Is Gulf of Mexico Statistically Out of Hurricane Woods?

The question came up in our morning news meeting today: Could a Hurricane still strike in the western Gulf Of Mexico this late in the season? The NOAA GIS Hurricane Tracker says that there were 60 Hurricanes reported in the Gulf after October 1st, the bulk of which hit Florida or Louisiana.

Looking closer, I picked out five hurricanes that hit Louisiana and Texas after October 15. Of those, remarkably, three made landfall as hurricanes on October 16, but the latest was an Unnamed Hurricane of 1887, which made landfall in Louisiana at 00Z time October 19. Hurricane Juan (1985) was disqualified because it made landfall twice as a Tropical Storm and its closest and first approach as a Hurricane missed landfall, albeit by only a few miles. Ironically, this goes for the Mexico coast as well (west of Coatzacoalcos anyway).

There were also 53 additional Tropical Storms in October, but none (except Hurricane Juan) made landfall in Louisiana or Texas after October 15, as far as I could tell. Juan hit on October 30th. Of the 23 major hurricanes that crossed the Gulf in October or later, the latest was an unnamed storm in 1886 which made landfall in western Louisiana as a Category 3 storm on October 12, 1886.