Broward County · High-Velocity Hurricane Zone

Roofing in Miramar, FL

Miramar began in the 1950s as a bedroom community of small concrete homes with flat roofs, and it grew into a 14-mile strip that runs from US 441 to the edge of the Everglades.

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That spread matters for your roof. East Miramar has been built out since the mid-1960s, so many homes there predate the 1994 South Florida Building Code and can need roof-to-wall strapping when re-roofed. Out west, homes are newer and sit beside the open Everglades. Everywhere in the city, Broward's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone rules and Miami-Dade NOA product approvals apply.

Your roof in Miramar at a glance

Who issues roof permits: City of Miramar Building, Planning & Zoning Department¹
Building permit applications, including re-roofs, must be submitted through the city's Tyler self-service portal, which is also where you schedule inspections; the city reviews under the Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023).
Code that governs: Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), including the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ) chapters
Product approval: Miami-Dade NOA, or a Florida Product Approval listed for HVHZ use, for every roof component.
Design wind speed: Broward is in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so Section 1620.2 of the Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), fixes one design wind speed for the whole county instead of using the map: 170 mph for Risk Category II buildings, which covers houses. Your roof's actual uplift pressures also depend on its height, shape and the roof zone (corners and edges see the most), so the permit drawings or product approval set the fastening, not the map number alone.²
Homes: Median home built in 1996. 58.4% of 46,380 homes were built before 2000; 62.3% are detached single-family houses.³
Neighborhoods: Country Club Ranches · Silver Shores · Sunset Lakes

What is on the roofs in Miramar

Miramar's first houses were 56 inexpensive concrete homes with flat roofs, built after developer A.L. Mailman bought land from H.D. Perry Sr. in 1953. The eastern quarter of the city has been largely built out since the mid-1960s. The rest of the city stretches 14 miles west to the Everglades Conservation Area past US 27, so the farther west you live, the newer your house tends to be.^4,5,6

Local rules and history that affect your roof

Miramar incorporated on May 26, 1955, with fewer than 200 residents on about 2.9 square miles between SW 64th Avenue, University Drive, the Dade County line and Pembroke Road. Founding mayor Robert Gordon named it after a Havana suburb.⁷
The city was planned as a bedroom community for Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Today it is 14 miles long east to west and only 2.5 miles wide, the third-largest city in Broward by land area.^4,6
Miramar's western boundary sits half a mile west of US 27, against the Everglades Conservation Area, so its westernmost neighborhoods border open wetland rather than other suburbs.⁵
Under Florida Building Code, Existing Building 706.8, re-roofing a wood-deck home insured (or assessed) at $300,000 or more that was permitted before September 1, 1994 triggers a roof-to-wall connection upgrade. In east Miramar, built out since the 1960s, most homes predate that line.^6,8

Storms that hit here

Wilma (2005). The National Hurricane Center's Wilma report lists a 91-knot (105 mph) gust at a Miramar station on October 24, 2005, and concludes parts of Broward likely had Category 2 conditions.⁹
Katrina (2005). Katrina made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near the Miami-Dade/Broward line on August 25, 2005, and an unofficial station in the city logged a 57-knot (66 mph) gust.¹⁰

What this means for a re-roof in Miramar

How old the houses are. The median home in Miramar was built in 1996; 58.4% of its 46,380 homes predate 2000 and 9.1% were built in 2010 or later. So most houses here went up before Florida’s first statewide building code took effect on March 1, 2002.^3,11,12,13

Pre-2002 wood-deck houses. When the old covering comes off, the deck gets re-nailed to current code and a secondary water barrier goes on; in the wind-borne debris region, insured homes of $300,000+ may also need roof-to-wall connections (capped at 15% of the re-roof cost).^11,12,13

Repair or replace. Replacing 25% or more of a roof section in 12 months generally means redoing the section to current code — unless that roof was built or replaced under the 2007 code or later.^12,13,14,15

Product approval. In the HVHZ every roofing component needs a current product approval — a Miami-Dade NOA or a Florida approval listed for HVHZ use. Ask for the numbers and look them up yourself.^14,16

Roof age and insurance. An insurer can’t refuse a policy just because the roof is under 15 years old. If it is 15 or older, you can get an inspection first; at least 5 years of remaining life means age alone isn’t grounds to refuse.¹⁷

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