Florida's Climate Crisis: Hurricanes Are Making Home Too Expensive

The Human Toll

"It's a little hard with the weather, you know? Two hurricanes in a row has kinda tapped me out mentally and almost financially."

- Jenny Gault, a Florida resident when interviewed about her decision to leave.

What's Happening in Numbers

Why It Matters

Climate change is often framed as a distant or developing-world problem. But in Florida, one of America's most prosperous states, climate-driven hurricanes are already upending lives, erasing savings, and forcing families to flee.

The escalating insurance crisis shows that even the richest economies in the world aren't insulated from the rising costs of inaction. Without intervention, climate migration will grow, local economies will falter, and millions of Americans will be at risk.

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