Flood Conditions In Effect
The National Weather Service has a flood watch or warning in effect for this area right now — read the official alerts card below for the full text. Sandbag guidance appears under the alerts while the flood threat lasts. If water gets into your home, After the Water — Recovery HQ has the recovery steps.
Official Weather Alerts
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Sandbag & Flood Supply Detector
When flooding threatens, Indian River County opens free sandbag sites — locations and hours are announced through Emergency Management and can change by the hour. Call the EOC hotline and ask what's open right now, or dial 2-1-1 (their operators field this exact question all day).
When the county opens sandbag sites they're free — bring a shovel, fill your own. None announced right now; the EOC line above is the first to know. Don't drive to a rumored site on flooded roads.
Home Depot, Lowe's, Ace and farm-supply stores stock empty bags and bagged sand year-round — and sell out in hours during a flood. Call your store before you drive; nobody can promise a full shelf.
Local yards sell filled bags or sand by the scoop. During the last major storm, 211 listed a Vero gravel yard selling filled bags for about $2 — that was 2024 and is unconfirmed today, but calling a yard near you is the move. 20 filled bags = 600+ lbs.
Heavy-duty trash bags filled a third with soil or mulch can dam a doorway in a pinch. Not as good as sand — better than watching water come under the door.
bags, roughly
- Sheet first: 6-mil plastic sheeting against the door is what actually seals — bags just hold it.
- Fill half to two-thirds (30–40 lbs). Floppy stacks and seals; overfilled doesn't.
- First row tight to the door, lengthwise, ends overlapped like bricks. Tamp with your foot.
- Stagger joints each row up, open ends folded under. Build one row higher than you need.
- Know the limit: bags hold back inches of slow water. If water is rising inside, get people out and call 911.
Turn Around, Don't Drown: never drive through flooded roads — 6 inches of water can stall a car, 12 can float one. Treat floodwater as contaminated. 911 for emergencies; the EOC line for everything else.
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Beach & Surf
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🐢 Sea turtle nesting season (Mar 1 – Oct 31): keep beach lights off or shielded after dark, fill in holes and take chairs off the sand at night — nesting turtles and hatchlings need a dark, clear beach. FWC sea turtle guidance
No statement found is not a guarantee of safe swimming. Always check the flag at the lifeguard stand before entering the water.
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Power Outages
FPL doesn't provide a public live feed we can display, so we won't guess at your power status. The official FPL outage map shows current outages and restoration estimates by address.
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Gage height in feet at the USGS station — a big driver of Sebastian-area flooding after heavy rain. Full USGS record
Lagoon Level — Live
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Water level in the Indian River Lagoon at the Wabasso gauge, between Sebastian and Vero Beach — lagoon levels drive dock, seawall and low-yard flooding, especially around king tides. Full USGS record
Fishing — Moon & Solunar
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What's On This Week
Concerts, markets, festivals, theatre and everything else happening around the Treasure Coast — big or small — lives on the Weekender, where you can filter by town, day and kind of event.
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Tropical Outlook — Hurricane Season
The National Hurricane Center's Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook is the official word on developing storms, updated four times a day during hurricane season. Any watch or warning for our coast appears in the live alerts card at the top of this board the moment it is issued.
Fire Danger & Burn Bans
Wildfire danger swings fast in the dry season, and burn bans are county decisions that change with conditions — so we link the official sources instead of copying a rating that could go stale on this board.
Mosquito Spraying
Spray trucks run after sunset, and which zones get treated is decided day by day — both districts publish their scheduled zones and maps. Check your district before an evening outside:
Official Local Sources
For a real emergency, call 911. For storm preparation guidance, use the county's Emergency Management pages and Ready.gov.
🏠 Home flooded? After the Water — Recovery HQ — the step-by-step recovery guide, with a photo-log tool for insurance claims.
About this board: an unofficial community page built by Web Ventures. Weather alerts, forecasts and the surf forecast come from the National Weather Service; tide times are NOAA predictions for the listed station, not measurements at your beach; river and lagoon levels are USGS gauge readings. UV, heat, rainfall and air quality are model estimates (Open-Meteo), and solunar fishing windows are computed approximations. Information can be delayed or unavailable — a missing report is never proof that conditions are safe. Always follow official guidance during severe weather.