AUSTIN, Texas —
Florida dropped back to second place, but remains close to the top of the 18 hurricane-target coastal states in building codes in a 2015 rating report released Wednesday by the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety.
The Institute, in an update of its 2012 findings, gave Florida 94 points out of 100, placing it just behind Virginia’s 95. In 2012, Florida and Virginia tied at 95.
The report’s release came the day of the general session of the National Hurricane Conference, meeting in Austin, Texas.
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In delivering the report, the institute’s president, Julie Rochman, stressed that strong building codes are the minimum of what a state should be doing for hurricane preparation.
