FORT LAUDERDALE FLOOD BARRIERS. FOR THE DAY IT RAINS 25 INCHES.
Fort Lauderdale flood barriers, backflow prevention, and vent protection for Broward County homes. Custom aluminum, fabricated in Florida, rated to hold back up to 10 feet of water.
Broward has already seen what a day without a hurricane can do. These are Fort Lauderdale flood barriers engineered for that reality: measured to your openings, sealed under pressure, and reusable every season.
Hurricane Season 2026 is active now, and rain flooding does not wait for it.
Call 727-344-9962April 12, 2023. No hurricane. No warning.
On a Wednesday in April, Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport recorded 25.91 inches of rain in about twelve hours, with rates over three inches an hour at the peak. There was no hurricane and no tropical storm. It was a weather front and a low pressure system, and it put water through thousands of homes and closed the airport for two days.
That is the part Broward homeowners understand that the rest of the country does not. You can track a hurricane for five days. You cannot track a Wednesday. Fort Lauderdale sits low, drains slow, and sits on a canal system that backs up when it is already full, which means the water has nowhere to go but into the neighborhoods.
Our answer is engineered rather than improvised: aerospace-grade aluminum barriers measured to every opening on your home, rated to hold back up to 10 feet of water, sealed with dual-phase EPDM gaskets that tighten under pressure instead of leaking. Deploy them in minutes, store them flat, use them every season.
April 12, 2023. In about twelve hours.
No hurricane, no tropical storm. A stalled front dropped it on Fort Lauderdale, rates topped three inches an hour, water went through thousands of homes and the airport closed for two days. You cannot track a Wednesday.
The Venice of America is a flood map.
Fort Lauderdale is threaded with canals, and homeowners own the seawalls. The city now requires them raised to 4 feet by 2035 and 5 by 2050, at $500 to $1,000 a linear foot. The water side is getting managed. The gap between the seawall and your front door is yours.
Broward floods differently depending on where you stand.
Las Olas Isles and Rio Vista
Finger islands on the canal grid, some of the most valuable and lowest-lying streets in the city. King tides come over and through aging seawalls on a calendar, not a forecast.
Victoria Park and Colee Hammock
Older inland neighborhoods that drain slow. April 2023 put water in living rooms here without a drop of surge.
Edgewood and River Oaks
Near the airport, the hardest-hit blocks of the 2023 flood. Some homes took water twice in two years. This is rain flooding, and it does not care about flood-zone maps.
Hollywood and Dania Beach
Low coastal grid with tidal streets of their own. The same drainage that struggles in Fort Lauderdale struggles here a tide cycle later.
Pompano Beach and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
Barrier-strip communities where the ocean is on one side and the Intracoastal on the other, and heavy rain has nowhere to go but the street.
Plantation, Davie and West Broward
No coastline required. When a stalled storm sits over the county, the western drainage basins fill and inland streets hold water for days.
Every way water enters, closed.
A door barrier on a home with an open garage and an unprotected backflow line is not flood protection, it is a partial answer. In a 2023-scale rain event, water finds every opening at once.
Flood Barriers for Home
Custom aluminum panels for entry doors, sliders, and walkouts. The core of the system.
Garage Door Barriers
The widest opening on most homes and the first one water finds. Sealed edge to edge.
Storm Surge Protection
Engineered for coastal water under pressure, not just standing rain.
Backflow Prevention
When the street system surcharges, water comes up through the drains. This stops it.
Flood Vent Covers
Crawl space and foundation vents sealed so water cannot get underneath.
Generator Protection
Power that survives the storm. A flooded generator is a house in the dark.
Serving Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Dania Beach, Pompano Beach, Wilton Manors, Oakland Park, Plantation, Davie, Weston, Coral Springs and greater Broward County.
From assessment to storm-ready in five steps.
Free assessment
We walk your property, identify every opening water can enter, and give you a straight answer on what needs protection.
