Find your zone,
before the storm finds you.
A plainspoken atlas of every coastal evacuation zone in Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Louisiana. Type your address, ZIP, or city. We return the zone the state would call first.
The atlas.
Storm surge, in plain language.
Storm surge is the deadliest part of most hurricanes. Not wind. Not rain. Water — pushed ahead of the storm by its winds and low pressure — that arrives in minutes, not hours, and travels miles inland over flat, low ground.
Evacuation zones are the maps emergency managers draw to answer one practical question: who needs to leave first? Zones aren't drawn around neighborhoods or politics. They're drawn around elevation, historical surge, and flood-model output. Zone A is what goes underwater in a Category 1. Zone E is what goes under in a Category 5.
When officials lift a zone, they're not asking everyone to leave — they're asking the people whose homes will fill with water to leave, while there's still road.
- A.01Lower letter, leave earlier.
Zone A clears before Zone B. Zone B before C. The state doesn't lift them all at once — it lifts the ones the storm will reach first. - A.02Your zone is fixed; orders are not.
You'll always be in the same zone, but whether your zone is ordered depends on the specific storm: its track, intensity, and tide. Look up your zone now. Watch for orders later. - A.03Inland is not safe by default.
Surge can travel 25+ miles inland on flat ground. The check isn't “am I near the beach?” — it's “what's my elevation, and does the state agree?” - A.04The official map is always the final word.
We pull from state and county data and cross-link the authoritative Know Your Zone resource on every result page. When in doubt, defer to the agency that drew the line.