Florida

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$649.5B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

85.99

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 67 counties

Hurricane

93.31 Avg Risk Score

Wildfire

87.96 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

84.81 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

71.25 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

70.07 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

69.07 Avg Risk Score

Drought

60.84 Avg Risk Score

Coastal Flooding

53.99 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

tropical-cyclone 29 events

$563.0B

severe-storm 27 events

$46.2B

drought 6 events

$21.8B

freeze 5 events

$6.8B

winter-storm 3 events

$6.9B

flooding 2 events

$2.2B

wildfire 2 events

$2.7B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Miami-Dade	99.81	Very High	88.1%
2	Broward	99.75	Very High	78.1%
3	Palm Beach	99.71	Very High	80.1%
4	Hillsborough	99.55	Very High	77.9%
5	Lee	99.49	Relatively High	70.9%
6	Brevard	99.36	Relatively High	48.2%
7	Pinellas	99.2	Relatively High	71.0%
8	Pasco	99.05	Relatively High	70.4%
9	Collier	98.85	Relatively High	61.4%
10	Orange	98.57	Relatively High	79.5%