Pre-1600 Atlantic hurricane seasons
The years from 1492 to 1524 featured the 1492-1524 Atlantic hurricane seasons. While data for every storm that occurred is unavailable, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to give data of hurricane occurrences. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. They officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30. All data for years before 1492 is completely unavailable because record-keeping was virtually non-existant in the Pre-Columbian era, and any records that may have once existed have long ago been lost.
While there isn't official detailed information, scientists discovered through sediment layers that a series of very strong hurricanes hit western Florida thousands of years ago. Hurricanes have been occurring for thousands of years, and will likely continue for many years to come.
Storms
| Year | Location | Date | Deaths | Damage/other information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1495 | West Indies | N/A | N/A | 3 ships sunk, earliest report of a hurricane, came from Christopher Columbus; "Nothing but the service of God and the extension of monarchy would expose me to such danger" |
| 1500 | Bahamas | July | N/A | 2 ships destroyed |
| 1502 | Offshore Dominican Republic | 11 July | 500 | N/A |
| 1502 | Honduras | 16 September | N/A | 1 ship sunk, all drowned aboard |
| 1504 | North Coast of Colombia | N/A | 175 | N/A |
| 1508 | Dominican Republic | 12 August | N/A | Destroyed entire population of Buenaaventura |
| 1509 | Santo Domingo | 29 July | N/A | Moderate damage |
| 1515 | Puerto Rico | July | Death of many Indians | N/A |
| 1519 | Jamaica | N/A | N/A | Ship sunk, 18 survived |
| 1523 | Florida west coast | N/A | N/A | 2 ships and their crews lost |
| 1524 | Cuba | October | 73 | N/A |