Hurricanes

Newspaper articles about hurricanes tell stories of those affected by some of Mother Nature's most powerful disasters. From the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in US history, to Hurricane Katrina, the costliest hurricane in US history, nature has shown that these storms have been and will continue to be a part of our world far into the future.

The United States has experienced hundreds of hurricanes since the first recorded incident in 1815. Hurricanes have been responsible for nearly 40,000 deaths in North and Central America since 1900. The amount of damage caused by hurricanes is difficult to calculate, but it is easily several hundred billion dollars as Hurricane Katrina alone caused $75 billion in damage to Louisiana and Mississippi.

NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest database of historic newspapers online, is providing a free archive on hurricanes. The archive includes stories of hurricanes from the distant past as well as from recent memory. The newspapers contained in the archive allow you to read stories about hurricanes from the first half of the 20th century, such as the "Long Island Express" of 1930, as well as newspaper coverage from all of the most memorable named storms, such as Carol, Donna, Camille, David, Hugo, Michael and Katrina. Click on the timeline above to view newspapers in chronological order or begin searching the newspaper pages with your own key words.