Pahokee, Florida
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Belle Glade-Pahokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33476. It lies near Padgett Island. The Survey maps it on the Pahokee quadrangle. 5,524 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1956 to 1987The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Pahokee
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 1 record
Pahokee High Schoollisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresPahokee fell from 5,649 to 5,524 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 | 5,649 | |
| 2020 | 5,524 | -125 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Pahokee quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
29 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Pahokee between 1992 and 2012, burning about 41 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | ROADSIDE ( 50 ) |
| 5 June 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 842 |
| 24 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | GLADES FIRE |
| 27 May 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | POWER PLANT FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pahokee in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 6 tornado, 3 funnel cloud, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 9 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Lightning | Pahokee | 9 hurt | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pahokee | $10,000 | Two large trees fell on a home in Pahokee. |
| April 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Pahokee | $1,000 | A pilot reported a tornado touching down briefly and damaging a utility pole. |
| March 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Pahokee | - | A trained spotter reported a tornado approximately 3 miles southeast of Pahokee. The tornado was rain-wrapped and nearly stationary. The tornado remained over an open field with no damage reported. |
| August 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Pahokee | - | Video obtained of a tornado in an open field just south of Pahokee. The tornado was believed to have crossed SR 715 and Bacom Point with no damage reported. |
| September 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Pahokee | - | A pilot reported a funnel cloud 3 miles southeast of Pahokee. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pahokee | - | Law enforcement officials reported a downed palm tree in Pahokee. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Pahokee | - | A severe thunderstorm passed over Pahokee producing nickel size hail. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pahokee | - | Pahokee police reported downed power lines along Hoover Dike west of Pahokee on the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee. A South Florida Water Management observation platform recorded a wind gust to 44 knots...51 mph...at 345 PM EST. |
| August 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Pahokee | - | A weak tornado briefly touched down but did no known damage. |
| July 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Pahokee | - | A funnel cloud was sighted. |
| August 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Pahokee | - | Funnel cloud sighted near SR-715. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Pahokee | - | observed over sugar cane field east of highway 715. |
| July 1997 | Waterspout | Pahokee | - | waterspout observed about 10 nm n of pahokee. |
| August 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Pahokee | - | A tornado touched down briefly in a sugar cane field causing no damage. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Pahokee | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Padgett Island | 0.7 miles | 10 | |
| Fremd Village | 1.2 miles | 10 | |
| Pelican Lake | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Canal Point | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Bryant | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Cardwell | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Runyon | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Sand Cut | 7.0 miles | 10 |
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 Pahokee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2152074 | 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 288376. 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.






