Throughout its history, Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

 has suffered cyclone

Cyclone

In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth. This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth. Most large-scale...

s, hurricanes, tropical storms, torrential rains, floods and earthquakes.

The hurricane season in Haiti lasts from June to the end of November.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of natural disasters which have struck Haiti.

Disasters

1564 :

• Earthquake

1684 :

• Earthquake

1691 :

• Earthquake

1751

• 18 October: Earthquake at Port-au-Prince
  Port-au-Prince
  Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....
  
  . The city was destroyed.
• 3 June: Earthquake at Port-au-Prince and areas to the south. The city and towns were destroyed..

1816

• 18–19 November : a cyclone
  Cyclone
  In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth. This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth. Most large-scale...
  
   caused considerable damage in the countryside of the Haitian Ouest Department
  Ouest Department
  Ouest is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It is the jurisdictional seat of the national capital, the city of Port-au-Prince. It has an area of and a population of 3,093,698 . It borders the Dominican Republic to the east.It is the second largest department in Haiti after the Artibonite...
  
   and in the Gulf of Gonâve
  Gulf of Gonâve
  The Gulf of Gonâve is a large gulf along the western coast of Haiti. Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince, is located on the coast of the gulf. Other cities on the gulf coast include Gonaïves, Saint-Marc, Miragoâne, and Jérémie. Several islands are located in the gulf, the largest being Gonâve...
  
  .

1842

• 7 May: Earthquake at Cap-Haïtien
  Cap-Haïtien
  Cap-Haïtien is a city of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the Department of Nord...
  
   and throughout the north. The town of Cap-Haïtien
  Cap-Haïtien
  Cap-Haïtien is a city of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the Department of Nord...
  
   was destroyed along with the towns of Port-de-Paix
  Port-de-Paix
  Port-de-Paix is a city and the capital of the département of Nord-Ouest in Haïti on the Atlantic coast. It has a population of 250,000 ....
  
  , Gonaïves
  Gonaïves
  Gonaïves is a city in northern Haiti, the capital of the Artibonite Department. It has a population of about 104,825 people . The city's name derives from the original Amerindian name of Gonaibo. It is also known as Haïti's "independence city"...
  
  , and Fort-Liberté
  Fort-Liberté
  Fort-Liberté is the administrative capital of the Nord-Est Department, Haiti. It is close to the border of the Dominican Republic and is one of the oldest cities in the country. Haiti's independence was proclaimed here on November 29, 1803. The area around Fort-Liberté was originally inhabited by...
  
  , and many towns in the Dominican Republic
  Dominican Republic
  The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
  
   were affected.

1887

• 23 September: Earthquake in the western region of Haiti.

1904

• Earthquake in the north of the country. Port-de-Paix
  Port-de-Paix
  Port-de-Paix is a city and the capital of the département of Nord-Ouest in Haïti on the Atlantic coast. It has a population of 250,000 ....
  
   and Cap-Haïtien
  Cap-Haïtien
  Cap-Haïtien is a city of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the Department of Nord...
  
   were severely affected.

1909

1909 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1909 Atlantic hurricane season was an average Atlantic hurricane season, officially starting on June 1, 1909, and ending on November 30, 1909, dates which conventionally delimit the period of each year when tropical cyclones tend to form in the Atlantic basin...

• 12 November: cyclone
  Cyclone
  In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth. This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth. Most large-scale...
  
   in the Ouest département. Around 150 victims were counted in plaine du Cul de Sac alone.

1915

1915 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1915 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and the first half of fall in 1915.-Storms:The 1915 season was not very active in terms of the number of storms but it was fairly eventful, with two powerful hurricanes hitting the Gulf Coast of the United States.-Hurricane One:The first...

• 12 August: cyclone on the southern peninsula, which devastated Jacmel
  Jacmel
  Jacmel, also known by its indigenous Taíno name of Yaquimel, is a town in southern Haiti founded in 1698. It is the capital of the department of Sud-Est and has an estimated population of 40,000, while the municipality of Jacmel had a population of 137,966 at the 2003 Census.The buildings are...
  
   and Jérémie
  Jérémie
  Jérémie is the capital city of the department of Grand'Anse, in Haiti, with a population of about 31,000 . It is almost isolated from the rest of the country...
  
  .

