- 1833 total fatalities
- Insurance companies have paid an estimated $41.1 billion on 1.7 million different claims for damage to vehicles, homes and businesses in six states
- Hurricane Katrina is the costliest disaster in the history of the global insurance industry
- Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm with 127 mile per hour winds between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the mouth of the Mississippi River at about 6 a.m.
- Winds ranged from 100 to 140 miles per hour