{"id":306208,"date":"2026-06-13T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306208\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:33:11","slug":"florida-2026-hurricane-season-how-to-prepare-your-home-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306208\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida 2026 hurricane season. How to prepare your home and family"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season<\/a> runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, and whether you’re a new, longtime or lifelong Florida resident, you should know how to prepare for hurricane season.<\/p>\n

An\u00a0average season\u00a0has 14 named storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes. Florida was predicted to have somewhat below-normal activity \u2014 with 13 named storms, including six hurricanes, two of which could be major.<\/p>\n

Here are some tips to keep yourself safe in the event of a hurricane.<\/p>\n

How to prepare before hurricane season<\/p>\n

Evacuation plan: Plan where you would go and how you would get there, plan several routes.<\/p>\n

Disaster supplies: Non-perishable food, water, medicine, extra cash, a battery-powered radio and flashlights.<\/p>\n

Insurance checkup and document possessions: Call your insurance company and ask for an insurance check-up to make sure you have enough insurance to repair or replace your home and\/or belongings.<\/p>\n

Communication plan: Write down your hurricane plan and share it with your family, determine family meeting places including an out-of-town location in case of evacuation. Write down emergency contacts.<\/p>\n

Prepare your home: Trim trees, install storm shutters, impact glass, get plywood, steel or aluminum panels incase you need to board up windows or doors.<\/p>\n

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For more information and tips visit noaa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Olivia Franklin<\/a>\u00a0is TCPalm\u2019s trending reporter.\u00a0You can contact her at\u00a0olivia.franklin@tcpalm.com,\u00a0317-627-8048\u00a0or follow her on X\u00a0@Livvvvv_5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Florida 2026 hurricane season. How to prepare your home for hurricanes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, and whether you’re a new, longtime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120073,28,30,29,112046,1847],"class_list":["post-306208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-atlantic-hurricane","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hurricane-plan","tag-hurricane-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}