Palm Beach Expertise Since 2002

  • Coastal gradient mastered — 165 to 170 mph resolved at ZIP precision
  • 24+ years on Palm Beach County permits, all 38 municipalities
  • NOT HVHZ — the catch generalist wind calculators miss
  • 5 distinct PB submarkets understood: Boca, WPB, Jupiter, Wellington, Boynton
  • Calculating Palm Beach wind loads before SkyCiv had employees
  • 7 ASCE editions navigated — 7-95 through 7-22

Drop a pin anywhere in Palm Beach County and the wind load story shifts under your feet. Mar-a-Lago on Palm Beach island sits at roughly 170 mph for Risk Category II. A horse farm in Loxahatchee, 30 miles due west, designs to closer to 160 mph for the same building. In between, Boca Raton splits diagonally between 170 and 165 depending on which side of I-95 the lot sits, Wellington's equestrian estates run 162-165, downtown WPB high-rises pull a flat 170, and the Jupiter Inlet ZIPs hit the upper edge of the gradient. This is not a county where one number works. SkyCiv and the rest of the generalist tools treat Palm Beach as one wind-speed input. We resolve it at the ZIP — and we have been doing it since the year ASCE 7-02 first shipped.

Use the launcher above to drop into the calculator preloaded with your Palm Beach ZIP. The velocity finder applies the per-ZIP ASCE 7-22 wind speed automatically, flags Exposure D for any beachfront or barrier-island address inside the one-mile coastal band, defaults the product approval pathway to Florida statewide FL# (not Miami-Dade NOA — because Palm Beach is not HVHZ), and produces a permit-ready C&C report formatted for direct submittal to PB County PZB or any of the 38 municipal building departments.

The Palm Beach trust block — why this page exists

WindLoadCalc.com was founded in Naples, Florida in 2002 and put its calculator online in 2006 — among the very first online wind load calculators ever published, and nearly twice as long in this market as SkyCiv (founded 2013, online with calculators after that). We have processed Palm Beach County permit work continuously through 7 ASCE editions (7-95, 7-98, 7-02, 7-05, 7-10, 7-16, 7-22), every FBC edition, the 2004 hurricane summer (Frances and Jeanne both crossed Palm Beach), and 24 years of incremental refinement to the coastal gradient logic that the generalist calculators still get wrong. The work is reviewed by our in-house Florida-licensed P.E. The history is verifiable on archive.org.

The single fact that exposes a generalist wind calculator on a Palm Beach permit

Palm Beach County is not HVHZ. The High Velocity Hurricane Zone covers Miami-Dade and Broward only — the regulatory line literally stops at the Broward-Palm Beach county border running through south Boca Raton. Florida statewide Product Approval (FL#) controls every Palm Beach permit, not Miami-Dade NOA. A calculator that defaults to NOA references for Palm Beach work has just told the plan reviewer it does not know the jurisdiction. The HVHZ-vs-not-HVHZ split is the single most-misunderstood fact in Palm Beach permitting — and it is the test we passed on our very first PB permit in 2002.

Palm Beach Wind Speed Reference — Read Across the Gradient

Below: representative Risk Category II design wind speeds for the populated Palm Beach ZIPs you are most likely to permit into, sorted east-to-west to make the gradient visible. The pattern is unmistakable — oceanfront pulls 170, mid-county runs 165, the agricultural fringe at the Turnpike-and-west boundary trends to 160-162. Risk Category III (schools, assembly) and Risk Category IV (hospitals, fire stations, EOCs) compute upward from these baseline values inside the calculator.

City / ZIP — Submarket Notes Risk Cat II Speed What's There
Town of Palm Beach island — 33480 Oceanfront ~170 mph Mar-a-Lago corridor, Worth Avenue, single-family oceanfront mansions
Manalapan / Highland Beach Oceanfront ~170 mph Ultra-luxury single-family barrier island, Exposure D
East Boca Raton — 33432 Coast ~170 mph Oceanfront condo stock, downtown Boca, country club residential
East Delray Beach — 33483 Coast ~170 mph Atlantic Avenue, barrier island residential, downtown mixed-use
Downtown West Palm Beach — 33401 ~170 mph Mid-rise condo stack, intracoastal exposure, CityPlace area
Jupiter (inlet ZIPs) — 33477 ~170 mph Inlet-adjacent coastal residential, marina-area mid-rise
Jupiter (mainland) — 33458 ~165-170 mph Newer-construction single-family teardown/rebuild market
Palm Beach Gardens — 33418 ~165-170 mph PGA corridor, gated mainland residential, country club density
West Boynton Beach — 33437 ~165 mph 55+ communities west of Turnpike, country club single-family
West Delray Beach — 33445 ~165 mph Mainland gated communities, suburban single-family
Suburban West Palm Beach — 33411 ~165 mph Mid-county suburban, between Turnpike and I-95
Wellington — 33414 ~162-165 mph Equestrian estates, polo grounds, country club residential
Loxahatchee Groves — 33470 ~160-162 mph Agricultural / rural fringe, ranch and groves stock

