Wabasso, Florida
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vero Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32967. It stands on Wabasso Island. The Survey maps it on the Vero Beach quadrangle. 1,627 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 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.


Population over time
3 figuresWabasso grew from 918 to 1,627 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 918 | |
| 2010 | 609 | -309 (-34%) |
| 2020 | 1,627 | +1,018 (+167%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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 Vero Beach quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 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
162 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Wabasso between 1992 and 2020, burning about 970 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 9 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 | 38 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 37 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | (IR) GOLF COURSE (0685) |
| 21 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 140 |
| 21 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | (IR) 58TH AVE FIRE (1461) |
| 18 September 1996 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | (IR) BENT PINE (694) |
| 13 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | IR-BARREL FIRE-1176 |
| 9 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wabasso: 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Fischer & Sons, Inc. - San Sebastian Spgs-E Mine | Sand | Unknown | Sand | |
| Henry Fischer & Sons,Inc. - San Sebastian Spgs-W Mine | Sand | Unknown | Sand | |
| Henry Fischer & Sons,Inc. - Vickers Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Henry Fischer and Son Sand Co. -Yellow Sand Pit | Sand | Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wabasso in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2003 | Lightning | Wabasso | 1 killed, 4 hurt | A 49 year old woman was struck and killed by lightning while standing on a soccer field. About 20 other people were knocked to the ground by the strike. Four other people were transported to a local hospital. This was the first lightning ground stroke of the day in the area as showers began moving inland from the Atlantic. |
| December 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Wabasso | 1 hurt, $110,000 | An F-1 tornado dropped down in Wabasso about 1/4 mile south of SR 510 and 1.2 miles west of US Highway 1. The tornado moved east north east damaging trees in a citrus grove and overturning a large tractor trailer bed. It moved through a cluster of homes west of US Highway 1 where it destroyed an older wood house and a mobile home. It damaged seven other homes and an three vehicles. One person was hospitalized with heart problems due to the tornado. |
| June 2008 | Lightning | Wabasso | $212,000 | Lightning ignited a fire that destroyed at a Marine Learning Center in Wabasso. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabasso | $25,000 | Severe thunderstorms blew down large tree limbs and broke windows out of a house near Ft. Drum. Four houses, two of which were under construction, suffered roof or window damage in the Windsor Subdivision near Wabasso. A nursery and large tent were also damaged in the thunderstorm near Wabasso. |
| October 2024 | Flash Flood | Wabasso | - | The rainbands of Hurricane Milton produced very heavy rainfall rates over a 3-hour period, between 1400EST and 1700EST that resulted in substantial flooding in portions of Indian River County. Event rainfall totals varied from 2 to 4 inches in the western part of the county, to as much as 10 to 12 inches in the eastern part of the county. Numerous roads were made impassable due to standing water issues, up to 3 feet in some areas, and a few homes had minor water intrusion, particularly in the Vero Beach South area. A daily record rainfall was set at the Vero Beach Airport on Oct 9 where 7.71 inches of rain was recorded. Damage to property and county infrastructure was minimal. |
| August 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Wabasso | - | Law enforcement officers reported a funnel cloud just west of Wabasso. |
| March 1996 | Hail | Wabasso | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orchid | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Winter Beach | 2.2 miles | 19 | |
| Wabasso Beach | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| North Beach | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Indian River Shores | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Cummings | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Vero Lake Estates | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Sebastian | 5.0 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 Wabasso | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2572080 | 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 292800. 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.







