For how it just juts out into the ocean, FL had amazingly few strong hurricane hits until a recent cluster.
From 1967-2003, there were only 2 hurricanes Cat 3 or stronger to really hit FL (others landed at land west of Key West or the edge of Pensacola).
There were 5 in 2004-5 alone, and 4 more since 2017, so there's your correction.
But growing up there, for all the hours of the weather channel and trips to Home Depot, surprisingly little made landfall and caused much damage until Andrew in 1992. We're lucky that didn't hit a more populated area, as it was basically a hurricane roleplaying as a kaiju tornado.
I've been in the eye of a hurricane, and it's trippy. Blue sky above you for 20-30 min. Dark, death skies all around, but eerily nice weather there in the hole in the middle.
