The first severe hurricane that many of the early Pompano settlers experienced was in 1906, just a decade after the community was founded and two years before its incorporation.

That unnamed storm was first observed in the Windward Islands. Its course took it to the western end of Cuba where it turned northeast, hitting Havana and then heading for the Florida Keys. At that time Henry Flagler was constructing the Overseas Railway to Key West and there were hundreds of workers in the Keys, many living in houseboats.

The hurricane hit the Keys on the morning of October 17th, sweeping the houseboats out to sea with the loss of well over a hundred workers. The storm then cut across southeastern Florida, causing damage from Miami to Jupiter.

In Pompano there was significant damage to buildings, foliage and farmland. One pioneer resident later said that it would be years before anyone in town built a two-story structure again.