Has anywhere in recent years seen as many storms as Bermuda?

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Bermuda is 20 miles long. In the last six years this 20 miles of coastline has seen four hurricane landfalls: Fay '14, Gonzalo '14, Humberto '19, Paulette '20.

This is more landfalls than the entire 1350 miles of Florida coastline over the same period (Hermine '16, Irma '17, Michael '18)!

And Teddy is lining up to be number 5. This is just insane.

[psyclone]

There's definitely a randomness to hurricane distribution. You guys in Bermuda are rolling snake eyes lately. IIRC during the 1996 hurricane season there was a spot in the ocean that was run over 4 times in that season. Of course we all remember the mid florida triple point from the 2004 season. it definitely happens. on the flip side...my area has a good luck streak a century in the making. OK I'm exaggerating...99 years since the last major...

[chaser1]

I was thinking the North Carolina Outer Banks would have been a strong contender for number of landfalls, but not to the extent that Bermuda has been targeted recently.

[Kazmit]

This website shows the cities with the top frequency of hurricane hits since 1871, and Bermuda is number 7 with one hurricane every 4 years. But in the last 6 years, Bermuda has exceeded this.

http://www.hurricanecity.com/rank.htm

[Blinhart]

This website shows the cities with the top frequency of hurricane hits since 1871, and Bermuda is number 7 with one hurricane every 4 years. But in the last 6 years, Bermuda has exceeded this.

http://www.hurricanecity.com/rank.htm

Don't know how accurate that is? Seems a little off to me.

[somethingfunny]

You forgot Nicole! And yes... Bermuda has been a bulls eye lately. It's such a small speck of land in the middle of the Atlantic firing range. But, think about how many years it had been prior to 2014, and prior to 2003.

[Kazmit]

This website shows the cities with the top frequency of hurricane hits since 1871, and Bermuda is number 7 with one hurricane every 4 years. But in the last 6 years, Bermuda has exceeded this.

http://www.hurricanecity.com/rank.htm

Don't know how accurate that is? Seems a little off to me.

It's since 1871, so I can see why it seems that way. If it was the last 10 years Bermuda would certainly be above the Cayman Islands, for example.

[BigB0882]

It is just weird how it works. I grew up in Beaumont, TX and the only hurricane to ever hit while I lived there was Bonnie when I was a little baby. I moved when I was 19 to Louisiana. So 19 years and one hurricane. I don't recall any Tropical Storms or Depressions but I could be wrong.

Since I've moved the Beaumont area has seen Ike, Rita, Harvey, Humberto and Laura. That's just off the top of my head, no telling what I may be forgetting. That all started in 2005, so in 15 years 5 big storms, including majors, but in the previous 18 years or so...nothing.

[Shell Mound]

Bermuda is 20 miles long. In the last six years this 20 miles of coastline has seen four hurricane landfalls: Fay '14, Gonzalo '14, Humberto '19, Paulette '20.

This is more landfalls than the entire 1350 miles of Florida coastline over the same period (Hermine '16, Irma '17, Michael '18)!

And Teddy is lining up to be number 5. This is just insane.

Maybe the submarine magnetite deposits within the Bermudan Triangle are dragging the storms toward a wormhole beneath Hamilton.

[Chris90]

Here's an article from wikipedia that I read a few months ago that may be of interest to some of you. A list of Bermuda hurricanes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... hurricanes

This is just my opinion, but I would say Bermuda is one of the MOST hurricane prone places in the ATL. Consider what a small size it is out in the vast Atlantic and how often they get direct strikes from an eyewall. It's hard for a storm to make an official landfall there since it requires the center moving directly over the island, but they receive direct strikes from eyewalls pretty frequently, especially when you compare it to other places.

I mean, if you were to directly compare how many times Hamilton, Bermuda has been through an eyewall in the past 50-100 years compared to any other hurricane prone city/town in the ATL basin, Hamilton probably beats out a majority of other places. I'd be interested in seeing statistics from a certified agency if they ever did it.

Also, I did see that hurricanecity article, but it doesn't seem to specify what effects are necessary to qualify. It seems a place just has to get affected by outer bands to qualify to me, and I'm talking specifically about direct hits from a portion of the eyewall when comparing Hamilton to other cities/towns. The placement of Savannah, Georgia so high on that list is suspect to me.

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It is just weird how it works. I grew up in Beaumont, TX and the only hurricane to ever hit while I lived there was Bonnie when I was a little baby. I moved when I was 19 to Louisiana. So 19 years and one hurricane. I don't recall any Tropical Storms or Depressions but I could be wrong.

Since I've moved the Beaumont area has seen Ike, Rita, Harvey, Humberto and Laura. That's just off the top of my head, no telling what I may be forgetting. That all started in 2005, so in 15 years 5 big storms, including majors, but in the previous 18 years or so...nothing.

I don't believe any of those actually passed over Beaumont though. If we are counting "close passes" then Bermuda has well over 20 in that time period.

[al78]

Florida got hit by four hurricanes in 2004 alone (Ivan wasn't technically a landfall but the core impacted Florida). Three of those were majors. There was also tropical storm Bonnie.

Then came Dennis, Katrina and Wilma in 2005, that's seven hurricanes in two consecutive years. I believe that has at least a several hundred year return period.

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Florida got hit by four hurricanes in 2004 alone (Ivan wasn't technically a landfall but the core impacted Florida). Three of those were majors. There was also tropical storm Bonnie.

Then came Dennis, Katrina and Wilma in 2005, that's seven hurricanes in two consecutive years. I believe that has at least a several hundred year return period.

But that is an coastline nearly 100 times larger than Bermuda.

[Astromanía]

In ATL idk, in EPAC Revillagigedo islands are almost every year hit by a tropical cyclone, much more than Bermuda, due to the fact EPAC basin is way smaller than ATL basin and tropical cyclones tend to have similar tracks and affect the same areas, that's why EPAC is the most dense basin in the world, but they are part of Mexico, not a country and few people live there.