No.
Never get your science from the press.
What has changed is that — just as with “cold weather” re-imagined as the very scary “polar vortex”, and with a “heavy rainstorm” re-imagined as an equally very scary “atmospheric river”, hurricanes now have a very good promoter in the “modern” media. That’s not to say that there aren’t horrific hurricanes (as are this season’s); it’s that there have always been deadly hurricanes.