Exact measurement
Every opening measured to the sixteenth. Nothing off a shelf, nothing close enough.
Fabricated in St. Pete
Built at our Florida facility from aerospace-grade aluminum. No overseas lead times.
Install and walkthrough
We install, pressure test the seals, and walk you through deployment until you can do it yourself.
Storm-ready for good
Store them flat, deploy in minutes, reuse every season. Buy once.
Built heavier, sealed tighter, made in Florida.
2.5X stronger. Better sealed.
Aerospace-grade aluminum tested to more than 40,000 PSI, roughly two and a half times the strength of the extruded aluminum most barriers use. Dual-phase EPDM gaskets compress under water pressure instead of loosening.
Founded by Floridians who flooded.
Dam It Defense was started in St. Petersburg by Floridians whose own homes took on water. Every barrier is fabricated in Florida, for Florida, by people who have stood in it.
Aerospace-grade aluminum, reinforced channel depth, solid cast stainless steel hardware, and dual-phase EPDM gaskets. Fort Lauderdale flood barriers built to a higher standard.
The math Broward learned in a single day.
One inch is $25,000
FEMA puts the damage from a single inch of floodwater at roughly $25,000. April 2023 did not deal in inches, and the next one will not either.
Rain floods without a warning
Surge gives you days of forecast. A stalled front gives you an afternoon. Protection has to already be in the garage, not on order.
Most of it was not a flood zone
A large share of Florida flood claims come from outside designated high-risk areas. Maps describe history. Rain does not read them.
Insurance keeps tightening
Florida carriers have been narrowing coverage and raising deductibles for years. Documented mitigation is one of the few things still in a homeowner’s control.
Fort Lauderdale flood barriers: common questions.
Do you install flood barriers in Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood?
Yes, throughout Broward County: Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Dania Beach, Pompano Beach, Wilton Manors, Oakland Park, Plantation, Davie, Weston, Coral Springs and Deerfield Beach.
Do flood barriers work for rain flooding, not just storm surge?
Yes, and in Broward that is often the more common threat. The April 2023 event was pure rainfall with no tropical system attached. A sealed barrier holds standing water the same way it holds surge, and backflow prevention matters even more when the drainage system surcharges.
How much do flood barriers cost in Fort Lauderdale?
It depends on how many openings your home has and how wide they are. A single entry door is a different number than a home with a two-car garage, three sliders and a walkout. The assessment is free and you get an exact figure, not a range.
Are flood barriers better than sandbags?
Sandbags leak by design, they are single use, and by the time you are filling them the rain has already started. An engineered barrier seals under compression, holds up to 10 feet of water, and deploys in minutes.
I have a seawall. Do I still need flood barriers?
The seawall handles the canal side, and Fort Lauderdale is requiring them raised over the coming years. It does nothing about rain, and April 2023 was entirely rain. Barriers protect the openings of the house itself, whichever direction the water comes from.
My home is not in a high-risk flood zone. Do I need this?
Much of what flooded in April 2023 was not in a high-risk zone. Flood maps describe historic risk, not current rainfall. If water has ever reached your street, it can reach your door.
Serving Broward County and South Florida
Fort Lauderdale
Las Olas Isles
Rio Vista
Victoria Park
Coral Ridge
Harbor Beach
Sailboat Bend
Colee Hammock
Coastal Broward
Hollywood
Dania Beach
Pompano Beach
Lauderdale By The Sea
Deerfield Beach
Hallandale Beach
Wilton Manors
West Broward
Plantation
Davie
Weston
Coral Springs
Sunrise
Oakland Park
Tamarac
BROWARD ALREADY KNOWS WHAT ONE DAY CAN DO. GET AHEAD OF THE NEXT ONE.
Schedule your free flood assessment. We walk every opening on your Fort Lauderdale or Hollywood property, measure exactly what you need, and build a complete flood protection system at our Florida facility.
