2025 Tropical Cyclone Name Retirements (Including but not limited to the Atlantic Basin)

[CrazyC83]

At the moment, Gilbert is the costliest hurricane in Jamaican history at 2.98 billion (1988 USD). Wouldn't take much for Melissa to break that unfortunately

This could be the costliest hurricane on record that did not significantly affect the US. I'm not sure what storm currently has that mark? (Meaning the US did not experience at least tropical storm conditions or major flooding impacts)

I'm basing off Wikipedia so take it with a grain of salt, but:

List of highest monetary damages of Atlantic hurricanes in non-US territories: (Non-normalized USD, excluding Puerto Rico and USVI)

1. Irma 2017: $25.07 billion
2. Ike 2008: $8 billion
3. Matthew 2016: $6.47 billion
4. Wilma 2005: $6.34 billion
5. Mitch 1998: $6.04 billion
6. Eta 2020: $5.59 billion
7. Ike 2008: $5.57 billion
8. Stan 2005: $3.96 billion
9. Karl 2010: $3.9 billion
10. Sandy 2012: $3.68 billion
11. Dorian 2019: $3.48 billion
12. Georges 1998: $3.37 billion
13. Gilbert 1988: $2.98 billion
14. Luis 1995: $2.81 billion (plus any Virgin Islands damage in US territories)
15. Michelle 2001: $2.35 billion
16. Gustav 2008: $2.31 billion
17. Debby 2024: $2 billion
18. Marilyn 1995: $2 billion
19. Beryl 2024: $1.85 billion
20. Joan 1988: $1.85 billion
21. Fifi 1974: $1.8 billion
22. Dean 2007: <$1.66 billion
23. Maria 2017: $1.61 billion
24. Alex 2010: $1.52 billion
25. Hugo 1989: $1.51 billion
26. Roxanne 1995: $1.5 billion
27. Ingrid 2013: $1.5 billion
28. Dennis 2004: $1.48 billion
29. Iota 2020: $1.4 billion
30. Rafael 2024: $1.35 billion
31. David 1979: $1.22 billion
32. Fiona 2022: $1.09 billion

This list simply removes all monetary damage in the US and its territories from overall costs. To meet your stricter criterion that the storm must not have impacted the US at all (not even as a TS like Mitch), the costliest is Stan 2005 at almost $4 billion. Melissa will almost certainly surpass that.

Whether Melissa could replace Irma's $25 billion as incurring the greatest cost outside the US remains a question.

I never even thought about that one! I know for the whole hemisphere, Otis is by far the costliest to not affect the US.

[Teban54]

At the moment, Gilbert is the costliest hurricane in Jamaican history at 2.98 billion (1988 USD). Wouldn't take much for Melissa to break that unfortunately

$2.98 billion is the total damage of Gilbert in all countries along its path. Its damage in Jamaica was a mere $700 million.

In fact, I believe that Wikipedia's mention of Gilbert as the costliest Jamaica hurricane (without inflation adjustments) may already inaccurate even before Melissa. Beryl did $995 million's worth of damage to the country last year. (Edit: I'm not sure where the $995 million on Beryl's Wikipedia page came from.)

[MadaTheConquistador]

Right now, the current damage cost estimates in Jamaica for Melissa are around $7.7 billion (though it could easily be higher than that), making it the costliest Atlantic hurricane to not affect the U.S. (and could even surpass Otis as the costliest storm in its hemisphere to not affect the U.S. as well) and the death toll right now is over 50, though that is likely to keep on going up and could even be triple digit sadly, and at this point, Melissa's a slam dunk for retirement. She could even surpass Hugo as the costliest storm on List 5 too.

Once she's retired, she'll be the:
100th name to be retired in the Atlantic basin.
8th "M" named storm be retired, and 5th one since 2016 to be retired as well. (I guess the "M curse" is real!)
Second third gen name after Ian (and first female third gen name) to be retired (and all 3 of these have been mentioned in earlier comments too)