Related coverage: Homeowners Insurance
If you own a home anywhere in South Florida, hurricane season is the single biggest factor driving the cost of your homeowners insurance. From June through November, carriers reassess risk, reinsurance costs climb, and many companies tighten what they will and will not write in coastal zip codes. Understanding how that cycle works can help you keep your premium under control without giving up the protection your family needs.
At B & B Insurance Agency in Lantana, we shop multiple carriers for Palm Beach County homeowners every day, and we see firsthand how small changes to a roof, an opening protection package, or even a deductible election can move a premium by hundreds of dollars a year.
Why Florida premiums spike during hurricane season
Insurance companies set rates based on probable loss. In Florida, the largest single driver of probable loss is wind damage from named storms. After an active season, reinsurance — the insurance that your insurance company buys — gets more expensive, and those costs get passed down to homeowners at renewal.
Litigation trends, building costs, and the age of the roof on your home all stack on top of that base wind risk. A 20-year-old roof in a 33462 zip code will be priced very differently from a brand-new roof three miles inland.
What you can do to lower your premium
- Replace an aging roof. Most Florida carriers give meaningful credits for roofs less than 10 years old.
- Install hurricane shutters or impact-rated windows and doors, then file a wind mitigation inspection.
- Raise your hurricane deductible from 2% to 5% if you have the savings to absorb it.
- Bundle your home and auto with the same carrier when it makes sense.
- Review your dwelling coverage every year — overinsuring a home is just as common as underinsuring one.
The wind mitigation inspection is the single best move
A licensed inspector will document the features that protect your home from wind: roof shape, roof deck attachment, roof-to-wall connections, secondary water resistance, and opening protection. Each one of those features can trigger a credit on your policy. A current wind mitigation form is how those credits get applied, and the amount varies by carrier and home.
When to shop your policy
Get a fresh comparison roughly 45 days before your renewal date. That gives us time to quote multiple carriers, send you the differences side by side, and bind a new policy without a lapse. As an independent agency, we are not tied to one company — we work for you.
Talk to a Lantana independent agent
Independent agents who actually shop the market. B & B Insurance Agency has served South Florida from our Lantana office since 1998. We'll find the carrier that fits your life — not the other way around. Talk to an agent.
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