Hurricane Hanna’s losses pegged at nearly $350 million
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Insured losses from Hurricane Hanna will be close to $350 million, Boston-based catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Co. said in a statement Tuesday.
The estimate includes privately insured wind and storm surge damage to residential, commercial and industrial properties, and automobiles, but does not include National Flood Insurance Program losses, KCC said.
Hanna made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane with 90 mile per hour maximum sustained winds on Padre Island, Texas, on July 25, resulting in low levels of wind damage across southern Texas and low to moderate storm surge in coastal areas, KCC said.
High wind speeds left more than 200,000 customers without power in South Texas, while low to moderate levels of wind damage were sustained throughout the Rio Grande Valley, according to KCC’s statement.
Damage to signage and lightweight structures, such as gas station pavilions and marinas was relatively common, KCC said. Other types of damage included roof and siding damage with rare instances of more severe structural damage.
Corpus Christi, Port Mansfield and other coastal towns all experienced storm surge flooding to residential and commercial buildings.
After landfall, the storm traveled southwest and weakened rapidly due to interaction with mountainous terrain and by July 26 had weakened into a tropical storm as it passed into Mexico, KCC said.
Hanna was the first hurricane and the fourth U.S. landfalling storm of the 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season.
Estimates were made using KCC’s high-resolution U.S. hurricane reference model.
