Pinellas County does have some topographically very high areas. St. Petersburg was an island 125,000 years ago when sea level was 20 feet higher. Northern Pinellas County was an island 125,000 years ...

On June 25th, 2025, strong thunderstorms developed over Pinellas County as the east and west coast sea breeze boundaries ...

Pinellas County's sustainability and resiliency coordinator said he finds NOAA's application guide helpful as he makes plans for an area that's already experiencing tidal impacts and effects to ...

Pinellas County Emergency Management officials have completed revisions on the evacuation level map and posted the revised map on the county Web site. Go to www.pinellascounty.org and click on ...

In 2024, a total of 423 loggerhead, green, and leatherback sea turtle nests were documented across Pinellas County. Each nest typically contains between 100 and 150 eggs.

Nearly surrounded by water, the people of Pinellas County received one more reason last week to worry about hurricanes: A newly released study shows that over the decades, high tides have been ...

By Brendan Rivers In the Tampa Bay area, Pinellas County is teaching real estate agents how to field questions about flooding — an increasingly common concern when homebuyers talk to Realtors.

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – Mandatory evacuations have been expanded to all residents and businesses in Level B and are already underway for people living in Level A in Pinellas County ...

The Surfrider Foundation took a look at how states are preparing for sea level rise, erosion and future infrastructure. PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Florida's beaches span hundreds of miles ...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — A new technology that will help predict hurricane impacts is coming to St. Pete! It's a sailboat that will map the ocean-floor in our area over the next month.

On Friday and Saturday at St. Petersburg College in Seminole, dozens of policy-makers, scientists and residents talked about a growing concern in Pinellas County: sea-level rise. A University of Miami ...