( @philklotzbach)May 10 , 2016
That ’s alarming as , harmonize to the National Hurricane Center , 40 - per centum of Atlantic and Gulf - based hurricanes from 1851 - 2010 affected Florida . The State Department has more coastline than any other state refer the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic , so the betting odds were never in Florida ’s favor .
Yet there ’s no precise reason why Florida ’s hurricane drought lasted so long . Each case of a hurricane skip over the state was entirely unequaled .
While the hurricane drought lasted a record shattering 11 years , Florida was not without its storm . Nine different tropical storm have touched down in Florida mother wit Hurricane Wilma .
[ The Weather Channel ]
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