Tens of thousands of Florida residents without power as Hurricane Milton slams into the Sunshine State. Many Florida energy companies warned customers in advance to prepare for outages caused by the storm.

Several schools, colleges and universities have announced they'll be closed in anticipation of Hurricane Milton. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says there’s still much uncertainty about Hurricane Milton, but the state is preparing to open highway shoulders for mass evacuations to come.

With Milton gaining strength and expected to make landfall later this week as a major hurricane, take a look back at several notable hurricanes that previously made landfall in Florida. The interactive graphic below contains a map showing the approximate landfall location of nine hurricanes and the significant figures around each.

Milton will be a surge event unlike any hurricane in living memory for west-central Florida, with only major hurricane strikes in 1848 and 1921 comparable in scope and height of the coastal flooding, WeatherTiger meteorologist Ryan Truchelut said on his blog Tuesday afternoon.

Milton rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday, with sustained winds reaching a brutal 90mph, the National Hurricane Center announced. The hurricane comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida ’s Big Bend,