NHC’s Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Reports for the 2024 hurricane season have been posted, the final Atlantic tropical cyclone track map and summary table:
- Fatalities caused by lightning strikes
- 2025 Hurricane Season Predictions
Deaths Caused By Hurricane Beryl in The United States
Beryl directly caused 14 deaths in the United States, with 11 of these occurring in Texas,
one in Louisiana, and two in Vermont. In Texas, five of the deaths were due to falling trees blown
down by high winds, four were due to drownings in freshwater flooding, one was due to a house
fire triggered by storm-related lightning, and one was due to a marine boating incident. The death
in Louisiana was due to a falling tree caused by a tornado, and the two deaths in Vermont were
due to vehicles swept away by freshwater flooding.
All 34 of the reported deaths indirectly related to the storm occurred in Texas. Fourteen
of them were due to heat-induced hyperthermia caused by widespread electrical outages. One
death was due to a fall in a home after an electrical outage, and one was due to an electrical
outage causing a breathing machine to fail. Six deaths were related to post-storm tree-trimming
or clearing, while two others were due to carbon monoxide poisoning. The causes of the other
indirect deaths were not available as of this writing.
The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information estimates the damage to
property in the U.S. to be $7.2 billion. While details about how this damage was distributed are
not available, the Texas Department of Emergency Management reported that Beryl destroyed
239 buildings in Texas and damaged 2,555 other buildings. Much of this damage likely occurred
due to winds and storm surge in the landfall area of Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston,
Harris, and Matagorda Counties (Fig. 12). Damage was also reported from winds and storm
surge elsewhere from the middle Texas coast to the southwestern Louisiana coast and inland
over eastern Texas near the storm track. In addition to the damage, media reports indicate that
Hurricane Beryl 13 almost 3 million people lost power due to the cyclone, with 2.7 million of those in southeastern Texas.
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