Hurricane season is here and forecasters are predicting an active season.
In preparation for the start of the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season, the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) urges all Floridians to “Know Your Zone”. Knowing your evacuation, storm surge, and flood zone is an important step to ensuring you and your family are prepared for a hurricane.
“Knowing your evacuation zone, and how storm surge or flooding may affect you is an important part of preparing for hurricane season,” said FDEM Director Bryan W. Koon. “When you plan for and mitigate these hazards, you can lessen the impact a storm may have on you and your family.”
Floridians can find their local evacuation, storm surge and flood maps on the public mapping page of floridadisaster.org. Maps are also available via the Division’s geospatial mapping tool, GATOR, at floridadisaster.org/GATOR.
