Florida Climate Change Index

Number of energy efficiency jobs in Florida: over 110,000
Number of energy efficiency businesses in Florida: over 14,000
Number of solar jobs in Florida: over 10,000
Number of homes that could be powered by solar production in Florida: over 275,000
Number of solar businesses in Florida: 578
Number of Floridians working in clean energy transmission, distribution and storage: over 50,000
Number of wind industry manufacturing facilities in Florida: 17
Number of jobs supported by wind energy in Florida: 5,000
Amount of Florida’s energy generation coming from renewable sources: 3%

Number of Floridians who are especially vulnerable to extreme heat: over 620,000
Number of extreme weather events that caused over $1 billion in economic losses in Florida from 2007-2016: 10
Number of people killed by extreme weather in Florida in 2018: 43
Number of acres consumed by wildfires in 2018 in Florida: over 138,000
Number of Florida cities of the top 25 cities in the U.S. that are most vulnerable to flooding: 20
Number of Floridians at risk of coastal flooding: 3.5 million
- Number of additional Floridians projected to be at risk due to sea level rise by 2050: 1.1 million
Number of dangerous heat days Florida experiences on average per year: 25
- Number of dangerous heat days per year Florida is projected to see by 2050: 130

Percentage of Floridians that believe climate change was happening in 2018: 70%
Percentage of Floridians that believe climate change is caused mostly by human activities in 2018: 56%
Percentage of Floridians worried about climate change: 60%
Percentage of Floridians who support setting carbon pollution limits on existing coal-fired power plants: 70%

FLORIDA CLIMATE CHANGE INDEX