Will hurricane Earl rate in Top 10 most expensive hurricanes?

6. Ivan (2004) – $16.4 billion

Joe Cavaretta / AP / File
A fallen billboard lies in the street in Mobile, Ala., Sept. 16, 2004.

Hurricane Ivan is the only Top 10 hurricane – and one of the few storms in history – to make landfall not once but three times. It first hit between Pensacola and Mobile as a Category 3 storm, pushed through Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, then blew back out into the Atlantic, where it curled back around to the south, swept across the southern tip of Florida as a tropical depression, crossed the Gulf of Mexico, and made landfall the third time at the border of Louisiana and Texas. In its travels, it was responsible for 92 fatalities.

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