Lehigh Acres has an unusual history for a Southwest Florida community: developer Lee Ratner platted the entire grid of streets and quarter-acre lots back in the 1950s as part of a large-scale land-sale development, decades before most of those lots were actually built on. The result is a community where the street grid is older than most of the housing stock sitting on it — a large share of Lehigh Acres homes were actually constructed from the 1990s through the 2010s, well after the original platting, as the area filled in steadily over time.
That means the age and construction quality of homes in Lehigh Acres varies more block to block than in a neighborhood that was built out in one continuous phase. We see everything from older 1990s single-pane aluminum-window homes that have never been upgraded, to newer 2010s construction that may already have some level of impact protection but is missing it on an addition, a lanai enclosure, or a secondary structure.
Lehigh Acres sits further inland than the coastal Lee County communities, which means less direct salt-air corrosion exposure on window and door hardware than a canal-front or beachfront property faces — but it doesn't reduce the wind-load requirement. Lehigh Acres homes fall within the same windborne-debris region under the Florida Building Code as the rest of Lee County, and inland location doesn't lower the required design pressure calculation for a given home's height and exposure; sustained hurricane-force wind reaches well inland across this part of the state.
The area's larger quarter-acre and half-acre lots also mean many Lehigh Acres homes have more openings per structure than a tighter urban lot — more windows spread across a bigger single-story footprint — which is worth planning for when budgeting and phasing a whole-home impact upgrade. We're happy to walk a Lehigh Acres property and give you a phased plan if doing every opening at once isn't realistic right now.
Whether your home is an original 1990s build that's never been touched or a newer construction needing just the lanai and garage door brought up to standard, call us for a free quote anywhere in Lehigh Acres.
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