Will hurricane Earl rate in Top 10 most expensive hurricanes?

9. Agnes (1972) – $10.9 billion

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A Shore Acres family evacuates during flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes in June 1972 in St. Petersburg. The storm swept up the coast of Florida.

The only June storm to make the Top 10, hurricane Agnes made landfall as a Category 1 storm on the Florida Panhandle, marched across the south to Atlanta and the sea, pushed up the coast and made landfall a second time near New York City (by then only a tropical storm), and faded out over Pennsylvania and New York State. Agnes left a swath of property destruction and was linked to 129 fatalities, according to Weather Underground's Hurricane Archive.

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