Water damage restoration in Edgewater, Miami

Water reaches Edgewater homes two ways: from flooded streets, as when NOAA logged flooding generally from NE 15th to NE 29th Street, east of Biscayne Boulevard, in November 2022, and, in its towers, from pipes and the units above; either way, tell building management or your landlord if you have one, then call us. (NOAA NCEI)

Water inside your Edgewater tower: who do I call first?

1. If one of your own fixtures is leaking, close its valve or the unit’s main valve when it is safe to, and never turn power on or off or use an electric tool or appliance while standing in water, as CDC warns; the checklist for power, gas and photos covers the rest of the first hours. (CDC)
2. Let the building manager or condo association know, and your landlord if you rent; who pays between the association and unit owners is set out in Florida’s condo rules for leaks between units.
3. Call us with the address and where the water comes from, a pipe or fixture inside the building or flood water from outside, like the king tide that left several inches of standing water on NE 18th Street in October 2025: we connect you with a local restoration crew that serves your address. (NOAA NCEI)
4. If the elevators are out, as flooding left them at one Edgewater condominium building in 2021, ask the crew how it will move equipment and debris, and where management wants it to load. (NOAA NCEI)

On November 5, 2021, NOAA recorded water coming in from outside: flooding in Edgewater caused “water to enter the first level of a condominium building on NE 30th Terrace” and stopped its elevators. (NOAA NCEI)

Which Edgewater streets flood, and how often?

The City of Miami says its Edgewater Neighborhood Flood Improvements project “will help alleviate localized flooding experienced by the community.” (City of Miami)

NOAA’s Storm Events Database records Edgewater floods along Biscayne Boulevard, on NE 18th Street and in the blocks east of the boulevard to the bayfront, among others: (NOAA NCEI)

In all, the database holds 6 Miami-Dade flood-related records for 2015–2025 that name Edgewater; of these, 3 mention high or king tides and 4 name neither Brickell nor Downtown Miami. (NOAA NCEI)

Our reading: the database counts only floods that someone reported, so its 6 records show where Edgewater floods better than how often, and the claims chart further down counts insurance claims, not floods. Among the records, the November 2022 span takes in NE 23rd Street, the first street in the City’s drainage project, and the October 2025 record on NE 18th Street shows that a king tide can put water on an Edgewater street without a storm. (NOAA NCEI; City of Miami)

By area, 42.5% of Edgewater as the City of Miami maps it is in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, the high-risk flood zone, including 7.0% in zone VE, the coastal zone with waves, on Miami-Dade County’s FEMA flood zone layer, mapped at the top of this page; to see your own building’s zone, enter its address in Miami-Dade County’s flood zone map. (Miami-Dade County; City of Miami)

When will the NE 23rd Street flood project be built, and what will it fix?

On June 12, 2024, CBS News Miami reported that flooding on NE 23rd Street near Biscayne Boulevard “is nothing new for those who live in the area.” (CBS News Miami)

Phase 1 of the City’s drainage project covers NE 23rd Street from NE 4th Avenue to Biscayne Bay, plus NE 4th Avenue from NE 22nd Terrace to NE 23rd Terrace. For the project as a whole, not Phase 1 alone, the City counts 816 properties that the work affects: 740 residential and 76 non-residential. (City of Miami)

The scope, from the same City page: new and upsized stormwater inlets and pipes, lining of the existing outfall pipes, and a stormwater pump station with injection wells. The City’s page estimated construction from September 2026 to early 2028 and says the timeline may change; check its project page for whether work has begun. (City of Miami)

Our reading: the pump station means the City does not count on gravity drains alone to empty these blocks into the bay, and until it runs, lobbies, garages and ground-floor homes along NE 23rd Street face the same street water as before. (City of Miami)

Can bay water come over the seawalls and up through the drains?

The City’s stormwater master plan update lists seawall overflow at high tide among the causes of flooding, and the City’s separate seawall project would raise or replace eight seawalls in Edgewater, with dredging, outfall pipe work, manhole structures and tidal valves, from April 2027 to April 2028 by its estimate, which it says may change. NBC 6 reported street flooding in Edgewater on October 13, 2022, after several inches of rain “with King Tide season underway.” (City of Miami; NBC 6 South Florida)

At Margaret Pace Park, on the Edgewater bayfront, the City’s 2023 master plan deals with water coming back up through the drains: it says the park’s outfalls “are to be fitted with backflow preventers to prevent backflow during extreme high tide conditions.” Our reading: at such tides the bay can push water back up the drains of the streets around Margaret Pace Park, even where no seawall is overtopped. (City of Miami)

Is the Edgewater bayfront at risk from storm surge?

Yes: during Hurricane Irma in 2017, the National Weather Service in Miami put surge inundation along the bay north of Downtown Miami at “generally around 2–3 feet,” and NOAA’s record of the storm notes similar inundation “up to the Edgewater area.” (National Weather Service Miami; NOAA NCEI)

In July 2025, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Miami-Dade County named Edgewater a new focus area of their Back Bay coastal storm study, which picks “high-frequency inundation areas for coastal storm surge” using the 10-year floodplain. (US Army Corps of Engineers)

The Corps’ June 2020 draft examined a floodwall at Edgewater but left it out of the tentatively selected plan. (US Army Corps of Engineers)

The City’s 2023 plan for Margaret Pace Park says surges and king tides “can impact the park and its surrounding areas,” and the City says the park’s first shoreline phase, with a raised berm for flood mitigation among its aims, is currently funded for “design only.” (City of Miami)

Our reading: until the Margaret Pace Park berm, the City’s eight-seawall project or another defense is built, the Edgewater bayfront relies on its current seawalls, drains and buildings. (US Army Corps of Engineers; City of Miami)

Which years and storms brought NFIP flood insurance claims in Edgewater?