1935

1935 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1935 Atlantic hurricane season ran from June 16 through October 31, 1935. The 1935 season featured below average activity, but it was eventful. A Category 1 hurricane in the Caribbean killed an estimated 2,150 people in the Greater Antilles and Central America. A Category 3 storm hit...

• 21 October: hurricane in Sud
  Sud Department
  Sud is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It has an area of and a population of 745,000 . Its capital is Les Cayes. A large part of the population of Haitians in this department is of mixed race, mulattoes along with other mixtures such as Arabs and East Indians...
  
   and Sud-Est
  Sud-Est Department
  Sud-Est is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It has an area of 2,023 km² and a population of 518,200 . Its capital is Jacmel...
  
   départements. people perished.

1946

1946 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1946 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 16, 1946, and lasted until November 15, 1946. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin....

• Earthquake in the northeast Dominican Republic
  Dominican Republic
  The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
  
   accompanied by a tsunami
  Tsunami
  A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake...
  
   in the region of Nagua
  Nagua
  Nagua is the capital of María Trinidad Sánchez province, in the northeastern Dominican Republic.A medium-sized town, Nagua's economy relies on the production of agricultural products, principally rice, coconuts, and cocoa bean...
  
  . Haiti was also affected.

1952

1952 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1952 Atlantic hurricane season was the most recent season in which all named storms attained hurricane status, although it was the least active since 1946. The season officially started on June 15; however, a pre-season unnamed storm formed on Groundhog Day, becoming the only storm on...

• 27 October: earthquake at Anse-à-Veau
  Anse-à-Veau
  Anse-à-Veau is a municipality in the Anse-à-Veau Arrondissement, in the Nippes Department of Haiti.It has 55,138 inhabitants....
  
   in the Grand'Anse Department
  Grand'Anse Department
  Grand'Anse is one of the ten administrative departments of Haiti. Its capital is Jérémie.-History:...
  
   killed 6 and rendered thousands homeless.

1954

1954 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1954 Atlantic hurricane season caused over $750 million in damage, the most of any season at the time. The season officially began on June 15, and nine days later the first named storm developed. Hurricane Alice developed in the Gulf of Mexico and moved inland along the Rio Grande,...

• 11–12 October: Hurricane Hazel
  Hurricane Hazel
  Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States near the border between North and South Carolina, as a Category 4 hurricane...
  
   affected every part of Haiti. At more than 249 km/h, the hurricane devastated the country, killing several thousand people.

1963

1963 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1963 Atlantic hurricane season was a below average Atlantic hurricane season, with nine named storms. Although the season officially began on June 1, the first storm did not form until nearly a month later. Hurricane Cindy made landfall in Texas before dissipating in the southern portion of the...

• 3 October: Hurricane Flora
  Hurricane Flora
  Hurricane Flora is among the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes in recorded history, with a death total of over 7,000. The seventh tropical storm and sixth hurricane of the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season, Flora developed from a disturbance in the Intertropical Convergence Zone on September 26 while...
  
   struck the Sud and Ouest départements, causing over deaths.
• 14 November: flooding of the Grande Rivière du Nord killed almost 500 people.

1964

1964 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1964 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 15, 1964, and lasted until November 15, 1964. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin...

• 24 August: Hurricane Cleo
  Hurricane Cleo
  Hurricane Cleo was the third named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 1964 Atlantic hurricane season. Cleo was one of the longest-lived storms of the season...
  
   hit the south coast, especially the Cayes-Jacmel
  Cayes-Jacmel
  Cayes-Jacmel is a municipality in the Jacmel Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est Department of Haiti.It has 21,374 inhabitants. Cayes-Jacmel is down the road from Cyvadier and home to a lovely public beach and has a remarkable farmers market...
  
   region, causing 192 deaths.

1966

1966 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1966 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1966, and lasted until November 30, 1966. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. The 1966 season was near normal with eleven tropical storms...

• 29 September: Hurricane Inez
  Hurricane Inez
  Hurricane Inez was a deadly, destructive, powerful and very long-lived Cape Verde-type hurricane that carved an erratic path through the Lesser Antilles, Hispaniola, Cuba, the Bahamas, Florida, and Mexico in 1966...
  
   devastated, at more than 170 km/h, the Sud and Ouest départements

1972

1972 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1972 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1972, and lasted until November 30, 1972. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. A strong El Niño kept hurricane activity at a minimum, and in fact the season...

