Hurricane season
Milton and Helene came through with no damage of any kind.
- Wind design
- 170 mph
- FEMA flood zone
- Zone X
- Roof membrane
- 60-mil TPO
Below is what happened in the 2024 storms, and what the site and the buildings were engineered for.
10.2024
October 2024
Hurricane Milton
Hurricane Milton, October 2024: no water intrusion, no leaks, no compromised units.
Milton made landfall at Siesta Key, roughly seventy miles north of the site, as a Category 3 with winds up to 120 mph. That is a real storm, and it is well short of what the buildings were engineered for.
So Milton is not a test of the design figure. It shows that the roof, the walls and the doors did their job in the conditions they saw. The 170 mph design figure is the engineering claim, and Milton is the operating record. They are different kinds of evidence.
13461 Shire Ln
The site
Nine miles inland, in FEMA Zone X
The site is in FEMA Flood Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area, and roughly nine miles inland from the open Gulf.
In figures
The site and the structure, in figures.
- Concrete
- concrete construction with an integrated concrete mezzanine
- 14 ft
- 14 ft clear beneath the mezzanine
- 170 mph
- 170 mph ultimate design wind speed
- Zone X
- FEMA Flood Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area
- 21 ft
- 21 ft site elevation, per site survey
- 9 miles
- roughly nine miles inland from the open Gulf
Sources
- NOAA National Hurricane Center
- Hurricane Milton's Siesta Key landfall, category and landfall wind speed.
- Lee County GIS and FEMA flood mapping
- The parcel's FEMA flood zone designation.
Verified August 2026