Exclusive club - storms causing $1 billion in 3 countries

[Hurricanehink]

I'm not 100% sure, but I did some research, and it appears that Hurricane Ivan in 2004 is the only tropical cyclone on record in the Atlantic to cause $1 billion in damage in three countries, having done so in Grenada, Cuba, and the US, and also in the Cayman Islands. See - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan#Impact

As far as my research goes, no other storm even did that feat in three countries. Hurricane Georges in 1998 was fairly close, having done $1 billion in damage in the Dominican Republic, the continental United States, and Puerto Rico. I say close because PR isn't an integral part of the US (it's not a state... yet). Several storms have done over $1 billion in damage in two countries (most recently Hurricane Sandy, which did so in Cuba and the US), but it appears that 3 is very unlikely. Outside of the Atlantic, it is next to impossible in the EPAC, SPAC, AUS, Southwest Indian, or North Indian, due to either too few countries, or not wealthy enough countries. As for the western Pacific, there isn't a good enough of a database for all storms, although it appears unlikely due to this template on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Costliest_Pacific_typhoons. Also, it seems unlikely due to the path the storm would have to take to cause $1 billion in damage in three separate countries.

I just thought I'd point out just how extraordinary Ivan was.

[Cyclenall]

Yet another new stat that has been "founded" for both the tropics and weather in general. It seems like there is an endless amount of categories one can produce for tropical cyclones. That might be another reason why the science is so addicting.

I just thought I'd point out just how extraordinary Ivan was.

I included Ivan in my Top 10 most interesting tropical cyclones list I made in a thread years back on here. This is just another exclusive stat to add to the enormous list for Ivan.

[CrazyC83]

To extend this, I can only think of two storms that did $5 billion or more damage in multiple countries: Ike (Cuba 8B, US 30B) and Wilma (Mexico 8B, US 22B).

A storm like Sandy could easily have run up the list though; doing $1 billion in any single Lesser Antilles country is very difficult from an earlier start (requires a perfect track with total destruction - Ivan in Grenada was astonishing there), but if larger and more intense to start with, Jamaica and perhaps the Bahamas could have had $1B in damage (last storm to do $1B in damage in the Bahamas was Frances? I think Irene came up just short there) in addition to Cuba, and if it charged in fast enough, Canada could have hit that as well (I don't think any storm has ever done $1 billion in damage in Canada in current-year dollars) - five countries there.