The My Safe Florida Home Progaram is administered through Florida's Department of Financial Services.  This is a fantastic way to learn more about how ready your home is for a hurricane.  And it's free!  The State will pay for the inspection evaluation and send you a report.  Here is what My Safe Florida Home web site (http://www.mysafefloridahome.com) has to say about this program:

To help Floridians identify how they can strengthen their homes against hurricanes and to reduce hurricane damage exposure in our state, the Florida Comprehensive Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program is offering free home inspections by qualified hurricane mitigation inspectors to eligible homeowners.  

   The basic elements of what the program is trying to do are: 

Improve the strength of your roof deck attachment. For example, if your roof consists of shingles nailed to plywood sheets, the inspection may reveal that the plywood sheets are not adequately nailed to your roof trusses, and that additional nails and/or longer nails need to be added to prevent the plywood from being blown off in a hurricane.

Creat a secondary water barrier to prevent water intrusion. For example, using strips of “peel and stick-on” material that cover the joints between the plywood sheets on your roof to reduce leakage until repairs can be made if a hurricane blows off your roof shingles.

Improve the survivability of your roof covering. For example, upgrading to thicker and stronger hurricane-resistant roof shingles, attached with properly sized and properly applied roofing nails, to reduce the susceptibility of your roof shingles blowing off in a hurricane.

Brace gable-ends in your roof framing. This is usually done inside your attic to decrease chances that your roof will collapse under hurricane wind loads.

Reinforce roof-to-wall connections. For example, installing metal tie-down straps that attach roof rafters to wall studs to decrease chances that all or a portion of your roof will simply lift your house during a hurricane.

Upgrade exterior wall opening protections. For example, installing hurricane-rated window shutters.

Upgrade exterior doors. For example, replacing a standard garage door with a hurricane-rated garage door.