• 20 May: Floods in the Cayes-Jacmel region. 20 people lost presumed dead, considerable property damage.

1980

1980 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1980 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1980, and lasted until November 30, 1980. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. The season was fairly active, with eleven storms forming, of which nine reached...

• 5 August: Hurricane Allen
  Hurricane Allen
  Hurricane Allen was the first and strongest hurricane of the 1980 Atlantic hurricane season. It was one of the strongest hurricanes in recorded history, one of the few hurricanes to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale on three separate occasions, and spent more time...
  
  , at more than 270 km/h, struck the south coast, especially the Cayes-Jacmel region, causing approximately 200 deaths.

1984

1984 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1984 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1984, and lasted until November 30, 1984. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. The 1984 season was an active one in terms of named storms, but most of them...

• 10 June: floods at Port-de-Paix
  Port-de-Paix
  Port-de-Paix is a city and the capital of the département of Nord-Ouest in Haïti on the Atlantic coast. It has a population of 250,000 ....
  
  .

1986

1986 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1986 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1986, and lasted until November 30, 1986. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin...

• 1 June: Floods in the Cayes-Jacmel region. hectares of land were flooded and several thousand homes damaged.
• 23 October: flooding at Ile de la Gonâve. 31 killed, 906 homeless, more than 380 houses destroyed or damaged.

1987

1987 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1987 Atlantic hurricane season was a below-average hurricane season that was limited by an ongoing El Niño. The season officially began on June 1, 1987, and lasted until November 30, 1987, although activity began on May 25 when a tropical depression developed in the east central...

• 27 April: flooding at Port-de-Paix
  Port-de-Paix
  Port-de-Paix is a city and the capital of the département of Nord-Ouest in Haïti on the Atlantic coast. It has a population of 250,000 ....
  
  .
• 8 May: flooding at Thiotte
  Thiotte
  Thiotte is a municipality in the Belle-Anse Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est Department of Haiti.It has 23,041 inhabitants....
  
   in the Sud-Est département and in the Delmas
  Delmas, Ouest
  Delmas is a commune in Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, Ouest Department of Haiti. Delmas itself is an urban continuation of the capital city. Delmas is also the location of much of the area's commercial and industrial enterprise....
  
   and Caradeux neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince
  Port-au-Prince
  Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....
  
  .

1988

1988 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1988 Atlantic hurricane season was a moderately active season that proved costly and deadly, with 15 tropical cyclones directly affecting land. The season officially began on June 1, 1988, and lasted until November 30, 1988, although activity began on May 30 when a tropical...

• 27 January: flooding in the Nord-Ouest département.
• 20 June: flooding in L'Estère
  L'Estère
  Petites dedunes is a municipality in the Gonaïves Arrondissement, in the Artibonite Department of Haiti.It has 3,000 inhabitants.This historical city of 3,000 inhabitants is where the famous battle of the revolution took place on February 23, 1803 between the troops of Rochambeau and Dessalines at...
  
   in the Artibonite département
  Artibonite Department
  Artibonite is one of the ten departments of Haiti. With an area of 4,984 km² it is Haiti's largest department. Artibonite has a population of 1,168,800 . The region is the country's main rice-growing area. The main cities are Gonaïves and Saint-Marc...
  
  .
• 11 September: Hurricane Gilbert
  Hurricane Gilbert
  Hurricane Gilbert was an extremely powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season and created widespread destruction in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It is the second most intense hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic basin behind only...
  
   devastated the south coast, particularly the Anse-à-Veau
  Anse-à-Veau
  Anse-à-Veau is a municipality in the Anse-à-Veau Arrondissement, in the Nippes Department of Haiti.It has 55,138 inhabitants....
  
  , Camp-Perrin
  Camp-Perrin
  Camp-Perrin is a municipality in the Les Cayes Arrondissement, in the Sud Department of Haiti.It has 40,650 inhabitants....
  
  , Cavaillon
  Cavaillon
  Cavaillon is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.-Geography:The Calavon, a tributary of the Durance locally called Coulon, flows westward through the middle of the commune....
  
  , Cayes, Île à Vache
  Île à Vache
  Île à Vache is a small island lying off the south-west peninsula of Haiti near the town of Les Cayes. Administratively it is part of the Sud Department. It is about long, wide, with an area of...
  
