All Hurricanes Are Dangerous
Just because a hurricane is rated as a Category 6, it doesn’t mean any other category is less dangerous. All hurricanes are dangerous. CNN reported, “From 1980 to 2021, five tropical cyclones — out of 197 — around the world have exceeded the threshold of a hypothetical Category 6 designation.”
Many factors go into deciding how dangerous a hurricane is. According to Michael Brennan at the National Hurricane Center, “At NHC, we’ve tried to steer the focus toward the individual hazards, which include storm surge, wind, rainfall, tornadoes, and rip currents, instead of the particular category of the storm, which only provides information about the hazard from the wind.” While the wind itself isn’t necessarily dangerous by itself, it’s what it can knock into, sweep away, or create in the ocean that’s more dangerous (People).