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Looking at historical records, not. Hurricane Katrina was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history in terms of property damage, with damage totaling $105 billion, but it was by no means the deadliest. The death toll of Hurricane Katrina was 1,836. Compare that with the deadliest U.S. hurricane, the Great Galveston hurricane of 1900, which killed at least 6,000. The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record killed more than 20,000 people in 1780. The deadliest tropical cyclone (the generic term for storms such as hurricanes) on record was the Bhola Cyclone of 1970, which killed over 300,000 people in what is now Bangladesh.

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