These numbers are starting points — the per-ZIP value is what matters in Palm Beach

The gradient is the whole story here. A baseline table cannot replace the per-ZIP lookup because the contour lines cross the county diagonally and the I-95 corridor sits awkwardly across them. Two project sites on opposite sides of US-1 inside the same municipality may land on different sides of a 5 mph step in the ASCE map. Coastal Exposure D adds another layer of pressure on top of the wind speed itself. Always launch the calculator on the exact project ZIP before designing — the velocity finder reads the per-ZIP value, applies the Exposure D one-mile coastal flag, and returns the controlling design pressure for that address.

Why Palm Beach Is NOT HVHZ — The Generalist Calculator's Achilles Heel

The Florida Building Code defines the High Velocity Hurricane Zone in Section 202 as Miami-Dade and Broward — full stop. The HVHZ designation traces back to the post-Hurricane Andrew (1992) code overhaul, when the two southernmost counties opted into a stricter testing and product approval regime. Palm Beach County, despite identical Atlantic exposure and overlapping hurricane climatology, did not opt in then and has not opted in since. The line is a regulatory artifact, not a meteorological one — and it runs through south Boca Raton along the Broward-Palm Beach county border, which is why this is the catch that fools every generalist calculator that treats Palm Beach as just-another-southeast-Florida-county.

The on-the-ground consequences for a Palm Beach permit submittal:

Florida Building Code 8th Edition in Palm Beach — What Actually Changed

Palm Beach County and all 38 municipalities adopted Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023) on December 31, 2024, with zero county-specific amendments to the wind load chapters. The structural and wind provisions reference ASCE 7-22 as the governing wind load standard. The deltas from FBC 7th Edition that actually matter for Palm Beach work:

Palm Beach permits issued under FBC 7th Edition before the December 31, 2024 effective date can still be carried to completion under that earlier code. If you have an in-flight project that needs a retrofit calc under the prior edition, contact support and we will accommodate.

The Palm Beach Coastal-to-Inland Gradient — Why It Exists, Why It Matters

Miami-Dade is 175. Broward is 170. Collier is 170. Each of those counties either covers a small enough geographic footprint, or made a flat county-wide regulatory adoption, that a single design wind speed describes the whole jurisdiction. Palm Beach cannot be summarized that way. The county runs about 30 miles east-to-west from the Atlantic shoreline to the eastern edge of Lake Okeechobee, and the ASCE 7-22 wind speed contour lines cross it on a diagonal — not parallel to the coast. The oceanfront southeast corner (Boca, Delray island, WPB island) reads about 170 mph; the agricultural Lake Okeechobee fringe (Loxahatchee Groves, Belle Glade, Pahokee) reads closer to 160 mph. The lake itself, large enough to influence local climatology, sits inside Palm Beach County and pulls inland speeds down a notch.

WindLoadCalc resolves the gradient at the ZIP level through its velocity finder. Palm Beach does not have a flat county-wide override (the way Broward does with its uniform 170 mph adoption), so the calculator returns the raw ASCE 7-22 map value for the exact ZIP. Below, the four geographic bands stacked east-to-west and the five named submarkets they correspond to:

Miami-Dade County HVHZ

175 mph

Two counties south. HVHZ jurisdiction — NOA + TAS testing required. Use the Miami-Dade calculator for projects in Miami, Hialeah, Coral Gables, Kendall.

Broward County HVHZ

170 mph (flat)

Directly south across the south-Boca county line. HVHZ with a flat 170 county-wide override. Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pompano, Coral Springs.

