Pensacola Bay at Fort Pickens (in MHHW)

The past week

What floods at each level

• 6 ft

  Flooding begins in the main park area of Fort Pickens. Nearly all buildings west of the bridge on the bay side are at least surrounded by water.

• 5 ft

  Many homes and condos on the bay side between Ft Pickens and the Pensacola Beach Bridge are surrounded by water. Nearly all of Fort Pickens Road in the park is flooded. Pensacola Beach Blvd. south of the bridge begins to flood.

• 4.5 ft

  Homes in the Villa Sabine subdivision become surrounded by water.

• 4 ft

  Flooding begins within the Fort Pickens park near the campground and just east of the main part of the park. Water surrounds homes just outside Ft Pickens an Galvez Ct. Water approaches Pensacola Beach Blvd south of the bridge.

• 3.5 ft

  Water overwashes Ft Pickens Rd in the central and eastern parts of the Gulf Islands National Seashore. Water surrounds some condos between Le Port Dr and Sabine Dr.

• 3 ft

  Homes along Benton Drive, Rodgers Drive, Berthe Avenue, Plantation Drive, and Plantation Way begin to flood.

• 2.5 ft

  Water begins to cover parts of Fort Pickens Rd, along with the central and eastern parts of Gulf Island National Seashore.

• 2 ft

  Water begins to approach the north side of Fort Pickens Rd, along with cenral and eastern parts of Gulf Islands National Seashore.

When the water runs low

• 5 ft

  Stage needed to inundate designated Gulf Sturgeon critical habitat below Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam.

• 3 ft

  Temporary (not sustainable) operating level for of Scholz Power Plant