Dam It Defense · 695 28th Street South, Saint Petersburg, FL · Serving Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, and South Florida
FORT LAUDERDALE FLOOD BARRIERS. FOR THE DAY IT RAINS 25 INCHES.
Fort Lauderdale flood barriers, backflow prevention, and vent protection for Broward County homes. Custom aluminum, fabricated in Florida, rated to hold back up to 10 feet of water.
Broward has already seen what a day without a hurricane can do. These are Fort Lauderdale flood barriers engineered for that reality: measured to your openings, sealed under pressure, and reusable every season.
Hurricane Season 2026 is active now, and rain flooding does not wait for it.
Call 727-344-9962April 12, 2023. No hurricane. No warning.
On a Wednesday in April, Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport recorded 25.91 inches of rain in about twelve hours, with rates over three inches an hour at the peak. There was no hurricane and no tropical storm. It was a weather front and a low pressure system, and it put water through thousands of homes and closed the airport for two days.
That is the part Broward homeowners understand that the rest of the country does not. You can track a hurricane for five days. You cannot track a Wednesday. Fort Lauderdale sits low, drains slow, and sits on a canal system that backs up when it is already full, which means the water has nowhere to go but into the neighborhoods.
Our answer is engineered rather than improvised: aerospace-grade aluminum barriers measured to every opening on your home, rated to hold back up to 10 feet of water, sealed with dual-phase EPDM gaskets that tighten under pressure instead of leaking. Deploy them in minutes, store them flat, use them every season.
April 12, 2023. In about twelve hours.
No hurricane, no tropical storm. A stalled front dropped it on Fort Lauderdale, rates topped three inches an hour, water went through thousands of homes and the airport closed for two days. You cannot track a Wednesday.
The Venice of America is a flood map.
Fort Lauderdale is threaded with canals, and homeowners own the seawalls. The city now requires them raised to 4 feet by 2035 and 5 by 2050, at $500 to $1,000 a linear foot. The water side is getting managed. The gap between the seawall and your front door is yours.
Broward floods differently depending on where you stand.
Las Olas Isles and Rio Vista
Finger islands on the canal grid, some of the most valuable and lowest-lying streets in the city. King tides come over and through aging seawalls on a calendar, not a forecast.
Victoria Park and Colee Hammock
Older inland neighborhoods that drain slow. April 2023 put water in living rooms here without a drop of surge.
Edgewood and River Oaks
Near the airport, the hardest-hit blocks of the 2023 flood. Some homes took water twice in two years. This is rain flooding, and it does not care about flood-zone maps.
Hollywood and Dania Beach
Low coastal grid with tidal streets of their own. The same drainage that struggles in Fort Lauderdale struggles here a tide cycle later.
Pompano Beach and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
Barrier-strip communities where the ocean is on one side and the Intracoastal on the other, and heavy rain has nowhere to go but the street.
Plantation, Davie and West Broward
No coastline required. When a stalled storm sits over the county, the western drainage basins fill and inland streets hold water for days.
Every way water enters, closed.
A door barrier on a home with an open garage and an unprotected backflow line is not flood protection, it is a partial answer. In a 2023-scale rain event, water finds every opening at once.
Flood Barriers for Home
Custom aluminum panels for entry doors, sliders, and walkouts. The core of the system.
Garage Door Barriers
The widest opening on most homes and the first one water finds. Sealed edge to edge.
Storm Surge Protection
Engineered for coastal water under pressure, not just standing rain.
Backflow Prevention
When the street system surcharges, water comes up through the drains. This stops it.
Flood Vent Covers
Crawl space and foundation vents sealed so water cannot get underneath.
Generator Protection
Power that survives the storm. A flooded generator is a house in the dark.
Serving Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Dania Beach, Pompano Beach, Wilton Manors, Oakland Park, Plantation, Davie, Weston, Coral Springs and greater Broward County.
From assessment to storm-ready in five steps.
Free assessment
We walk your property, identify every opening water can enter, and give you a straight answer on what needs protection.
