The ominous strings of the Jaws theme may give you chills, but public health officials warn of a bigger beach threat: Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria in warm coastal waters.

The Images of Recovery survey will collect photodata about how three years of hurricanes have impacted Floridians.

Hurricane Ian in 2022 was the most expensive hurricane in recent history, causing $133 billion of damage across Florida ... of thousands of homes. The map below shows that the power outages ...

They have been assessing and repairing the damage and removing ... still have far to go Map: Which Fort Myers Beach houses damaged in Hurricane Ian must be demolished? Sanibel, Captiva: Many ...

Hurricane Ian, after flattening swaths of southwest Florida, left widespread flooding across the state’s interior, causing nearly $113 billion in damage and ... get out that map of the flooded ...

NORTH PORT – North Port's building department will not consider work done in recent years in calculations used to decide whether to issue rebuilding permits in flood zones where homes were damaged by ...

Hurricane Ian killed at least 148 people in Florida, most of them in coastal communities where the danger of storm surge is well documented but not widely understood. Scores drowned as they fled ...

Public concern about hurricanes is centered mostly on wind damage, experts note. But a large, slow-moving Category 4 storm like Hurricane Ian would push a catastrophic surge across much of coastal ...

The first thing James Fountain looks at in a hurricane ... the damage was delivered by a peak surge that may have been a few feet lower than projected — but when it’s as extreme as Ian ...

With damage from Ian estimated at several times ... residents gathered daily at a portable kitchen to map out the way forward after the hurricane, and there was an unwritten rule.

With damage from Ian estimated at several times ... residents gathered daily at a portable kitchen to map out the way forward after the hurricane, and there was an unwritten rule.

Hurricane Michael did an estimated $25 billion in damage in 2018. Damage from Ian is estimated at several times that much. Skip to content NOWCAST News 9 at Noon ...