By National Weather Service – National Weather Service Enhanced Radar Mosaic Accessed at 05:10 Eastern Daylight Time (09:10 UTC), 7 October 2016., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52109230

Floridians are beginning to prepare in earnest for Hurricane Irma which could make landfall in the state. Currently a Category 5 storm and one of the most powerful in the history of recorded tropical weather in the Atlantic basin, Irma is barreling toward the Sunshine State with likely impacts in Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Cuba along the way. Here is a table drawn from various sources as to the most powerful landfalling Florida Hurricanes of the past. This chart gives the liberty of referring to Matthew as a land-falling Florida Hurricane though the one area it hit directly in Florida was not populated by humans (the extreme outer eastern edge of Cape Canaveral).

Full chart below