  , Jacmel
  Jacmel
  Jacmel, also known by its indigenous Taíno name of Yaquimel, is a town in southern Haiti founded in 1698. It is the capital of the department of Sud-Est and has an estimated population of 40,000, while the municipality of Jacmel had a population of 137,966 at the 2003 Census.The buildings are...
  
  , Jérémie
  Jérémie
  Jérémie is the capital city of the department of Grand'Anse, in Haiti, with a population of about 31,000 . It is almost isolated from the rest of the country...
  
  , Kenscoff
  Kenscoff
  Kenscoff is a town in the Ouest Department of Haiti, located in mountainous country some 10 kilometres to the southeast of the capital Port-au-Prince. The altitude is approximately 1500 meters. Because of its altitude, the temperature is on average cooler than the capital and during winter months...
  
   and Port-Salut
  Port-Salut
  Port-Salut is a coastal town in the Sud Department of Haiti and the hometown of Haiti's deposed president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide who was born there in 1953. Port-Salut is a popular destination for local Haitians as well as tourists to a certain degree seeking relaxation and tranquility due to the...
  
   regions.
• 8 October: flooding in the Plaine de Léogâne.

1989

1989 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1989 Atlantic hurricane season was an active season that produced fifteen tropical cyclones, eleven named storms, seven hurricanes, and two major hurricanes. The season was officially designated from June 1, 1989, to November 30, 1989, dates which conventionally...

• 23 February: flooding in Île de la Gonâve. familles affected, houses destroyed and 1640 damaged.

1994

1994 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1994 Atlantic hurricane seasonofficially began June 1, 1994, and officially ended November 30, 1994. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin....

• 12 and 13 November: Hurricane Gordon (1994)
  Hurricane Gordon (1994)
  Hurricane Gordon was a long-lived and erratic late-season hurricane of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season. The twelfth and final tropical cyclone of the season, Gordon formed in the southwestern Caribbean on November 8 after two tropical waves enhanced convection around in area of disturbed...
  
   crossed the Sud-Est département and the southern peninsula, causing flooding and approximately 2,000 deaths and disappearances.

1998

1998 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1998 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1998, and lasted until November 30, 1998. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin; however, the season extended through December 1 as Hurricane Nicole remained...

• 23 September: Hurricane Georges
  Hurricane Georges
  Hurricane Georges was a very destructive, powerful and long-lived Cape Verde-type Category 4 hurricane. Georges was the seventh tropical storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season...
  
   devastated the Sud-Est and Nord-Ouest départements, causing 147 deaths, 34 serious injuries, 40 disappearances, and displaced.

2002

2002 Atlantic hurricane season

The 2002 Atlantic hurricane season was an average Atlantic hurricane season, officially starting on June 1, 2002 and ending on November 30, dates which conventionally limit the period of each year when tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean tend to form...

• 24–27 May: Flooding on the southern peninsula. The town of Camp Perrin and the settlements of L'Asile
  L'Asile
  L'Asile is a municipality in the Anse-à-Veau Arrondissement, in the Nippes Department of Haiti.It has 30,240 inhabitants....
  
   and Anse-à-Veau
  Anse-à-Veau
  Anse-à-Veau is a municipality in the Anse-à-Veau Arrondissement, in the Nippes Department of Haiti.It has 55,138 inhabitants....
  
   were worst affected by the tropical storms. 31 dead, 14 disappeared and more than displaced in the dans le Sud département.

2004

2004 Atlantic hurricane season

The 2004 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 2004, and lasted until November 30, 2004. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin...

• 23–24 May: Torrential rains which pounded the south-east of Haiti during the night caused deaths, disappearances and displaced persons.Mapou Belle-Anse
  Belle-Anse
  Belle-Anse is a municipality in the Belle-Anse Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est Department of Haiti.It has 51,707 inhabitants....
  
   with 432 dead, Bodary with 350 dead and Fonds-Verrettes
  Fonds-Verrettes
  Fonds-Verrettes is a municipality in the Croix-des-Bouquets Arrondissement, in the Ouest Department of Haiti.It has 40,224 inhabitants....
  
   with 237 victims, all located in the Sud-Est département, were the places most badly hit.
  The gravity of this situation led the interim government of Boniface
  Boniface Alexandre
  Boniface Alexandre is a politician in Haïti. He served as acting president of Haïti from 2004 to 2006. The 2004 Haitian coup d'état removed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from the Americas on February 29, 2004...
  
