Assessment of the Effects and Impacts caused by Hurricane Irma, The Bahamas 2017

Hurricane Irma was the largest hurricane observed in the Atlantic open ocean, maintaining a Category 5 for three days, and made landfall over Turks and Caicos, and later Barbuda, before reaching the southern islands of The Bahamas. It is estimated that 3515 people were evacuated with 133 public shelter used from September 6 to September 10. Hurricane Irma caused moderate damage throughout the country. Most of the damage sustained resulted from excess rainfall, storm surge and flooding. It is estimated that the total damage was $32.2 million of which 40.5 per cent was public and 59.5 was private.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors:	Omar Bello
Language:	English
Published:	Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:	Emergency Management, Tourism, Fishery, Telecommunication, Hurricane, Natural Disaster, Coastal Hazard, Airport, Port and Waterway, Q54 - Climate • Natural Disasters and Their Management • Global Warming, N16 - Latin America • Caribbean O1 - Economic Development F0 - International Economics: General, natural disasters;Hurricane,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002617 https://publications.iadb.org/en/assessment-of-the-effects-and-impacts-caused-by-hurricane-irma-the-bahamas-2017
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