Hurricane Ian ravaged some of the fastest-growing counties in the U.S., pulverizing communities whose populations have doubled or tripled in recent decades during a period of explosive construction.
Hurricane Ian’s path of destruction cut through some of the fastest-growing counties in the nation, pulverizing communities whose populations have doubled and tripled in recent decades during a period of deceptive atmospheric calm.
“The story of Florida is the story of development happening at times and places where it probably shouldn’t,” said Jonathan Webber of Florida Conservation Voters. The storm will expose a wide range of vulnerabilities in the nation’s most hurricane-prone state including a failing property insurance market, a widespread lack of flood insurance and breakneck development.
The rainfall forecast also is alarming because it will create massive flooding in inland areas where few people have flood insurance, said Craig Fugate, a former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the past head of the Florida Division of Emergency Management.— worth a combined $1.6 trillion — are at risk of being damaged by flash flooding.
Orange County, the landlocked central Florida county that includes Orlando, has nearly double the number of people as Palm Beach County on the southeast coast — roughly 1.5 million. But only a fraction of those inland residents have flood policies. Hurricane Ian “is only going to push it further off the cliff,” Webber of Florida Conservation Voters said of Florida’s insurance market.
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