   and Latortue
  Gérard Latortue
  Gérard Latortue was the Prime Minister of Haïti from March 12, 2004 to June 9, 2006. He was an official in the United Nations for many years, and briefly served as foreign minister of Haïti during the short-lived 1988 administration of Leslie Manigat.In February 2004, the country suffered a coup...
  
   to declare Friday 28 May a day of national mourning.
• 10 September: Hurricane Ivan
  Hurricane Ivan
  Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, Cape Verde-type hurricane that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The cyclone was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season...
  
   struck the southern peninsula and west coast, causing serious damage in several areas due to flooding.
• 18-19 September: Hurricane Jeanne
  Hurricane Jeanne
  Hurricane Jeanne was the deadliest hurricane in the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the tenth named storm, the seventh hurricane, and the fifth major hurricane of the season, as well as the third hurricane and fourth named storm of the season to make landfall in Florida...
  
   crossed the western section of Haiti and the Artibonite, causing flooding which killed . In addition: injured, 846 disappeared and displaced. With more than dead, Gonaïves
  Gonaïves
  Gonaïves is a city in northern Haiti, the capital of the Artibonite Department. It has a population of about 104,825 people . The city's name derives from the original Amerindian name of Gonaibo. It is also known as Haïti's "independence city"...
  
   was the most seriously affected city.

2005

2005 Atlantic hurricane season

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, repeatedly shattering numerous records. The impact of the season was widespread and ruinous with an estimated 3,913 deaths and record damage of about $159.2 billion...

• 6 and 7 July: Hurricane Dennis
  Hurricane Dennis
  Hurricane Dennis was an early-forming major hurricane in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico during the very active 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Dennis was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the season...
  
   touched the south-east coast of Haiti, causing flooding in several towns in Sud (Bainet
  Bainet
  Bainet is a municipality in the Bainet Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est Department of Haiti.It has 62,300 inhabitants....
  
  , Grand-Goâve, Les Cayes
  Les Cayes
  Les Cayes , is a town and seaport in southwestern Haiti, with a population of approximately 45,904 people . Estimates from 2008 place the population at close to 70,000 people...
  
  ...) and leaving more than 500 homeless.
• 4 October: Floods in several parts of the country, including Pétion-Ville and Grand-Goâve in the Ouest département, where the high water caused considerable loss of property. The government did not make a final accounting of this catastrophe.
• 17–18 October: Hurricane Wilma
  Hurricane Wilma
  Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Wilma was the twenty-second storm , thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, and fourth Category 5 hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 season...
  
   struck the west and south of Haiti.
• 23 October: Tropical Storm Alpha
  Tropical Storm Alpha (2005)
  Tropical Storm Alpha was the twenty-third named storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The twenty-one names from the predetermined A–W list having been used, Alpha was the first tropical storm ever to be given a name from the Greek alphabet. On October 20, Tropical Depression...
  
   crossed the south peninsula, affecting the départements of Grand'Anse
  Grand'Anse Department
  Grand'Anse is one of the ten administrative departments of Haiti. Its capital is Jérémie.-History:...
  
   and Nippes
  Nippes Department
  Nippes is the newest department of Haiti, having been split from Grand'Anse Department in 2003. The capital of the department is Miragoâne.The department is divided into three arrondissements:* Miragoâne Arrondissement...
  
  .
• 25 October: Flooding caused by torrential rain hit many parts of the Nord-Ouest département, particularly the settlements of Port-de-Paix
  Port-de-Paix
  Port-de-Paix is a city and the capital of the département of Nord-Ouest in Haïti on the Atlantic coast. It has a population of 250,000 ....
  
  , Bassin-Bleu
  Bassin-Bleu
  Bassin-Bleu is a municipality in the Port-de-Paix Arrondissement, in the Nord-Ouest Department of Haiti.It has 33,926 inhabitants....
  
  , Anse-à-Foleur
  Anse-à-Foleur
  Anse-à-Foleur is a municipality in the Saint-Louis-du-Nord Arrondissement, in the Nord-Ouest Department of Haiti.It has 16,560 inhabitants....
  
   and Saint-Louis du Nord.

