STATE OF EMERGENCY HURRICANE
Report emergency price gouging
Florida protects emergency purchases from unconscionable pricing in declared areas, including essentials and certain storm repair services.
File an official complaint (opens in a new tab)The benefit
A way to challenge extreme storm prices.
- Supplies and storm services
- Essentials
- Declared-area transactions
- Local
- Official complaint route
- Report
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The Attorney General's Office receives complaints and can investigate suspected violations of Florida's emergency pricing law.
How to get it
Make your report useful
- When safe, save the receipt and photograph the posted price, product size or service estimate.
- Record the seller's name, address and the transaction date, including the earlier price if you know it.
- Use the official price-gouging form or call 1-866-966-7226 to report what happened.
A price increase alone does not prove a violation. Added costs and market trends may explain it. Coverage depends on the transaction and declared area; reporting does not guarantee a refund.
Requirements, declaration & official sources
Declared Florida counties · confirm your county and personal eligibility
Covers emergency necessities such as food, water, ice, fuel, lumber, generators, lodging or dwelling rentals, self-storage, tree removal, roof repair and water mitigation.
This concerns covered transactions and services in the declared area. A saved home address does not establish that a particular purchase is covered.
A gross disparity from the seller's average price during the preceding 30 days can create a presumption of an unconscionable price. Higher costs and market trends may explain an increase; the Attorney General investigates.
EO 26-202 specifically invokes §501.160. The protection follows the declaration, initially up to 60 days, unless extended by a later order. An emergency declaration is not a cash award.
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
