Hillsborough County and Tampa have teamed up with Black & Veatch to perform an extensive flood study after the 2024 hurricanes, concentrating on stormwater management and flood protection strategies.

Residents can identify their evacuation zone by visiting disaster.pinellas.gov, downloading the Ready Pinellas app, or calling (727) 464-3800. READ: NOAA’s Warning To Florida: Above-Average Hurricane ...

More than 100 days after Milton made landfall, Tampa City Councilman Luis Viera and Hillsborough County Commissioner Harry Cohen gave an update about what’s being done for the area and other ...

Updated: Feb 1, 2025 / 07:56 AM EST PLANT CITY, Fla. (WFLA) — Hundreds of flooded-out homeowners in Flood Zone “X” face denied insurance claims and financial ruin.

News Nation FEMA sends $1 billion to Florida storm victims, but some are still waiting on the agency Dec. 26, 2024 Updated Thu., Dec. 26, 2024 at 12:48 p.m. Bradenton Beach after Hurricane Milton ...

When Tropical Storm Debby came through Pinellas County, Florida in early August, Danielle Jensen thought her home was protected with flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP ...

Amid flooding in 2014 in northwest Florida, a basement at Escambia County Jail had flooded, causing dryers to float and disconnect from their natural gas lines, causing an explosion that killed ...

The counties with evacuation orders in northeast Florida are St. Johns, Flagler and Volusia counties. Here are the mandatory evacuation order messages for each county: St. Johns - I. Effective at ...

Life-threatening storm surges are expected to hit Florida's Gulf Coast this week with Hurricane Milton, which was upgraded Monday afternoon to a Category 5 storm over the southern Gulf of Mexico.

If your home is in one of the colored areas, those are flood zones where you may be asked to evacuate by local officials. Typically, Zone A is the most vulnerable and the most likely to be asked ...

Storm surge turned the beaches into "a war zone" The Tampa Bay region often gets spared from the worst types of hurricane devastation. That made it challenging for emergency officials to convince some ...