2006

2006 Atlantic hurricane season

The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season was significantly less active than the record previous season. It marked the first since 2001 in which no hurricanes made landfall in the United States, and was the first since 1994 that no tropical cyclones formed during October. Following the intense activity of...

• 22 and 23 November: heavy rain caused flooding in Grand'Anse Department
  Grand'Anse Department
  Grand'Anse is one of the ten administrative departments of Haiti. Its capital is Jérémie.-History:...
  
   and the Nippes and Nord-Ouest départements, causing damage to roadways including the collapse of a bridge across Ravine Sable at Trou-Bonbon.

2007

2007 Atlantic hurricane season

The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season was an active Atlantic hurricane season that produced 17 tropical cyclones, 15 tropical storms, six hurricanes, and two major hurricanes. It officially started on June 1 and ended on November 30, dates which conventionally delimit the...

• 17 March: floods caused by rain and storms hit a large part of Haiti for over a week. Six départements were particularly affected:
  • Grand'Anse: Jérémie
    Jérémie
    Jérémie is the capital city of the department of Grand'Anse, in Haiti, with a population of about 31,000 . It is almost isolated from the rest of the country...
    
    , Abricots
    Abricots
    Abricots is a municipality in the Jérémie Arrondissement, in the Grand'Anse Department of Haiti.It has 24,555 inhabitants....
    
    , Bonbon, Les Irois
    Les Irois
    Les Irois is a municipality in the Anse-d'Hainault Arrondissement, in the Grand'Anse Department of Haiti.It has 17,340 inhabitants....
    
    
  • Sud-Est : Jacmel
    Jacmel
    Jacmel, also known by its indigenous Taíno name of Yaquimel, is a town in southern Haiti founded in 1698. It is the capital of the department of Sud-Est and has an estimated population of 40,000, while the municipality of Jacmel had a population of 137,966 at the 2003 Census.The buildings are...
    
    
  • Ouest : Cité Soleil
    Cité Soleil
    Cité Soleil is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. Cité Soleil originally developed as a shanty town and grew to an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 residents, the majority of whom live in extreme poverty...
    
    , Delmas
    Delmas, Ouest
    Delmas is a commune in Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, Ouest Department of Haiti. Delmas itself is an urban continuation of the capital city. Delmas is also the location of much of the area's commercial and industrial enterprise....
    
    , Port-au-Prince
    Port-au-Prince
    Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....
    
     (Carrefour-Feuilles
    Carrefour, Haiti
    Carrefour is a largely residential and a commune in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. The commune had a population of 373,916 at the 2003 Census, and was officially estimated to have grown to 465,019 inhabitants in 2009. It is mostly a bedroom community for those who work in central...
    
    , Canapé Vert)
  • Nord-Ouest : Port-de-Paix
    Port-de-Paix
    Port-de-Paix is a city and the capital of the département of Nord-Ouest in Haïti on the Atlantic coast. It has a population of 250,000 ....
    
    , Saint-Louis du Nord, Anse-à-Foleur
    Anse-à-Foleur
    Anse-à-Foleur is a municipality in the Saint-Louis-du-Nord Arrondissement, in the Nord-Ouest Department of Haiti.It has 16,560 inhabitants....
    
    
  • Nord: Cap-Haïtien
    Cap-Haïtien
    Cap-Haïtien is a city of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the Department of Nord...
    
    
  • Nord-Est : Ferrier
    Ferrier, Nord-Est
    Ferrier is a municipality in the Fort-Liberté Arrondissement, in the Nord-Est Department of Haiti.It has 13,096 inhabitants....
    
    , Ouanaminthe
    Ouanaminthe
    Ouanaminthe is a city located in the Nord-Est Department of Haiti. It contains about 100,000 people including immediate areas. The Massacre River is located between Ouanaminthe and Dajabón in the Dominican Republic. The border crossing to Dajabón is one of the four chief land crossings to the...
    
    .
• 8–9 May: torrential rain, causing considerable damage in several regions of the country, in particular in the Nord, Nord-Est and Sud départements. The town of Ouanaminthe
  Ouanaminthe
  Ouanaminthe is a city located in the Nord-Est Department of Haiti. It contains about 100,000 people including immediate areas. The Massacre River is located between Ouanaminthe and Dajabón in the Dominican Republic. The border crossing to Dajabón is one of the four chief land crossings to the...
  
   was particularly hard hit and the bridge between Ouanaminthe and Dajabón
  Dajabón
  Dajabón is a province of the Dominican Republic, on the border with Haiti. Its capital city is also called Dajabón.It was split from Monte Cristi province in 1938, and was called Libertador until 1961.-Location:...
  
   which links Haiti to the Dominican Republic was severely damaged.

