Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection
Florida's Coral Reef
Florida's Coral Reef stretches almost 350 miles from the Dry Tortugas to the St. Lucie Inlet. It’s the only coral reef system in the continental United States and is home to over 40 species of reef-building corals that provide shelter, food and breeding sites for millions of plants and animals.
About Florida’s Coral Reef
Florida is the only state in the continental U.S. to have extensive, shallow coral reef formation near its coast. The reef extends approximately 350 miles from the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of America to the St. Lucie Inlet in Martin County. Formations in Florida’s Coral Reef are very similar to those found in the Bahamas and Caribbean.