Hurricane Katrina

Today, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) commemorates the 20-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, honoring the lives lost, the families forever changed and the extraordinary resilience of survivors and communities across the Gulf Coast.

Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. The Category 3 hurricane was one of the most-devastating disasters in U.S. history, claiming nearly 1,400 lives and displacing approximately 770,000 people along the Gulf Coast.