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Malabar, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Malabar census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32950. The Survey maps it on the Melbourne East quadrangle. 2,949 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Malabar within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Malabar, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Malabar, surveyed 1949

Population over time

2 figures

Malabar grew from 2,757 to 2,949 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,757
20202,949+192 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Malabar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,352 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 22 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
Natural50
Equipment and vehicle use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism22
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceT-BONE (05)
4 August 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2001Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2015Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRAMBLEBROOK (05)
23 August 2006Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCABBAGE PALM (5)
22 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHENDERSON (5)
20 August 2012Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHIDE AWAY (05)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Malabar: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sumterville Lime Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brevard County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malabar in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1998Flash FloodMalabar$30,000Three homes received minor flood damage as four to six inches of rain fell in the Malabar area.
May 2025HailMalabar-Quarter size hail near Grandeur St and Emerson Dr SE in Palm Bay.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMalabar-Reports of large tree branch from an oak tree falling on roof of a home on Grandeur St in Palm Bay. Time estimated by radar.
January 1998HailMalabar-Golf ball size hail fell in Malabar.
March 2003HailMalabar-no account filed
April 2003HailMalabar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brevard County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Palm Bay2.5 miles13
Valkaria3.0 miles16
Melbourne Shores4.1 miles16
Grant-Valkaria4.4 miles16
Melbourne Beach4.5 miles13
Floridana Beach5.4 miles17
Grant5.6 miles16
Indialantic5.9 miles13

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 MalabarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1022772The 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 286324. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.