Hurricane Zeta made landfall as a Category 2 storm Wednesday evening near Cocodrie, La. (Terrebonne Parish, 70344).
From there, the system briskly moved over New Orleans and then into Mississippi, Georgia and the Carolinas, lashing impacted areas with heavy rain and damaging winds exceeding 135 mph. As a result, there have been widespread reports of roof damage (stripped shingles), downed trees/utility lines and major power outages (more than 2.6 million residents affected across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia and Georgia).
It should be noted that while flooding rain and dangerous surge has been experienced, it appears that high winds have been the primary source of damage from the storm.
As the 27th storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Zeta was the fifth named storm to make landfall in Louisiana as well as the sixth hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. this year.
Approximate locations sustaining possible structural damage:
Alabama
- Citronelle (Mobile County, 36522)
- Clark County (36419, 36436, 36446, 36451, 36482, 36501, 36515, 36524, 36540, 36545, 36570, 36586, 36727, 36762, 36784)
*County-wide structural damage - Dauphin Island (Mobile County, 36528)
- Lincoln (Talladega County, 35096)
- Prattville (Autauga/Elmore counties, 36066, 36067, 36068)
Georgia
- Atlanta (Fulton County, 30305, 30318)
*Reported impacted ZIP codes only - Acworth (Cherokee County, 30101, 30102)
- Buford (Gwinnett County, 30515, 30518, 30519)
- Hoschton (Jackson County, 30548)
Louisiana
- Chalmette (St. Bernard Parish, 70043, 70044)
- Chauvin (Terrebonne Parish, 70344)
- Cocodrie (Terrebonne Parish, 70344)
- Cut Off (Lafourche Parish, 70345)
- Galliano (Lafourche Parish, 70354)
- Golden Meadow (Lafourche Parish, 70357)
- Grand Isle (Jefferson Parish, 70358)
- Gretna (Jefferson Parish, 70053, 70054, 70056)
- Lafitte (Jefferson Parish, 70067)
- Leeville (Lafourche Parish, 70357)
- Marrero (Jefferson Parish, 70072, 70073)
- New Orleans (Orleans Parish, 70113, 70115, 70118, 70119, 70122, 70126)
*Reported impacted ZIP codes only - Phoenix (Plaquemines Parish, 70040)
- St. Bernard Parish (70032, 70043, 70044, 70075, 70085, 70092)
*Hardest hit
Mississippi
- Bay St. Louis (Hancock County, 39520, 39521, 39522)
- Beaumont (Perry County, 39423)
- Biloxi (Harrison County, 39530, 39531, 39532, 39533, 39534, 39535)
- Brooklyn (Forrest County, 39425)
- D’Iberville (Harrison County, 39540)
- Janice (Perry County, 39425)
- Lakeshore (Hancock County, 39558)
- Lucedale (George County, 39452)
- New Augusta (Perry County, 39462)
- Rawls Springs (Forrest County, 39402)
- Waveland (Hancock County, 39520, 39576)
North Carolina
- Asheville (Buncombe County, 28801, 28802, 28803, 28804, 28805, 28806, 28810, 28813, 28814, 28815)
South Carolina
- Greenville (Greenville County, 29601, 29602, 29603, 29604, 29605, 29606, 29607, 29608, 29609, 29610, 29611, 29612, 29613, 29614, 29615, 29616, 29617)
- Landrum (Spartanburg County, 29356)
Media Coverage
The Weather Channel:
Hurricane Zeta Recap
Zeta Knocks Out Power to 2.6 Million and Kills 3 People as It Races Across the South
Hurricane Zeta Rapidly Strengthens Into Category 2 as it Nears Landfall in Louisiana, Mississippi
CNN: Tropical Storm Zeta makes its way toward the US coast after slamming into Mexico as a hurricane
Declaration Activity
FEMA
10/28/20
Mississippi
Mississippi Hurricane Zeta (EM-3550)
Associated County ZIP Code List
10/27/20
Louisiana
Louisiana Tropical Storm Zeta (EM-3549)
Associated Parish ZIP Code List (Statewide)
Governor
10/28/20
Mississippi
Mississippi governor signs emergency declaration ahead of Zeta (Media article available only)
10/27/20
Alabama
State of Emergency: Tropical Storm Zeta
Associated County ZIP Code List (Statewide)
10/26/20
Louisiana
Gov. Edwards Declares State of Emergency in Advance of Hurricane Zeta
Associated Parish ZIP Code List