What's Your Hurricane Evacuation Zone and Plan?

Find your evacuation zone and make a plan now. Determining your evacuation zone, nearest shelters and hotels only takes a couple of minutes with the resources from the Pinellas County Emergency Management team and website.

Know Your Zone

Pinellas County has five evacuation zones: 

• A (Red) - Potential surge is 4 to 8 feet.
• B (Orange) - Potential surge is 8 to 14 feet.
• C (Yellow) - Potential surge is 14 to 19 feet.
• D (Green) - Potential surge is 19 to 26 feet.
• E (Purple) - Potential surge is 26 to 29 feet.

To find out what evacuation zone you live in, enter your address on the Pinellas County Emergency Management website. Print the results if you can. It may even be wise to email the results to family or friends living nearby or out of state. This may help if you lose or misplace the list during an evacuation.

If you are unable to look up your zone online, call the Pinellas County's automated system at 727-453-3150 and type in your home phone number, or call the Pinellas County Emergency Management Department at 727-464-3800 and speak with someone over the phone between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Example Address:

The Safety Harbor Fire Department is located at 700 Main Street. When the address is entered in the Pinellas County's "Know Your Zone" website, the results are:

Evacuation Zone D

Closest Hurricane Shelters: Safety Harbor Middle School, McMullen Booth Elementary School and Clearwater Fundamental Middle School

Closest Special Needs Shelters: Oak Grove Middle School, Dunedin Highland Middle School and John Hopkins Middle School

Closest Accommodations: La Quinta Clearwater Central, Best Western Clearwater Grand Hotel & Suites, and Hampton Inn Central. All three hotels are in a Non-Evacuation Zone.

Mobile/Manufactured Homes

People living in a mobile home must evacuate, even if they are not located in an evacuation zone. This includes the Briar Creek, Amber Glades and Bay's End Manor mobile home communities.

Emergency Shelters

There are 32 shelters in Pinellas County. Not all of them are special needs or pet friendly. Check out the complete list on the Pinellas County Emergency Management's website to plan ahead if you need a specialized shelter.

The closest shelters to Safety Harbor include:

• Safety Harbor Middle School, 901 1st Ave. N., Safety Harbor
• McMullen Booth Elementary School, 302 Union St., Clearwater
• (Pet friendly; Special needs) Dunedin Highland Middle School, 70 Patricia Ave., Dunedin

Evacuation Route

We have attached the evacuation route provided by the Pinellas County Emergency Management Department to print. Here are major roads that will lead you inland out of Safety Harbor:

• Eastbound on Route 60
• Westbound on Route 60
• Northbound on McMullen Booth Road
• Southbound on McMullen Booth Road
• Eastbound on SR 580 
• Westbound on SR 580

All of the information has been provided by the Pinellas County Emergency Management Department. For more information, download and print the 2012 Hurricane Guide.

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