In FEMA’s data, Edgewater has 181 NFIP flood insurance claims for losses since 1979; 106 of them closed with a net payment, together $4,564,477 as paid at the time, with no adjustment for inflation. (FEMA)

The chart below sorts them by year of loss, with the most in 2017 (31); where the records name a storm, the three with the most Edgewater claims are Hurricane Andrew in 1992 (30), Hurricane Irma in 2017 (29) and Hurricane Irene in 1999 (25). (FEMA)

These 181 are NFIP flood policy claims only, so private flood policies are left out too; Ready.gov states that “homeowner’s insurance policies do not cover flooding,” and the flood cleanup page sets out why flood insurance is separate from homeowners coverage. (FEMA; Ready.gov (FEMA))

Will I need mold remediation after flooding in Edgewater?

If street flood water, like the November 2022 flooding east of Biscayne Boulevard, gets into a ground-floor unit, lobby or garage, treat it as a hazard, not a mopping job: CDC warns that a flooded home may be contaminated with mold or sewage, and our flood cleanup page explains what has to be removed. (CDC; NOAA NCEI)

For water from a leak, EPA’s rule is that “the key to mold control is moisture control,” and its advice to renters, who live in an estimated 71.7% of Edgewater’s occupied homes, is to report all plumbing leaks and moisture problems immediately to the building owner, manager or superintendent. (US EPA; US Census Bureau)

If mold has already grown, porous materials such as ceiling tiles and carpet may have to be thrown away, EPA says; read when mold removal needs a Florida-licensed remediator and whether a test is worth paying for, and ask the crew for its license number before mold work starts. (US EPA)

Questions

Is Edgewater part of the City of Miami?

Yes. Edgewater is a neighborhood on the City of Miami’s own neighborhood map, on Biscayne Bay just north of Downtown Miami, and NOAA’s 2015 flood record names “the Omni, Edgewater and Midtown areas of the City of Miami,” so the causes and first steps on our water damage help in Miami page apply here too.

How do I check my Edgewater building’s flood zone?

Type the address into Miami-Dade County’s flood zone map, because the answer depends on where the building stands: by area, 42.5% of Edgewater is in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, the high-risk flood zone, including 7.0% in coastal zone VE, and the map at the top of this page shows where the zones fall.

Will insurance pay for water leak damage in an Edgewater condo?

That depends on the source of the water: flood water from the street or the bay is a flood policy matter, since Ready.gov says “homeowner’s insurance policies do not cover flooding,” and the 181 NFIP claims on this page are flood claims only; for a leak from a pipe, an AC drain or the unit above, check your homeowners, condo unit or renters policy, and see how the two kinds of cover differ.

Who pays when the condo above leaks into my Edgewater unit?

Report it to building management and the owner of the unit above, and take photos while the damage is still in place; who pays then depends on what was damaged and why, as the Florida condo rules on leaks from above explain.

Sources and method

1. NOAA NCEI: Storm Events Database: event narratives naming Edgewater (yearly detail files)
2. City of Miami: Edgewater Neighborhood Flood Improvements (project 40-B233805)
3. Miami-Dade County: FEMA Flood Zone (county GIS layer)
4. Miami-Dade County: Miami-Dade Flood Zone web app (look up an address)
5. City of Miami: Neighborhoods (City GIS layer)
6. CBS News Miami: Officials: 26 pumps running in Miami to curb significant flooding (12 Jun 2024)
7. City of Miami: Citywide Stormwater Master Plan workshop (7 Sep 2022)
8. NBC 6 South Florida: Stalled Cars, Street Flooding in Brickell, Edgewater Due to Heavy Rain (13 Oct 2022)
9. City of Miami: Margaret Pace Park Improvements Master Plan (Aug 2023)
10. City of Miami: Replacement of 8 Seawalls in Edgewater (project 40-B233810)
11. US Army Corps of Engineers: Miami-Dade Back Bay feasibility study public webinar, with Miami-Dade County (28 Jul 2025)
12. US Army Corps of Engineers: Miami-Dade Back Bay draft feasibility report release (Jun 2020)
13. National Weather Service Miami: Hurricane Irma, September 10, 2017 (event summary)
14. City of Miami: Climate Resilience Committee memo: Margaret Pace Park Shoreline Improvements Phase 1 (10 Nov 2025)
15. City of Miami: Margaret Pace Park, Phase 1
16. FEMA: OpenFEMA: FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims (v3)
17. Ready.gov (FEMA): Floods
18. US Census Bureau: American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, tables B25001, B25003, B25024 and B25034 (via Census Reporter)
19. CDC: Safety Guidelines: Reentering Your Flooded Home
20. US EPA: A Brief Guide to Mold, Moisture and Your Home

Edgewater on this page is the City of Miami’s neighborhood map area Edgewater. Its claims and housing figures cover the census block groups with at least half their land inside it (99.6% of its area). How the neighborhood figures were made. Last revised October 15, 2026.