While storm surge from Hurricane Helene was 7-9 feet in Florida, Milton's flooding could be as high at 15 feet, Howden Re reports. (Credit: Graphics by Justin Roth, associate director of Catastrophe Analytics R&D at Howden Re.) While storm surge from Hurricane Helene was 7-9 feet in Florida, Milton's flooding could be as high at 15 feet, Howden Re reports. (Credit: Graphics by Justin Roth, associate director of Catastrophe Analytics R&D at Howden Re.)

As the latest Atlantic hurricane barrels toward Florida's Gulf Coast with record-high wind speeds, weather forecasters and risk modelers have assembled an array of predictions about the storm's potential impact.

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