List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes
List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Hurricane Isabel, as seen from the International Space Station in September 2003. This is a List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes . A total of 33 recorded tropical cyclones have reached Category 5 strength on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale in the Atlantic Ocean north of the equator, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricanes of such intensity occur once every three years in this region on average. Only in six seasons—1932, 1933, 1961, 2005, 2007, and 2017—has more than one Category 5 hurricane formed. Only in 2005 have more than two Category 5 hurricanes formed, and only in 2007 and 2017 did more than one make landfall at Category 5 strength. [1] Contents 1 Background 2 Systems 3 Listed by month 4 Landfalls 5 See also 6 References 7 External links ...