STATE OF EMERGENCY HURRICANE
Protect an eligible permit's remaining time
Certain building, development and environmental authorizations can preserve their remaining time during a natural emergency and receive an additional extension.
Review covered permits and exceptions (opens in a new tab)The benefit
More time to use an eligible permit.
- During the emergency
- Paused
- Eligible remaining time
- +24 months
- Notice after actual termination
- 90 days
Provided by
The agency that issued your authorization confirms coverage and receives your written notice. The Florida statute sets the extension requirements.
How to get it
Protect the time attached to your authorization
- Find your permit number and the agency that issued it.
- Ask the issuing agency whether the authorization and project location qualify and how to submit a notice.
- Submit written notice identifying the authorization within 90 days after the declaration actually ends; keep proof of submission.
Multiple natural emergencies are capped at 48 months of total extension under this provision. Geographic and statutory exceptions apply. A renewal can change the notice deadline; this extends time, not permit approval or project funding.
Requirements, declaration & official sources
Declared Florida counties · confirm your county and personal eligibility
Covered authorizations include local development orders, building permits, DEP and water-management-district environmental permits, development agreements and formal wetland delineations, subject to the statute's exceptions.
The declaration pauses eligible time limits during the emergency and adds 24 months. Multiple natural emergencies cannot extend the authorization more than 48 months in total under this provision.
The holder must notify the issuing agency in writing within 90 days after the declaration's actual termination, identify the specific authorization and state the intent to use the extension.
A renewal can change the actual termination date. Confirm the order's end and your permit with the issuing agency; Policy Angel does not calculate a notice deadline from an assumed expiration.
This is a time extension, not a grant payment or automatic permit approval.
EO 26-202 · amended by EO 26-211 · Initial expiration: December 5, 2026 · a renewal or rescission can change this
Declared counties
- Baker
- Bay
- Calhoun
- Citrus
- Columbia
- Dixie
- Escambia
- Franklin
- Gadsden
- Gilchrist
- Gulf
- Hamilton
- Holmes
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Lafayette
- Leon
- Levy
- Liberty
- Madison
- Okaloosa
- Santa Rosa
- Suwannee
- Taylor
- Wakulla
- Walton
- Washington
