8. Mitch
Wind: 180 mph
Year: 1998
Damage: $5 billion
Hurricane Mitch was the 13th named storm of the 1998 Atlantic Hurricane Season, and it was unlucky indeed for the population of Nicaragua and Honduras. The final number of victims is still not known, but at least 11,000 people were killed, and 9,191 were missing. Over 20% of Honduras’s population was homeless after the catastrophic hit the hurricane had made. Also, 70% of total crops in Honduras were lost, including 80% of banana crops.