Collier County

170 mph

Gulf Coast SW Florida override. Not HVHZ — FL# applies, same product approval pathway as Palm Beach. Naples, Marco Island, Immokalee.

Florida Statewide Hub

All 67 Counties

The state-level hub. Code reference, county comparison, jurisdiction overrides for Monroe (Keys), Lee, Charlotte, Sarasota, Brevard, the Panhandle.

The five Palm Beach submarkets we've mastered over 24 years

Boca Raton

170 mph east / 165 mph west

Oceanfront high-rise condo stock + east-of-Federal country club residential + west-of-Turnpike gated communities. Heaviest impact-glass volume in the county. East ZIPs (33432, 33487) pull 170; western ZIPs (33433, 33434, 33486) sit at 165. Exposure D inside one mile of the Atlantic.

West Palm Beach + Palm Beach Island

170 mph across the board

Barrier-island oceanfront (33480 — Mar-a-Lago corridor, Worth Avenue, single-family mansions) plus the intracoastal mid-rise condo and office stack downtown (33401). Both bands sit at 170; the island is Exposure D, downtown mostly Exposure C unless the surrounding stock qualifies it for B.

Jupiter

165-170 mph (inlet at the top)

Newer-construction single-family stock — heavy teardown-and-rebuild market on older lots. Inlet ZIPs (33477) pull the higher end with coastal exposure; mainland ZIPs (33458) sit at 165-170 depending on east-west position. Less HVHZ-product creep than Boca — buyers are more receptive to the FL#-only pathway.

Wellington

162-165 mph

Equestrian estates, polo grounds, country club single-family. Substantial open-pasture wind fetch keeps Exposure C honest. Generally the lowest design wind speed band in the populated portions of Palm Beach. Larger building footprints mitigate the lower wind speed — the edge strip math still hits.

Boynton Beach + Delray West

165 mph central

The 55+ community belt — country club residential, golf-course-frontage single-family, gated 200-500 home subdivisions between I-95 and the Turnpike. Volume permit market; standardized product mix; the calculator's batch entry pages this submarket especially efficient for repeat builders.

Western interior + Lake fringe

160-162 mph

Loxahatchee Groves, Royal Palm Beach west, the agricultural belt fading into Belle Glade and Pahokee on the Lake Okeechobee shore. Ranch, groves, ag operations. Lowest design speeds in the county; predominantly Exposure C with occasional Exposure D treatment near larger open water on the lake itself.

Why the gradient compounds — the V-squared trap

Design pressure scales with wind speed squared. The jump from 165 mph (west Boynton) to 170 mph (east Boca) is only about 6% in velocity but roughly 12% in C&C pressure once you square it. Apply that 12% delta across a 40-window beachfront fenestration package in Manalapan versus the same window package on an inland Wellington home, and the numbers move products in or out of qualifying FL# pressure tiers. The calculator does this math the right way at the ZIP — not at the county. That ZIP-precision step is what 24 years of Palm Beach permit experience taught us to bake in.

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How to Run a Palm Beach Calc — Five Steps, Submarket-Aware

Drop the Palm Beach ZIP — let the gradient resolve itself

Type the project ZIP into the launcher. The velocity finder identifies Palm Beach County, pulls the per-ZIP ASCE 7-22 wind speed from the verified contour-traced database, flags whether the address falls inside the one-mile coastal Exposure D band, and confirms that the product approval pathway defaults to Florida statewide FL# (not Miami-Dade NOA — because Palm Beach is not HVHZ). That single ZIP entry encodes the entire gradient-and-jurisdiction context that a generalist calculator would force you to enter manually.

Confirm the Risk Category — Palm Beach defaults to II for most stock

Risk Category II is the working default and covers the bulk of Palm Beach permit volume: single-family from Wellington to Manalapan, the Boca and Delray country club residential stock, mid-rise condos under 3 stories in Jupiter and Boynton, retail strip centers along Federal Highway, light commercial. Risk Category III steps up for assembly (Boca Raton churches, schools across the county, Wellington community centers). Risk Category IV is for the hospitals (Bethesda in Boynton, Boca Raton Regional, Good Samaritan in WPB, Jupiter Medical, Wellington Regional) plus fire stations, EOCs, and water treatment plants. Wind speed increases with risk category, so this selection matters before geometry.

