reconstruction costs with more than 200,000 homes at risk of storm surge damage in texas and the figure doesn't account for storm surges as far north as morgan city, louisiana and that's some 400 miles away from harvey's landfall, however according to fema hurricane katrina is still the most costly hurricane in u.s. history destroying some 300,000 homes and causing $108 billion in damage. now that's roughly four times the amount of damage caused by hurricane andrew in 1992 and coincidentally thursday marked the 25 year anniversary since andrew slammed into south florida. it was the last category 5 storm to hit the u.s. and its impact is still felt today by those who survived it and andrew caused nearly $25 billion in damage destroying more than 25,000 homes and damaging 100,000 others, but texas also has its own history of deadly storms that caused billions of dollars in damage. harvey is the first significant hurricane to hit texas since ike in september 2008. ike was one of the most