 Only two major hurricanes — storms of Category 3 intensity or higher — formed during the season , the least since the 1997 season , although tied with the 2006 and 2002 seasons . Named storms were active for 33 @.@ 50 days during the season , the lowest number of active days since the 1994 season . There were only 11 @.@ 25 days with active hurricanes , the lowest value since the 2002 season . Despite this , the number of days with major hurricanes was above the long @-@ term average . Four named storms made landfall on the U.S. during the year , but damage from those storms totaled to only about $ 82 million ( 2007 USD ) ; this was the least damage the U.S. saw from any Atlantic hurricane season since the 1990 season . The season was one of only six Atlantic hurricane seasons to produce two Category 5 equivalent hurricanes , the others being the 1932 , 1933 , 1960 , 1961 , and 2005 seasons . The two Category 5 hurricanes , Dean and Felix , had both reached Category 5 strength on two separate occasions , the first time two Atlantic hurricanes have done so in a single season . This was also the first season during which two storms made landfall at Category 5 intensity . When Hurricane Felix was upgraded to a Category 5 storm on September 2 , it became the eighth to form in this basin since 2000 . This gave the decade more hurricanes of such strength than any other on record . 
