Category 5 hurricane that made the second-strongest U.S. landfall on record; impacted similar areas to Katrina. Hurricane Andrew (1992) - Category 5 hurricane that took a similar track and devastated similar areas. Hurricane Rita (2005) – Category 5 hurricane which struck the Gulf Coast of the United States at Category 3 intensity just a month after Katrina impacted Louisiana. Hurricane Harvey (2017) – Category 4 hurricane which made landfall in Texas and is the wettest cyclone in U.S. history; tied with Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record. Hurricane Laura (2020) – Category 4 hurricane which struck near Cameron, Louisiana at peak intensity just one day prior to Katrina's 15th anniversary. Hurricane Ida (2021) – Category 4 hurricane which made landfall in Louisiana at peak intensity on the same day of Katrina's 16th anniversary. Notes References Further reading Horowitz, Andy. Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 (Harvard University Press, 2020), long-term scholarly perspective. Camden Burd, "How To Plan A Disaster: Politics, Nature, and Hurricane Katrina" Reviews in American History (2021) 49#2 pp. 303–309 doi:10.1353/rah.2021.0030 online review Robinson, Sue. "A chronicle of chaos: Tracking the news story of Hurricane Katrina from The Times-Picayune to its website". Journalism 10.4 (2009): 431-450 online. Rosenthal, Sandy. Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina (Mango, 2020), non-fiction account of author's battle to expose Army Corps of Engineers. Usher, Nikki. "Recovery from disaster: How journalists at the New Orleans Times-Picayune understand the role of a post-Katrina newspaper". Journalism Practice 3.2 (2009): 216-232. External links National Hurricane Center's archive on Hurricane Katrina Hydrometeorological Prediction Center's archive on Hurricane Katrina NASA's Hurricane Katrina Archive Geology and Hurricane-Protection Strategies in the Greater New Orleans Area Louisiana Geological Survey publication on Hurricane Katrina Through Hell and High Water: Katrina's First Responders Oral History Project at The Historic New Orleans Collection Disaster recovery: Katrina's Angels Resource Coordination Houston's Noble Experiment – An article in the City Journal The KatrinaRitaVille Express Tour from Dollars & Sense magazine Beyond Katrina: The Voice of Recovery est. 8/28/2005 Katrina: The Debris - 10th anniversary podcast Images: Hurricane Katrina's Aftermath Photos by StreetGangs.com Photographs and Video of Hurricane Katrina's Aftermath Weather satellite imagery (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Photographs of Hurricane Katrina's Aftermath 2005 Atlantic hurricane season Articles containing video clips Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes George W. Bush administration controversies Hurricanes in Florida Hurricanes in Louisiana Floods in Louisiana Retired Atlantic hurricanes August 2005 events