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Florida public-health and local resources

A curated list for Audubon Park residents and Florida families — local Orlando, Orange County, state of Florida, and national agencies, plus a handful of independent tools for tracking outbreaks, air quality, and the things that come up at neighborhood scale. Updated as resources change.

§ 01 — Local: Orlando & Orange CountyIf something happens in the neighborhood

For immediate emergencies dial 911. For everything else, these are the local agencies and services Audubon Park residents tend to need. Orange County's communicable-disease reporting flows up into the state and national surveillance systems below — most of what reaches you locally starts here.

§ 02 — State of FloridaThe state-level baseline

State-level resources matter for any decision that crosses county lines — hurricane season, prescribed-burn season, summer ozone, red-tide events on either coast. The FDOH publishes weekly respiratory-virus updates statewide; FDACS Florida Forest Service publishes daily prescribed-burn maps.

§ 03 — Tracking: Outbreaks & Air QualityThe two things worth checking together

The two data feeds most worth watching during fall and winter are respiratory-illness surveillance and air quality. Florida's ozone runs hot through summer and fall; viral respiratory illness peaks late fall through early spring. They occasionally overlap — and when they do, the biology compounds. Independent tools that publish the relevant data in readable form:

  • Pandemic Watch Current outbreak surveillance for influenza, RSV, COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses, aggregated from CDC and state health-department feeds. Florida-state breakdowns and weekly updates.
  • Smog Report Real-time AQI from EPA AirNow regulatory monitors. Useful during Florida's summer ozone season, Saharan Air Layer dust events in June and July, and prescribed-burn days. Free iOS app + web.
  • Florida air quality guide A Florida-specific explainer covering ozone, Saharan dust, sugar-cane burns, prescribed burns, red-tide aerosols, and hurricane-related CO risk. Worth reading once.
  • AQI and outbreaks (explainer) Why air quality and respiratory illness compound each other when they overlap, and how to read the two data feeds together for joint household decisions.
  • EPA AirNow The U.S. EPA's canonical air-quality data — the upstream source for Smog Report and every other consumer air-quality app.
Why this list pairs air quality with respiratory illness: they share a sensitive-groups list, share most protective behaviors (well-fitted N95, HEPA filtration, minimizing time in shared indoor air), and biologically compound — PM2.5 exposure disrupts mucociliary clearance and inflames the airway epithelium that respiratory viruses are trying to colonize. During the few weeks a year both signals are elevated, the two-axis decision is meaningfully harder than either input alone.

§ 04 — NationalWhere the state and county feeds originate

State and county data ultimately flows into the federal surveillance systems below. They're worth bookmarking separately — sometimes a national-level dashboard surfaces a regional pattern faster than the state version does, particularly for new or low-incidence diseases.

§ 05 — About this listWhat we did and didn't include

This page is curated — not exhaustive. The choice criteria: agencies and tools that an Audubon Park resident is likely to actually need, with priority to ones that publish clean, current data and don't require an account. We deliberately left out paid services, signup-walled trackers, and anything that monetizes the user's location.

Independent tools (Pandemic Watch, Smog Report, Sunshine State Reader) appear above alongside government resources because they fill real gaps in the public data — readable Florida-state breakdowns, AirNow on the home screen, the SSYRA program in a format kids can use. They aren't affiliated with AudubonParkFL.com.

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