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Originally Posted by mikephoen

The number of hurricanes is also going up, the US has just been lucky and not that many have made landfall in the last decade. That has just been pure luck though.

No it hasn't.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E11.html

& Landsea et al. (2010) documented a rather large increase in short-lived tropical storms and hurricanes in the last decade, which is likely due to improved monitoring capabilities, that may be influencing the climatological average number of TCs in the Atlantic basin. With the artificial jump in the 2000s in the frequency of short-lived systems, a more realistic estimate of the long-term climatology may be closer to 13 tropical storms and hurricanes per year.
* 1950 is recorded as the busiest season in the whole database for number of Major Hurricanes with 8.
+ 1886 is recorded as the most active hurricane season for the continental USA with 7 landfalling hurricane