Exact measurement
Every opening measured to the sixteenth. Nothing off a shelf, nothing close enough.
Fabricated in St. Pete
Built at our Florida facility from aerospace-grade aluminum. No overseas lead times.
Install and walkthrough
We install, pressure test the seals, and walk you through deployment until you can do it yourself.
Storm-ready for good
Store them flat, deploy in minutes, reuse every season. Buy once.
Built heavier, sealed tighter, made in Florida.
2.5X stronger. Better sealed.
Aerospace-grade aluminum tested to more than 40,000 PSI, roughly two and a half times the strength of the extruded aluminum most barriers use. Dual-phase EPDM gaskets compress under water pressure instead of loosening.
Founded by Floridians who flooded.
Dam It Defense was started in St. Petersburg by Floridians whose own homes took on water. Every barrier is fabricated in Florida, for Florida, by people who have stood in it.
Aerospace-grade aluminum, reinforced channel depth, solid cast stainless steel hardware, and dual-phase EPDM gaskets. Fort Lauderdale flood barriers built to a higher standard.
The math Broward learned in a single day.
One inch is $25,000
FEMA puts the damage from a single inch of floodwater at roughly $25,000. April 2023 did not deal in inches, and the next one will not either.
Rain floods without a warning
Surge gives you days of forecast. A stalled front gives you an afternoon. Protection has to already be in the garage, not on order.
Most of it was not a flood zone
A large share of Florida flood claims come from outside designated high-risk areas. Maps describe history. Rain does not read them.
Insurance keeps tightening
Florida carriers have been narrowing coverage and raising deductibles for years. Documented mitigation is one of the few things still in a homeowner’s control.
Fort Lauderdale flood barriers: common questions.
Do you install flood barriers in Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood?
Yes, throughout Broward County: Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Dania Beach, Pompano Beach, Wilton Manors, Oakland Park, Plantation, Davie, Weston, Coral Springs and Deerfield Beach.
Do flood barriers work for rain flooding, not just storm surge?
Yes, and in Broward that is often the more common threat. The April 2023 event was pure rainfall with no tropical system attached. A sealed barrier holds standing water the same way it holds surge, and backflow prevention matters even more when the drainage system surcharges.
How much do flood barriers cost in Fort Lauderdale?
It depends on how many openings your home has and how wide they are. A single entry door is a different number than a home with a two-car garage, three sliders and a walkout. The assessment is free and you get an exact figure, not a range.
Are flood barriers better than sandbags?
Sandbags leak by design, they are single use, and by the time you are filling them the rain has already started. An engineered barrier seals under compression, holds up to 10 feet of water, and deploys in minutes.
I have a seawall. Do I still need flood barriers?
The seawall handles the canal side, and Fort Lauderdale is requiring them raised over the coming years. It does nothing about rain, and April 2023 was entirely rain. Barriers protect the openings of the house itself, whichever direction the water comes from.
My home is not in a high-risk flood zone. Do I need this?
Much of what flooded in April 2023 was not in a high-risk zone. Flood maps describe historic risk, not current rainfall. If water has ever reached your street, it can reach your door.
Serving Broward County and South Florida
Fort Lauderdale
Las Olas Isles
Rio Vista
Victoria Park
Coral Ridge
Harbor Beach
Sailboat Bend
Colee Hammock
Coastal Broward
Hollywood
Dania Beach
Pompano Beach
Lauderdale By The Sea
Deerfield Beach
Hallandale Beach
Wilton Manors
West Broward
Plantation
Davie
Weston
Coral Springs
Sunrise
Oakland Park
Tamarac
BROWARD ALREADY KNOWS WHAT ONE DAY CAN DO. GET AHEAD OF THE NEXT ONE.
Schedule your free flood assessment. We walk every opening on your Fort Lauderdale or Hollywood property, measure exactly what you need, and build a complete flood protection system at our Florida facility.
Dam It Defense · 695 28th Street South, Saint Petersburg, FL · Serving Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, and South Florida