Landfalling major hurricanes more common in Mississippi

  Radar loop as Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the MS/LA Gulf Coast August 2005

Mississippi along with several other Gulf Coast States have experienced many hurricanes of various intensities over the years, but more major hurricanes have targeted the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Since 1900, forty major hurricanes have crossed the Gulf Coast, from Texas to the Florida Panhandle.

A total of 16 hurricanes have struck the coast of Mississippi, 9 out of the 16 have been of major hurricane strength. (Categories 3-5)

Eight of those major hurricanes were category 3 storms. One was rated a category 5 storm.

Mississippi's Coast was impacted by the only category 5 hurricane to ever make landfall on the Gulf Coast Region.

That storm is known as Hurricane Camille, which struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast in August  of 1969.

In a matter of fact, 2 out of the 3 most devastating tropical systems to ever impact the Gulf Coast over the last 105 years, struck the coast of Mississippi. (Hurricane Camille of 1969 and Hurricane Katrina of 2005)

(The 1900 Galveston Hurricane was the worst human disaster in American History, with the loss of 6,000 lives)

Legend

Category 3-5 storm track	Category 1-2 storm track
Tropical storm track	Tropical depression track

The most active month(s) for major hurricane strikes in Mississippi over the years?

Since 1851, 4 major hurricanes have occurred both in August and September in Mississippi, 1 other occurred in July. (Both Hurricane Camille and Katrina impacted the state in August)