Floridacategorizes areas into different evacuation zones, with Zone A typically being the most vulnerable to flooding during a storm to Zone F typically being the last to evacuate. Florida residents are urged to check if they live in an evacuation zone by using a map on the Florida Division o...
You can find a list of Florida evacuation zones on theFlorida Disasterwebsite. Original story: Subscribe to theCompassnewsletter. Hurricane Milton has rapidly escalated to a Category 3 storm and continues to gain strength just two days before its anticipated landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Curr...
Our study focuses on vulnerable populations including people in low lying areas, flood evacuation zones, low income communities, sparsely populated areas, and in manufactured or mobile homes. We analyze the evacuation decision and distance of over 170,000 individuals using passively collected location-...
Officials in Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa Bay, said they would open nine shelters throughout the county for residents in mandatory evacuation zones as well as people whose homes are vulnerable to storm surge, flooding and wind damage....
Hernando County Emergency Management officials rescinded the mandatory evacuation orders issued on Sept. 29, for evacuation zones A, B, and C, coastal areas and low-lying areas, as well as manufactured homes county-wide. Authorities urged residents to take caution when returning to their homes. ...
When it appeared Irma would head that way, they left for Asheville, North Carolina, eventually ending up in St. Augustine, Florida, on the state’s northeastern coast. Molina said the nomadic uncertainty gave her an inkling of what it must be like to flee war zones and ...
Monroe County's emergency plan calls for a"Phased Evacuation."This evacuation plan is intended to avoid unnecessary evacuation if some zones are expected to be affected and others are not. Locate the zone you live in so that you will know when to leave if an evacuation for your zone becomes...
Milton was downgraded early Tuesday to a Category 4 hurricane but remained on a path toward Florida, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay, leading to evacuation orders and lending more urgency to the cleanup from Hurricane Helene, which swamped the same stretch of coastline less than...
Despite the increase in frequency and intensity of wildfires around the world, little research has examined households’ expectations of evacuation lo
analysis of state of Florida data showed that thousands of older adults—residents of 81 of 674 nursing homes and 562 of 3,112 assisted living communities—weremoved to other locations for Hurricane Irma.Many of the facilities that relocated for the storm were not even in evacuation zones. ...