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Sebastian is a city in Indian River County, Florida, United States at the confluence of the St. Sebastian River and the Indian River. [7] It is two miles away from the Atlantic Ocean . It is the largest city in Indian River County and the biggest population center between Palm Bay and Fort Pierce . [ 8 ]
These FIRMs are used in identifying whether a land or building is in flood zone and, if so, which of the different flood zones are in effect. In 2004, FEMA began a project to update and digitize the flood plain maps at a yearly cost of $200 million. The new maps usually take around 18 months to go from a preliminary release to the final product.
On the new maps in Palm Beach County, about 5,000 properties have moved to a high-risk flood zone, also considered a "special flood hazard area," from a low- or medium-risk flood zone.
The Indian River is a 121-mile (195 km) long [1] brackish-water lagoon on Florida's eastern Atlantic coast. [2] It is part of the Indian River Lagoon system, which in turn forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. It was originally called Río de Ais by the Spanish, after the Ais tribe who lived along the east coast of what is now Florida.
Flood watches that affected millions across southeastern Florida have ended but a watch remained in place for nearly 1.5 million people along eastern Florida through the evening.
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
On June 11, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) began monitoring a trough of low pressure over the Eastern Gulf of Mexico that was expected to produce heavy rainfall over the state of Florida. [3] Later that day, it was designated as Invest 90L, allowing for greater monitoring of the system. [4] [5] The invest then moved over Florida. [6]
Get the Sebastian, FL local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.