Hurricane Matthew in October 2016 kicked off a devastating and deadly stretch of U.S. hurricanes that killed more than 3,000 people and resulted in more than $300 billion in damage.

Additional devastating strikes from Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence and Michael – all of which were billion-dollar weather disasters – followed Matthew in 2017 and 2018.

Here's a look back at these six destructive hurricanes and their most notable impacts in the U.S.

Hurricane Matthew, October 2016: $10.8 billion in Damage, 49 U.S. Deaths

The southeastern U.S. was hit hard by Hurricane Matthew in early-October 2016 as it moved very close to the coasts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

Matthew made one official U.S. landfall on Oct. 8, 2016, southeast of McClellanville, South Carolina, as a Category 1 hurricane with 75-mph winds.

Storm surge inundated coastal portions of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. The storm also dropped rainfall totalling a foot or more that caused flooding from Savannah, Georgia, to Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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Matthew was responsible for $10.8 billion in damage and 49 deaths in the U.S.

Hurricane Harvey, August 2017: $130 Billion in Damage, 89 U.S. Deaths

Harvey arrived on the central Texas coast in late-August 2017 as a Category 4 hurricane. Little did we know, there would be two more Category 4 storms to follow.

Harvey pounded the Texas coast upon landfall with extreme winds and storm surge, then went on to drop more than 5 feet of rainfall in parts of southeastern Texas as the storm lost its steering wheel and stalled over the region for days.

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Harvey was responsible for $130 billion in damage and 89 deaths in the U.S.

Hurricane Irma, September 2017: $52 Billion in Damage, 97 U.S. Deaths

Many meteorologists will say "beware the 'I' storms" since they often come when conditions are most ripe for rapid development in the tropics. In early-September 2017, Irma struck more than a dozen islands, devastating areas like Barbuda, St. Martin and parts of the lower Florida Keys along the way.

Extreme ocean conditions – including storm surge, large waves and powerful rip currents – killed multiple people in the Florida Keys as Irma blasted through Cudjoe Key. Storm-surge flooding and wind gusts over 100 mph battered the Keys and southwestern Florida.

Irma went on to knock down trees and drench real-estate as far north as South Carolina and northern Georgia.

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Irma was responsible for $52 billion in damage and 97 deaths in the U.S.

Hurricane Maria, September 2017: $93.6 Billion in Damage, 2,981 U.S. Deaths

Maria raked Puerto Rico just weeks after Harvey and Irma struck the continental U.S.

Infrastructure and the environment were both destroyed on the island in a manner that likely set some communities back by a decade.

Hurricane Maria knocked out entire power grids near its landfall point and well inland.

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Maria was responsible for $93.6 billion in damage and 2,981 deaths in the U.S. It was the deadliest hurricane to strike the U.S. or its territories since the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which claimed at least 8,000 lives.

Hurricane Florence, September 2018: $24.2 Billion in Damage, 53 U.S. Deaths

Another slow-moving flood disaster, Florence crawled its way across the Carolinas and into the Appalachians in mid-September 2018, swelling nearly every river in the Carolinas and clinching tropical cyclone rainfall records in both North and South Carolina.

More than 30 inches of rain fell in some parts of North Carolina following the complete inundation of New Bern, North Carolina, by storm surge. Wilmington, North Carolina, was effectively cut off from the rest of the state by extreme rainfall and elevated rivers.

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Florence was responsible for $24.2 billion in damage and 53 deaths in the U.S.

Hurricane Michael, October 2018: $25.2 Billion in Damage, 49 U.S. Deaths

Hurricane Michael added to the disastrous stretch in October 2018 when it made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane along the Florida Panhandle, ripping coastlines apart as it roared across the Panhandle and into southern Georgia.

It was only the fourth Category 5 U.S. hurricane landfall on record, and the first since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Hurricane Camille in 1969 along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the Florida Keys Labor Day Hurricane in 1935 were the only other U.S. Category 5 landfalls on record.

Michael was the third-most-intense hurricane landfall in the U.S., topping extreme hurricanes such as Andrew and Katrina.

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Michael was responsible for $25.2 billion in damage and 49 deaths in the U.S.