St. Lucie County Public Safety

Disaster preparedness in St. Lucie County is run by the county Public Safety Department on West Midway Road in Fort Pierce, while everyday calls go to 911 or to the non-emergency lines of the Sheriff, the Fire District and city police.

The county hurricane preparedness guide opens with a page of numbers: call 911 only to report an emergency; St. Lucie County Public Safety at (772) 462-8100; county administration at (772) 462-1100; the Sheriff's Office non-emergency line at (772) 462-7300; the St. Lucie County Fire District non-emergency line at (772) 621-3400; and the St. Lucie County emergency information line, (772) 460 4357, also written 460 HELP (St. Lucie County hurricane preparedness guide). The county home page lists the St. Lucie County Fire District, the Sheriff's Office, Fort Pierce Police, Port St. Lucie Police and Marine Safety under its Health and Safety links (St. Lucie County home page).

State law sets up that structure. Section 252.38 of the Florida Statutes calls safeguarding life and property an innate responsibility of each local governing body and requires every county to establish and maintain an emergency management agency serving the whole county, with a county emergency management plan consistent with the state plan (Florida Statutes section 252.38). The St. Lucie County website lists Emergency Management under its Public Safety department (St. Lucie County home page), and the county guide gives the Public Safety address as 15305 W. Midway Rd., Fort Pierce (county preparedness guide).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, against the St. Lucie County preparedness guide, Emergency Preparedness Portal, shelter and evacuation page and special needs page.

Alert St. Lucie is the county's emergency alert system: residents sign up at stlucieco.gov/alert to receive texts, emails or phone calls.

The St. Lucie County Emergency Preparedness Portal says Alert St. Lucie notifications cover weather alerts, major traffic accidents and other issues raised by area public safety and law enforcement agencies, and the portal itself posts any active emergency orders, government closures and shelter activations (St. Lucie County Emergency Preparedness Portal). In an emergency, the portal points residents to stlucieco.gov/eoc, radio and television, and asks evacuees not to go home until instructed to do so.

Official emergency public information, according to the St. Lucie County guide, runs on SLCTV (Comcast channel 28), the West Palm Beach stations WPTV channel 5, WPEC channel 12, WPBF channel 25 and WFLX channel 29, radio WQCS 88.9 FM and the county website (county preparedness guide). For storm power outages the same guide lists Florida Power and Light at (800) 4-OUTAGE, and it points readers to ReadyStLucie.org for more planning information.

The St. Lucie County guide asks every household to know its evacuation zone, decide where it will go, build a supply kit for three to five days and set up an out-of-town contact.

Its plan checklist starts with checking whether the home sits in an evacuation zone and choosing a destination for when an order comes, then lists photographing possessions, reviewing insurance policies, deciding where to park a vehicle, boat or RV, protecting the home with shutters or a generator, arranging in advance for people with special medical needs, planning for pets and spreading supply purchases over an 8-week period to spread out the cost (St. Lucie County hurricane plan checklist). The guide's advice on tree work is specific to storm season: no pruning or curbside trash during a tropical storm or hurricane watch or warning, and questions go to the St. Lucie County Solid Waste Department at 772-462-1768.

The St. Lucie County checklist explains the cash line plainly: banks and ATMs may not be open or available for extended periods after a storm. It also warns against focusing only on the forecast cone or the category, since storm surge, flooding, high winds and tornadoes typically reach well outside the cone.

St. Lucie County publishes its evacuation zones, shelter map, special needs registration and the Secure Registry from the Public Safety pages, and each needs attention before a storm, not during one.

The county Shelter and Evacuation Information page links the evacuation zones and routes map, the sheltering map and an active evacuations map, and it describes the Secure Registry, which gives law enforcement and first responders contact details and descriptions of registered people with disabilities such as autism or dementia; St. Lucie County asks families to renew that registration every year (St. Lucie County shelter and evacuation page). General population shelters are a refuge of last resort in the county's words, and Public Safety points residents first to family or friends living outside the evacuation zones.

Residents whose health needs some medical help can pre-register for the St. Lucie County Special Needs Shelter, which the county runs with the Florida Department of Health at the Havert L. Fenn Center, 2000 Virginia Avenue, Fort Pierce; registrations are cleared each year, so clients must sign up again annually, and a paper form is available from Public Safety at 772-462-8100 (St. Lucie County Special Needs Program). The St. Lucie County hurricane evacuation zones guide explains Zones A and B and how to look up an address, and the hurricane shelters guide covers each shelter type.

After a storm St. Lucie County asks residents to report damage online, apply for repair permits online and report utility problems to the provider that serves their address.

The county portal links a public damage report, sends residents to St. Lucie County Citizen Self-Service to apply for roof, fence and screen enclosure permits, and asks that debris be separated by type under county guidelines (county Emergency Preparedness Portal, after the emergency). It warns residents to hire only licensed and insured contractors and to check licenses with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. FEMA questions go to 1-800-621-FEMA, and the portal says an applicant who disagrees with a FEMA decision may appeal within 60 days of the date of the decision letter.

Which line to call depends on the address: the portal lists separate water and sewer providers for the county system, Port St. Lucie, St. Lucie West and FPUA. Lost or found pets after a storm go to St. Lucie County Animal Safety at 772-462-8120, according to the same page.

The St. Lucie County safety section has one guide for each storm question, and every safety guide appears in the linked list under this page.

The hurricane evacuation zones guide answers which St. Lucie County zone an address sits in, what Zones A and B mean, who should leave and how evacuation orders are announced. The hurricane shelters guide covers general population, special needs and pet-friendly shelters, including the Havert L. Fenn Center in Fort Pierce and the Port St. Lucie Community Center. For the county as a whole, the St. Lucie County profile gives the hurricane basics in brief, and the Port St. Lucie safety section covers city flood zones and hurricane preparedness.