Live in Burnt Store

Burnt Store is the city's western edge on Matlacha Pass. No public body draws it, and the name is the road's; this guide claims nothing about where residents think it ends. This guide is sixteen of the Gulf American Corporation's plat units as the City maps them, about 5,202 acres between Burnt Store Road and the North Spreader Waterway, from Embers Parkway to the city line at Burnt Store Marina, with a strip down the Spreader to Sirenia Vista Park. The marina community is outside the city; only its Unit UP01, 76 residents in 2020, is in.

The 2020 census counted 5,110 residents in 2,439 homes, and Cape Coral has grown about 22% since, so treat the count as a floor. More than half the ground is still unbuilt: 5,575 of 10,151 parcels were vacant lots on the City's layer.

This is the Northwest Cape's only salt water. The City puts 3,374 lots on saltwater canals, all on its SW-A system, which reaches Matlacha Pass and the Gulf through the Spreader, and 593 on fresh water. Nine bridges inside the line cross salt water at 5.6 to 10 feet of clearance; the three on Burnt Store Road are under 6 feet. Whether a given dock clears every bridge to open water was not traced, so check it for the lot.

The same water is the exposure. Every resident is in Lee County's evacuation zone A, the first ordered out, and 770 live in the City's Coastal High Hazard Area. 9,370 parcels, 92%, are in FEMA's zone AE on the maps of November 2022, with a base flood elevation of 8 feet at the reference point. Hurricane Ian, ashore on Cayo Costa across Pine Island Sound on 28 September 2022, reached 6 to 9 feet above ground in Pine Island and Cape Coral, the National Hurricane Center says; no public layer records how these streets fared. A homeowners policy does not cover flood, and repairs costing half a building's value bring it up to current flood rules, judged permit by permit since July 2025.

City water reaches 8% of the parcels. The 713 parcels in the North 2 area, in the south, have it; the rest are on wells and septic tanks in North 3 (4,819 parcels, due in 2028) and North 10 (4,505, no date). For North 3 west of Burnt Store Road the Cape Coral Breeze reported an estimate of $41,029 a property before the Council met on 28 September 2026; the result was not read here. North 2 cost $18,032 on a standard lot paid up front, and an unpaid balance can still be on a bill.

Every City address pays thirteen levies, 15.3806 mills for 2025. At ZIP 33993's typical value of $326,142, not a Burnt Store price, a homesteaded owner owes about $4,380 a year after the $25,000 homestead exemption on every levy and a second $25,000 on all but the school levies, a landlord $5,016, plus about $1,063 of City assessments for 2026-27 that no exemption reduces. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's rise at 3% a year and resets on a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. The arithmetic is on the Cape Coral page.