Fellsmere, Florida
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fellsmere census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32948. The Survey maps it on the Fellsmere quadrangle. 4,834 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1949 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Fellsmere
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 5 records
Marian Fell Librarylisted 1996
Fellsmere Public Schoollisted 1996
First Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 1996
Frank and Stella Heiser Houselisted 2017- Fellsmere Historic Districtlisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresFellsmere fell from 5,197 to 4,834 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,197 | |
| 2020 | 4,834 | -363 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1949 USGS Fellsmere quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1951 USGS Fellsmere quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
136 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Fellsmere between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,045 acres in total. 71 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Natural | 71 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | FITZROY (31) |
| 6 August 2008 | Natural | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | (IR) OUT OF GAS (0556) |
| 5 August 2008 | Natural | 13 acres | Florida Forest Service | NORTH LINE (05) |
| 4 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | 35 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 1993 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fellsmere in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | Flood | Fellsmere | $400,000 | Emergency management confirmed a total of ten buildings with water intrusion in Fellsmere and Vero Lake Estates. Also reports that all lanes of 101st Ave were closed at 85th St in Vero Lake Estates. There was a petroleum spill due to eight stalled vehicles. In addition, all lanes of 79th St were closed in Fellsmere and two vehicles were stalled in Fellsmere due to the flooding rain. |
| September 2017 | Flash Flood | Fellsmere | $50,000 | Excessive rainfall from Hurricane Irma produced flash flooding in Fellsmere. Indian River County Sheriffs and Fellsmere Police rescued 12 people from flood waters and transported them in a high-water vehicle to the nearby Fellsmere Elementary School evacuation shelter, which was also surrounded by high water and impassible. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Fellsmere | $10,000 | Flooding from heavy rains rendered some roads impassable and flooded two homes in the Fellsmere area. |
| November 2023 | Heavy Rain | Fellsmere | - | Weather underground site KFLFELLS9 measured 8.09 inches of rainfall. Emergency management reports most streets in Fellsmere have water covering them, up to a foot of standing water reported in some locations. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | Fellsmere Police Department reported nickel to quarter size hail. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | An Indian River County Emergency Management official observed quarter size hail in Fellsmere during a severe thunderstorm. Photos confirmed the hail size. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | A storm chaser reported nickel sized hail just east of Fellsmere during a strong thunderstorm. |
| February 2007 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookside | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Vero Lake Estates | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Roseland | 7.4 miles | 17 | |
| Cummings | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| Sebastian | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| Wabasso | 8.9 miles | 19 | |
| Orchid | 9.8 miles | 17 | |
| North Beach | 10.0 miles | 17 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Fellsmere | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2153534 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282414. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







