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How rarely do Category 4 or 5 hurricanes make landfall?
Only 81 hurricanes have struck as Category 4 or higher since 1851, or about one every other year on average. A couple have crippled multiple points at that strength. Irma, in 2017, managed to hit five countries as a Category 4 or 5 — the most of any storm in the Atlantic.

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Humberto becomes Category 5 hurricane; second Caribbean storm strengthening
Hurricane Melissa is a Category 5 storm. See where it's headed.
Hurricane Melissa to hit Jamaica as record Category 5 storm shuts down flights
US embassies across the Caribbean have warned citizens to “leave now” or shelter in place as Hurricane Melissa, now a Category 5 storm, approaches Jamaica.

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Hurricane Melissa begins lashing Jamaica as 'catastrophic' Category 5 storm
‘Communities Will Not Survive’: Jamaica Prepares For Worst Ever Storm As Melissa Intensifies to Category 5
Hurricane Melissa Nears Jamaica as ‘Catastrophic’ Storm
Jamie Rhome, the deputy director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, said on Sunday that the combination of a slow moving system and more than three feet of rainfall “is going to create a catastrop...

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What Jamaica will face as Category 5 hurricane makes landfall
Hurricane Melissa turns deadly Category 5 storm; Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba brace for impact
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Three Category 5 Hurricanes In One Atlantic Season A First In 20 Years

These storms are the most intense that the Earth can produce. Melissa, Humberto and Erin were added to the list of rare storms in 2025.

Meet the Hurricane Hunters: The Air Force crew that flies into the eye of storms

Meteorologist Robert Speta has a discussion with Colonel Ryan Rickert on what it's like to fly into hurricanes.

Hurricane Humberto strengthens to Category 5, threatening Puerto Rico; another system takes aim at Carolinas

Hurricane Humberto has intensified into a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, and a separate storm system is targeting the southeastern U.S.

Jamaica braces for Category 4 Hurricane Melissa’s rain, possibly record winds

As an island country in the Caribbean Sea, hurricanes aren’t new in Jamaica. Hurricanes hovering over the island while continuously dumping rain and blasting Category 4 or 5 winds, however, are a different brand.

Will Hurricane Imelda follow in 'footsteps' of other I-named storms? Several have impacted Florida

Names are retired if they are so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity, NOAA said.

Tropical weather in the Atlantic is slamming the Caribbean and may strike Southeast US next

Crews spent Saturday making preparations for an unnamed weather system that is forecast to become Tropical Storm Imelda late Saturday or early Sunday before approaching the coast of South Carolina
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