Set Palm Beach exposure (D barrier islands, C suburban, B in dense urban) + building shape

Exposure D applies inside the one-mile coastal band along the Atlantic — flag-worthy ZIPs include Palm Beach island (33480), Singer Island, Highland Beach, Manalapan, Ocean Ridge, Boca Raton oceanfront, and the Jupiter Inlet area. Exposure C is the working default for the suburban country club residential and the mainland stock west of US-1. Exposure B is rare but appears in fully built-up urban corridors — downtown West Palm Beach when surrounded by mid-rise, certain Boca Raton commercial blocks. Then input the project geometry: length, width, mean roof height, roof pitch (rise per 12 inches of run), and roof shape from the six covered geometries.

Read the C&C output — Zone 5 corner is the controlling number in Palm Beach

The output for a Palm Beach project leans heavily on getting the ZIP-level wind speed right (an east-Boca number is 5-10 mph above a Wellington number, and that shows up squared in the pressure). MWFRS frames the lateral spine for the structural system; C&C delivers the per-element pressures for windows, doors, shutters, garage doors, roof tile, and other cladding. The C&C table breaks the building into Zone 4 (wall field — the easy zone) and Zone 5 (wall corner — the controlling zone in nearly every Palm Beach project), plus the corresponding roof zones for the geometry you selected. Hand that table to your fenestration vendor and match each opening against the FL# product approval database — if a window's FL# rating exceeds your Zone 5 corner pressure, it qualifies.

Export to PDF, Excel, or architectural schedule — and decide on PE seal

Three export formats: PDF (the engineering report your homeowner and contractor read), Excel (the calc backup your structural PE wants), and the architectural schedule .xlsx (drops directly into AutoCAD as a window/door schedule sheet, originally built for an architect-customer who pushed us to add it). For Florida projects up to 3 stories, the PE sign-and-seal add-on through WindLoadCalc's in-house Florida-licensed P.E. covers most Palm Beach single-family across all five submarkets plus the small commercial stock. For the 4-12 story mid-rise condos that dominate Boca oceanfront, WPB downtown, and Palm Beach island — out of PE scope. For those, the WindLoadCalc output is engineered to be adopted by your project's structural engineer of record as the wind chapter of their stamped calculation set.

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Palm Beach Wind Load FAQ — The Questions Generalist Calculators Cannot Answer

