Thanks. There are definitely different ways of looking at the data.
From : https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/hurrarchive.asp?region=at
I pulled the years with 10 or more hurricanes. On the left is the year, center is number of hurricanes in North Atlantic, the figure on the right is the delta of years. For instance, from 1893 to 1916 - it took 23 years to find another year with 10 hurricanes. Notice how after 1995 they come with increasing frequency.
1893 10
1916 10 23
1933 10 17
1950 11 17
1969 12 19
1995 11 26
1998 10 3
2005 15 7
2010 12 5
2012 10 2