Since 1851, there have been 13 such systems.
• 9/13 (69%) passed north or east of the Bahamas and tracked generally north (with some variation slightly to the west of north or east of north) for most of the track.
• 3/13 (24%) passed very near or across Florida as a tropical wave or tropical depression, developed in the southwest Atlantic and then came northward (with some variation slightly to the west of north or east of north) for most of the track.
These storms were: Hurricane #3 (1858): Category 1 at landfall; Hurricane #6 (1888): Tropical Storm at landfall; Hurricane Gerda (1969): Category 1 at landfall.
There was one big exception: Hurricane #2 (1896). This storm crossed Puerto Rico, passed just to the north of Hispaniola and Cuba, through the Bahamas, then eventually made U.S. landfall along the Rhode Island coast as a Category 1 hurricane:
NOTE: The 13 storms exclude those that made earlier U.S. landfall prior to making landfall at Long Island or New England. Such storms include Hurricane #7 (1944), Hurricane Donna (1960), etc.