Why is Palm Beach NOT in the HVHZ?
This is the single most-missed fact in Palm Beach permitting, and it is the catch that exposes a generalist wind calculator instantly. The HVHZ — High Velocity Hurricane Zone, codified in Florida Building Code Section 202 — covers Miami-Dade and Broward only. Full stop. The boundary is a jurisdictional line drawn at the Broward-Palm Beach county border (which physically runs through south Boca Raton), not a hurricane-climatology line. Why the gap? When the FBC carved out the HVHZ after Hurricane Andrew (1992), Miami-Dade and Broward had the population density, the damage record, and the political will to enforce the stricter testing regime. Palm Beach County did not opt in then and has not opted in since. So a Boca Raton oceanfront permit and a Hollywood (Broward) oceanfront permit five miles apart sit on opposite sides of a regulatory line — same hurricane wind, different paperwork. The practical Palm Beach consequence: Florida statewide Product Approval (FL#) controls, Miami-Dade NOA does not, TAS 201/202/203 are not mandated, and HVHZ-rated products typically over-spec the project by 2-3x on materials cost. WindLoadCalc has been tracking this exact non-HVHZ nuance through 24 years of Palm Beach permit work.
How does the Palm Beach 165-170 mph gradient actually work across the county?
Palm Beach is roughly 30 miles wide east-to-west, and the ASCE 7-22 wind speed contour lines cross the county diagonally rather than running parallel to the coast. That diagonal contour pattern is what creates the gradient. Pin Mar-a-Lago on Palm Beach island (33480) at the eastern edge: about 170 mph for Risk Category II. Drive 30 miles west to a horse farm in Loxahatchee (33470) past the Florida Turnpike and the western communities: about 160-162 mph for the same risk category. In between, downtown West Palm Beach (33401) sits at 170 mph, suburban West Palm Beach (33411) at 165 mph, and Wellington (33414) at 162-165 mph. The 5 mph difference between east-Boca (170) and west-Boynton (165) looks small but it is a roughly 6% velocity jump that pencils to a roughly 12% pressure jump because design pressure scales with V-squared. Over a 40-window beachfront fenestration package, 12% is real money and can move products in or out of qualifying FL# tiers. The calculator pulls the per-ZIP value through the velocity finder — that is the entire reason we built ZIP-level precision in the first place.
What makes Palm Beach different from Broward for a wind load calculation?
Four things, and they all matter on the permit set. (1) HVHZ status — Broward is HVHZ, Palm Beach is not. That single fact rewires the product approval pathway, the test method references on the drawings, and the inspector's expectations. (2) Wind speed treatment — Broward adopted a flat county-wide 170 mph override that ignores the ASCE map gradient. Palm Beach did not; it follows the raw ASCE 7-22 map, which gives the 165-170 mph diagonal gradient described above. So a Pompano Beach (Broward) permit and a Boynton Beach (Palm Beach) permit ten miles apart hit different design speeds for reasons that have nothing to do with the wind. (3) Plan reviewer culture — Broward reviewers are trained on HVHZ; Palm Beach reviewers (PB County PZB plus the 38 municipal departments) are trained on the statewide FBC pathway. Submitting Miami-Dade NOAs to a Palm Beach reviewer is not wrong, but it draws extra questions. (4) Beachfront stock — Broward beachfront is dominated by high-rise condo (40-50 stories common). Palm Beach beachfront mixes 4-12 story mid-rise condos with single-family oceanfront mansions in Manalapan, Highland Beach, Ocean Ridge, and the Town of Palm Beach itself. The structural design problems are different shapes.
Which Palm Beach submarket is my project in — and why does it matter for the wind report?
We track five distinct Palm Beach submarkets because each one tends to produce a different project shape, exposure category, and product mix. (1) Boca Raton — coastal high-rise condo + east-of-Federal country club residential + west-of-Turnpike gated communities. East-Boca pulls 170 mph; west-Boca pulls 165 mph. Heavy impact-glass volume. (2) West Palm Beach island and downtown — barrier island oceanfront (Mar-a-Lago corridor, 33480) plus the intracoastal mid-rise stack downtown (33401). Both pull 170 mph; the island is Exposure D, downtown is mostly Exposure C. (3) Jupiter — newer construction stock generally, often inland of US-1, runs 165-170 mph with the inlet ZIPs (33477) at the high end. Big single-family teardown-and-rebuild market. (4) Wellington — equestrian and country club residential west of the Turnpike, 160-165 mph, predominantly Exposure C with substantial open-pasture wind fetch. (5) Boynton Beach and Delray west — central-mainland 55+ communities and country clubs, 165 mph. Each submarket has its own go-to product approvals, its own exposure default, and its own local building department culture. The calculator handles the technical side; knowing the submarket helps you frame the report and pick the right product line up front.
Do I need impact windows in Boca Raton or anywhere else in Palm Beach?
Yes — every meaningful population center in Palm Beach County sits inside the Florida Wind-Borne Debris Region (WBDR), which the FBC defines as anywhere the design wind speed is 140 mph or higher. Boca Raton at 165-170 mph blows past that threshold by 25-30 mph. Same answer for Delray, Boynton, Lake Worth, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, Wellington — all of them. Every opening in the building envelope must either (a) carry an impact-rated FL# approval (impact glass, impact door, impact garage door, impact skylight) or (b) be covered by an approved shutter system (accordion, roll-down, panel, fabric, Bahama). Plywood is permitted only as temporary protection on one- and two-family dwellings under specific conditions and only when it meets the FBC's structural spacing requirements. The permit drawings must reference an FL# for whichever product family you spec. The calculator's C&C output is what the FL# product approval rating gets compared against — if your calculated Zone 5 pressure exceeds the FL# rated pressure, that product cannot be used and you have to specify a higher-rated approval.
