List of cyclones in Western Australia

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Cyclone Ingrid on 8 March 2005

This is a list of cyclones gazetted as disasters in Western Australia:

Name	Start date	Region	Dead	Injured	Affected	Homeless	Estimated total cost	Remarks
	24 December 1875	Exmouth Gulf	69				$0M	Cyclone hovered in Exmouth Gulf for nearly two weeks; 69 lives lost, mostly on ships at sea in the area.
	1 April 1884	Lagrange	140				$0M	Forty vessels of a pearling fleet sunk with 140 lives lost.
	1 January 1894	Port Hedland	45				$0M	45 people killed at sea; another 21 lives lost in subsequent flooding at Geraldton
	1 March 1898	Port Hedland					$0M	£30,000 damage to Cossack, shipping damaged.
	12 January 1908	Broome	50				$0M	Most deaths at sea.
	1 April 1909	Dampier	24				$0M	24 people killed at Onslow
	11 January 1910	Broome	37				$0M	37 lives lost in the Broome region.
	1 March 1912	Port Hedland	149				$0M	SS Koombana sunk.
	28 March 1934	Dampier					$0M	75% of homes in Onslow destroyed.
	3 January 1935	Broome	141				$0M
	24 January 1961	Bunbury					$0M	a tropical cyclone in the north created hot, windy conditions in the south, igniting the Dwellingup fires of 1961.
	1 February 1965	Carnarvon					$0M	Carnarvon's banana crop destroyed; Liberian oil tanker Bridgewater broke in two but was rescued by the Italian tanker Elios
Cyclone Beverley	1 March 1975	Dampier					$7.5M
	1 July 1975	WA					$7M
Cyclone Joan	8 December 1975	Port Hedland		5	1000	20	$74M	Extensive damage to Port Hedland; Port Hedland Hospital destroyed.
Cyclone Alby	27 March 1978	Perth	3	10	4000	20	$39M	Caused the most widespread cyclone damage in Western Australia's history. Destroyed a large portion of the Busselton Jetty.
Cyclone Hazel	1 March 1979	Carnarvon	15	5	2000	10	$41M	Taiwanese fishing vessel sunk of Carnarvon with loss of 15 lives.
	1 January 1980	Multiple Regions		5			$12M
Cyclone Dean	1 February 1980	Kalgoorlie		7	1000	10	$11M	Damage to mining infrastructure
Cyclone Errol	1 January 1982	North-Western					$0M	Flooding
	1 February 1982	WA					$3.6M
	1 April 1983	WA					$3M
	1 February 1984						$0M
	1 January 1986	Wyndham					$2.5M
Cyclone Connie	1 January 1987	Port Hedland					$2.5M
	19 May 1988	Carnarvon			2000		$30M	Heavy damage to towns from Carnarvon to Denham; bulk ore-carrier Korean Star sunk.
Cyclone Ilona	15 December 1988	Port Hedland					$2.4M
Cyclone Orson	23 April 1989	Multiple Regions	2	20	1000	60	$2.4M	Damaged offshore oil and gas rigs; one n fisherman drowned; damage to Dampier, Karratha and Panawonica.
Cyclone Fifi	15 April 1991	Multiple Regions	29	10	2000		$0M	Mineral Diamond sunk with loss of 27 lives; extensive damage to properties in Perth.
Cyclone Bobby	23 February 1995	Dampier	7	15	7000	30	$11M	Extensive damage to Onslow; two fishing trawlers sunk with 7 lives lost; widespread flooding and infrastructure damage.
Cyclone Frank	8 December 1995	Exmouth Gulf		2	500	20	$0M
Cyclone Gertie	18 December 1995	Port Hedland			200		$0M	Minor damage only
Cyclone Kirsty	12 March 1996	Port Hedland			400	50	$0M
Cyclone Lindsay	1 July 1996	Carnarvon					$0M	Flooding
Cyclone Olivia	8 April 1996	Dampier		10	1500	250	$2M
	26 January 1998	Port Hedland		7			$0M	Seven people were rescued from the Indian Ocean after their boat sank.
	3 January 1999	Perth					$0M	Moora and Geraldton flooded.
Cyclone John	10 December 1999	Port Hedland		1	1000	40	$0M	Australia's strongest cyclone to that date.
Cyclone Sam	8 December 2000	Multiple Regions					$0M	Bidyadanga evacuated.
Cyclone Chris	7 February 2002	Port Hedland					$0M	Warralong Aboriginal Community badly damaged, Nullagine flooded.
Cyclone Monty	3 February 2004	Pilbara					$0M	The Ashburton river, Robe river, Fortescue River Maitland river and Harding River were all in flood. Water level peak at 3.9 meters above the Harding River dam. ^[1]
Cyclone Ingrid	10 March 2005	NT, QLD and WA					$0M	Widespread damage in Queensland and the Northern Territory; in Western Australia, houses in Kalumburu were damaged.
Cyclone George	8 March 2007	Port Hedland	3	28			$0M	Extensive damage in Port Hedland, killed three people in small mining camps south of the town. Worst cyclone since Joan in 1975.^[2]