Why Roatan has to worry about hurricanes a lot less than Florida

I found this graphic online that gives the hurricane danger of various countries on a scale of 0 to 10. You will notice that the countries with the highest risk are to our northeast. That is because the strongest hurricanes tend to form off the west coast of Africa and move in a west/northwesterly direction. That means the majority of hurricanes are north of us by the time they get into the Caribbean. I put a brown arrow between us and Cuba to show the general direction of the hurricanes that come closest to us. Most of them thread the needle and head toward the Yucatan of Mexico and perhaps into the Gulf of Mexico to give them headaches. You will notice that Nicaragua is a low risk country for hurricanes, but in 2020, the two recent hurricanes that had the greatest impact on Honduras, struck the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua before moving inland and flooding out the mainland. We got very limited impacts on Roatan, because the mainland took the brunt of the storm. We keep an eye on hurricanes, especially between late August and early November, but we have to worry about hurricanes a lot less than Florida, which is in the bull’s eye for strong hurricanes moving across the Atlantic.