What changes for a Palm Beach beachfront or barrier island project?
Several layers stack on top of a standard inland Palm Beach permit, and each one adds pressure to the calc or paperwork to the file. (1) Exposure D — anywhere within one mile of unobstructed open water gets Exposure D instead of the suburban-default Exposure C. Exposure D pressures run noticeably higher on C&C, especially in the upper corners of taller structures. The calculator auto-flags Exposure D for Palm Beach island, Singer Island, Highland Beach, Manalapan, Ocean Ridge, the Boca Raton oceanfront, and the Jupiter Inlet ZIPs. (2) Coastal Construction Control Line — projects seaward of the CCCL trigger a separate review by Florida DEP, separate from the building permit. The CCCL review is not a wind load calc question but it gates the project. (3) Architectural review boards — Town of Palm Beach, Manalapan, Highland Beach, Ocean Ridge, and Gulf Stream all run architectural review boards on top of the building code, layering cosmetic and material standards on the structural minimums. (4) Insurance underwriting — beachfront carriers (Citizens, surplus lines, specialty wind-only) read the wind load report directly and may require specific FL# approval tiers regardless of code minimum. WindLoadCalc handles the wind load math (including the Exposure D flag); the DEP, ARB, and insurance pieces are separate workflows.
Are Miami-Dade NOA products required in Palm Beach?
Not required, but not prohibited either. Because Palm Beach is not HVHZ, the Florida statewide Product Approval system (FL# numbers maintained by the Florida Building Commission) is the only controlling pathway for a Palm Beach permit. A product that carries only a Miami-Dade NOA (no companion FL#) technically cannot be used on a Palm Beach permit submittal — even though it would meet or exceed every structural requirement — because the reviewer cannot validate it against the approval database he is required to check. In practice this is rare; most window, door, and shutter manufacturers serving the Florida market carry dual approval (FL# AND Miami-Dade NOA on the same line). When dual-approval products are specified, plenty of Palm Beach buyers prefer them anyway — for resale narrative, insurance discount, or pure peace of mind. The calculator outputs FL# references because that is what the Palm Beach plan reviewer needs to see on sheet A-101.
What about lanais, pool cages, and screen enclosures in Palm Beach?
Standard Palm Beach single-family stock — Boca Raton, Delray, Boynton, Wellington, the country club communities — runs heavy on screened pool cages and lanais. These are typically aluminum-frame structures with screen mesh sidewall infill, and they get classified as Open or Partially Open under ASCE 7-22 (not Enclosed). That changes the internal pressure coefficient GCpi from ±0.18 (Enclosed) to ±0.55 (Open) — a meaningful jump that flows through the C&C math. The aluminum frame still designs to the full ZIP-level wind speed (165-170 mph in Palm Beach); the screen mesh itself gets a partial pressure reduction because air passes through. Roof panels (if any) and the structural fastener-to-host-wall connection see the full design pressure with no reduction. Most Palm Beach municipalities require engineered drawings for any pool cage over a defined sq-ft threshold (commonly 200 sq ft) — and "engineered drawings" means a wind load calc that matches FBC 8th Edition / ASCE 7-22. The calculator handles all four ASCE enclosure types so you can model the pool cage correctly.
Can WindLoadCalc PE-stamp my Palm Beach project?
For Florida projects up to 3 stories — yes. For most Palm Beach beachfront condo work — no, and we will tell you that up front. WindLoadCalc's in-house Florida-licensed P.E. covers Florida structures of 3 stories or less. That comfortably handles single-family across all five Palm Beach submarkets — Boca Raton single-family, Delray and Boynton country club homes, Jupiter teardown-and-rebuilds, Wellington equestrian residential, and the older 1-2 story stock throughout the western communities. It also covers small commercial up to 3 stories. What it does NOT cover: the 4-12 story mid-rise condo stock that dominates Boca Raton oceanfront, West Palm Beach downtown, and Palm Beach island, and obviously the rare 30+ story tower projects. For those, you need a Florida structural engineer of record outside our scope. The good news: the WindLoadCalc output is engineered to be adopted by your project's structural PE as the wind load basis — it is the same ASCE 7-22 / FBC 8th Edition math, formatted for direct inclusion in the structural calc package. Many Palm Beach structural firms use our output as the wind chapter of their stamped calculation sets.
How long has WindLoadCalc been calculating Palm Beach wind loads?
Since 2002 — 11 years before SkyCiv was founded. We've tracked the Palm Beach 165-170 mph coastal-to-inland gradient through Frances and Jeanne (2004), Wilma (2005), Matthew (2016), Irma (2017), and seven ASCE 7 editions (7-95, 7-98, 7-02, 7-05, 7-10, 7-16, 7-22). Where SkyCiv treats Palm Beach as a generic Florida zip, we know Boca Raton oceanfront reads 5–10 mph above Wellington Estates — and we've been calculating that nuance for 24 years.

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