Category 5 hurricanes are rare in the U.S. There have only been 4 in its history
Such massive storms are fairly rare, and it's even more rare for them to make landfall. NOAA says that for such storms, "catastrophic damage will occur" with electricity outages "for weeks or months."
Updated September 28, 2022 at 3:37 PM ET
Ian has come ashore on Florida's Gulf Coast with winds of 155 miles per hour, placing it just shy of a Category 5 storm — a ranking shared by only four hurricanes of that strength known to have made landfall in the continental U.S.
Those Category 5 storms, with maximum sustained winds of 157 miles per hour or more as measured, all hit the U.S. on the Gulf Coast — three in Florida and one in Mississippi.
