The number of fatalities caused by Hurricane Ian has reached triple digits.
In the eight days since the hurricane made landfall in southwest Florida, the number of storm-related deaths has increased to at least 101.
The Florida Medical Examiners Commission reported that 98 of the total deaths occurred in Florida. Five people died in North Carolina from the hurricane, three in Cuba, and one in Virginia.
On September 28, Ian slammed Florida’s Gulf Coast after making landfall in Cuba the day before.
The storm, which was moving northeast, crossed Florida, entered the Atlantic, made another landfall in South Carolina, and then continued on to the mid-Atlantic states.
In the twenty-first century, Hurricane Katrina, which killed around 1,800 people in 2005, and Hurricane Ian are the two deadliest storms to have struck the continental United States.
The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which may have killed 8,000 people, was the deadliest hurricane to ever strike the United States.
The hurricane Ian death toll surpasses 100
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