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Saffir–Simpson scale

System of classifying tropical cyclones into five categories based on measured wind speed and used to estimate potential damage

10 dated entries naming Saffir–Simpson scale, drawn from 9 separate years between 1635 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Category 3 hurricane, Category 4 hurricane, Category 5 hurricane, Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, Saffir-Simpson scale, Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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17th century

  • 1635August 25 – The Great Colonial Hurricane strikes Narragansett Bay as a possible Category 3 hurricane, killing over 46 people.source

20th century

  • 1954October 15 – Hurricane Hazel makes U.S. landfall; it is the only recorded Category 4 hurricane to strike as far north as North Carolinasource
  • 1987November 25 – Category 5 Typhoon Nina smashes the Philippines with 265 km/h winds and a devastating storm surge, causing destruction and 812 deaths.source
  • 1996November 7 – A category 4 cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India, killing at least 1,000 people.source
  • 19967 November – A devastating Category 4 Cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India. The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, over 2,000 people die. 95% of the crops are completely destroyed.source

21st century

  • 2017August 25–30 – Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 108 deaths are recorded, and total damage reaches $125 billion (2017 USD), making Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United States history, tied with Hurricane Katrina in 2005.source
  • 2020September 16 – Hurricane Sally makes landfall on the Alabama coast as a high-end Category 2 hurricane, causing over $8 billion in damages and killing 8 people.source
  • 20226 February – Cyclone Batsirai, a category 4 cyclone on the Saffir–Simpson scale, kills at least 10 people and displaces more than 48,000 after making landfall in Madagascar.source
  • 2024July 1 – Hurricane Beryl becomes the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record after devastating the island of Carriacou, Grenada.source
  • 2025October 28 – Hurricane Melissa makes a catastrophic landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane, with sustained wind speeds up to 160 kn, becoming the strongest hurricane to strike the country in recorded history.source

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