"It will be flexible to be able to call various zones to be evacuated."Įven though the season is predicted to be mild, city leaders want you to be ready.
"We want people to go to an area where they are safe, and this gives us a new tool to be able to message that," Woodard said. These county-wide evacuation route and zone maps are based upon the most up-to-date regional evacuation studies and are intended for general reference. Zone F are the traditional flooding zones - low-lying areas areas were people frequently experience flooding.ĭOWNLOAD/PRINT: Duval County's new evacuation mapīased on the new map, during a severe storm much of the beaches and Northside would evacuate while most of the Southside would shelter in place. Evacuation Routes - enter an address or use your device location to Know Your Zone and view nearby designated evacuation routes. The relationship between the BFE and a structures elevation. The BFE is the regulatory requirement for the elevation or floodproofing of struc tures. BFE is the computed elevation to which floodwater is anticipated to rise during the base flood. Zone E would be told to go if the city were to take a direct hit from a major storm. Base Flood Elevations (BFEs) are shown on Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and the flood profiles. Zone D would be inland areas on the Northside and along the beaches near the southern end of the county and more areas areas on the Westside. Zone C are areas again near the beaches, but more people on the Northside and some downtown areas would also be effected. Each flood zone describes the flood risk for a particular area, and those flood zones are used to. Zone B is primarily at the beaches, but there are some parts downtown and the Northside. Flood zones are indicated in a communitys flood map. You'd expect in beachfront homes to be asked to leave first, but under the new plan there were areas in the Northside and Southside and even parts of the Westside along inland waterways that would also be told to evacuate. People living in Zone A would be the first to evacuate.
Emergency officials' advice to residents: Know your zone. But currently there are areas prone to fresh-water flooding that were not incorporated in the methodology in the past," said Steven Woodard, director of Duval County Emergency Management. "In the past it was based solely on wind speed, the category of the approaching storm. In the new maps (shown at bottom of this article), the city and federal government based evacuation zones on different factors: storm surge and flooding, so areas along the river far from the coast would be evacuated at the same time as people living along the coast. In the past, evacuation were based only on the strength of an approaching storm and how fast it was moving. – Days before the start of the 2014 hurricane season, the city of Jacksonville released brand new evacuation maps.
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