2008

2008 Atlantic hurricane season

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was a very active hurricane season with sixteen named storms formed, including eight that became hurricanes and five that became major hurricanes. The season officially started on June 1 and ended on November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of...

• 16 August: Tropical Storm Fay
  Tropical Storm Fay (2008)
  Tropical Storm Fay was a tropical storm and the sixth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Fay formed from a vigorous tropical wave on August 15 over the Dominican Republic...
  
   crossed the entire country.
• 26 August: Hurricane Gustav crosses the south peninsula, including the Sud and Grand'Anse départements, causing approximately 77 deaths and 8 disappearances, together with serious destruction of property. families were affected by the storm, which destroyed houses and damaged .
• 1 September: Huricane Hanna
  Hurricane Hanna (2008)
  Hurricane Hanna was the deadliest storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm was the eighth tropical cyclone and fourth hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands on August 28...
  
   ravaged the Artibonite and Nord-Est départements. Several towns were flooded, including Gonaïves
  Gonaïves
  Gonaïves is a city in northern Haiti, the capital of the Artibonite Department. It has a population of about 104,825 people . The city's name derives from the original Amerindian name of Gonaibo. It is also known as Haïti's "independence city"...
  
  . One death was officially confirmed. In addition to Gonaïves, several towns in Jacmel, Nord-Est, Sud and Sud-Est were flooded..
• 6 September: Ike
  Hurricane Ike
  Hurricane Ike was the second-costliest hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States, the costliest hurricane ever to impact Cuba and the second most active hurricane to reach the Canadian mainland in the Great Lakes Region after Hurricane Hazel in 1954...
  
  , a category 4 hurricane, grazed the western coastline of Haiti, leading to heavy rain in Nord, Ouest and Nord-Ouest départements.

2009

2009 Atlantic hurricane season

The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season was a below-average year, unlike the 2009 Pacific hurricane season, which was above average, both due to a moderate El Niño. During this year, nine tropical storms formed, the fewest since the 1997 season.An average season has ten tropical storms, six hurricanes...

• 20 October: heavy rain in the Haitian capital
  Port-au-Prince
  Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....
  
   and its suburbs. Carrefour
  Carrefour, Haiti
  Carrefour is a largely residential and a commune in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. The commune had a population of 373,916 at the 2003 Census, and was officially estimated to have grown to 465,019 inhabitants in 2009. It is mostly a bedroom community for those who work in central...
  
  , in the southern suburbs, was completely flooded.

2010

2010 Atlantic hurricane season

The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season was the third most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, tying with the 1887 Atlantic hurricane season, 1995 Atlantic hurricane season and the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. It had the most number of named storms since the 2005 season and also ties with the...

• 12 January: the magnitude 7.0 2010 Haiti earthquake
  2010 Haiti earthquake
  The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicentre near the town of Léogâne, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks...
  
   which occurred on at 16:53, local time
  UTC-5
  UTC−05:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −05.This offset is used in the Eastern Time Zone during standard time and in the Central Time Zone during Daylight Saving Time ....
  
  . The earthquake killed between 46,000 and 316,000 people. Its epicentre was at approximately 25 km from Port-au-Prince
  Port-au-Prince
  Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....
  
  , the capital. A dozen secondary shocks of magnitudes ranging from 5.0 to 5.9 were registered during the hours which followed.
• 20 January: A second earthquake of magnitude 6.1 occurred on 20 January 2010 at 06:03 local time. Its epicentre was at approximately 59 km west of Port-au-Prince, and at least 10 km beneath the surface.
• 20 October: A cholera epidemic hit outside of Port-au-Prince, killing at least 3,597 and sickening over 340,000.
• 5 November: Hurricane Tomas
  Hurricane Tomas
  Hurricane Tomas was the nineteenth named storm and twelfth hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. Tomas developed from a tropical wave east of the Windward Islands on October 29. Quickly intensifying into a hurricane, it moved through the Windward Islands and passed very near Saint...
  
  hits and kills at least 10 Hatiens causing damage and worsening the cholera epidemic.