"... You didn't answer the question ..."   Huh.  Thought I answered it quite completely and comprehensively.  What part didn't you understand?  

Now, if you were looking for a "gotcha!" moment, as in two major hurricanes in 1900 vs. three (so far) in 2017, I would just point to 1950 - when there were 8 major hurricanes recorded (2017 probably won't come anywhere close).  Then where is the "gotcha!"?

But that of course isn't the point.  Take a look at deaths due to hurricanes in the U.S. over the period 1900 - present:  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/mkx/pdf/handouts/famous-hurricanes.pdf

Basically what you will see is that storms killed many hundreds (or even thousands) per event in the first four decades of the 20th C.  --- but by the 1960s, similar hurricanes were "only" getting a few dozen people.  (Katrina however was a ringer.)  

But overall, deaths from hurricanes have been going *down* for >100 years, even as population (and CO2) have been going *up*.  Isn't that interesting?