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State grant program

My Safe Florida Home, for impact windows and doors

A state grant that pays part of the cost of hardening your home. We are an approved contractor for the program — whether your grant is already approved, still in the queue, or you have no idea yet whether you qualify.

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Read this before you rely on any of the numbers below

My Safe Florida Home is funded in cycles by the Florida Legislature. The grant cap, the income bands and whether applications are open at all have all changed between cycles, and plenty of contractor pages about this program — including some ranking well right now — still describe rules that expired. Everything on this page is stated as of September 2026. The authority is the program itself: mysafeflhome.com . Check it before you plan around anything here.

What the program is

My Safe Florida Home pays a share of the cost of wind-mitigation improvements on eligible homesteaded Florida homes. Opening protection — impact windows, impact doors and rated garage doors — is one of the categories it covers, and for most South Florida homes it is the improvement with the largest effect on both storm resilience and insurance premium.

It is a grant rather than a loan. Nothing is repaid and nothing attaches to your property, which distinguishes it sharply from PACE financing, the other program homeowners often confuse it with. As of September 2026 the maximum is up to $10,000 per homeowner, the current cycle is limited to low and moderate income homeowners, and applications are processed in a priority queue by income band and age rather than in the order they arrive.

The three numbers people ask for

The match is two to one
The state contributes $2 for every $1 you put in, to a maximum state contribution of $10,000. So a $15,000 project is roughly $5,000 from you and $10,000 from the program, and spending beyond that point is entirely yours.
Low-income applicants match nothing
If you qualify as low income, the grant is up to $10,000 with no matching contribution required. This is the part most contractor pages leave out, and it is the difference between this being affordable and not. If money is the reason you have not applied, find out which band you are in before you assume the answer.
The home must be insured for $700,000 or less
That is insured value, not market value or what you paid, and it sits alongside the requirement that the property be your homesteaded primary residence and site-built.

Figures as of September 2026, from the program’s own FAQ. The Legislature sets them and has changed them between cycles, so confirm at mysafeflhome.com before you rely on any contractor’s page, this one included.

The free wind mitigation inspection is worth a mention on its own. Even homeowners who never proceed with a grant come out of it holding a professional assessment of exactly which improvements would harden their house and in what order — which is a genuinely useful document to have in hand before you spend anything.

What opening protection covers

Opening protection is the grant category most South Florida homes are funded under, and it does not mean windows alone. The wind mitigation form scores your whole building envelope, so the rating is set by your least protected glazed opening — one original slider, an overlooked skylight or an unrated garage door holds back the whole house. All three of these photographs are our own work.

Modern South Florida home with dark-framed hurricane impact windows and full-height glazing
Impact windowsEvery glazed opening counts toward the rating, including the small ones people forget.
Run of hurricane impact sliding glass doors along the rear elevation of a home beside a pool
Impact sliding doorsUsually the largest opening in the house, and the one carrying the most load.
Double impact entry doors with glazed sidelights on a South Florida home
Impact entry doorsThe glass panel in an entry door is a glazed opening like any other.

Wherever you are with the grant, we can pick it up

Approved and ready to book, waiting in the queue, or still working out whether any of this applies to you — these need different things from us, and only one of them is a quote. Find yourself below.

You have not applied, and you are not sure you qualify

Start here. Most of the calls we take about this program are from homeowners who have heard it exists and cannot tell whether it applies to them.

  • We will walk you through the current eligibility criteria in plain English — homestead status, the insured-value limit, and the income bands for the cycle that is open.
  • If it looks like you do not qualify this cycle, we will tell you that. It is a five-minute conversation that saves you weeks in a queue.
  • You make the application yourself through the official portal — that is how the program works, and any contractor offering to file it for you is describing something else.
  • We will also tell you what the work would cost without the grant, so you can decide whether waiting for a cycle is worth it.

You have applied, or had the free inspection, and you are waiting

This is the right moment to get quoted, not after the award lands. Awards come with a deadline and the queue does not warn you when your turn is coming.

  • Send us your state wind mitigation inspection report and we will quote the opening protection scope directly against it, opening by opening.
  • The quote is itemised and fixed, with the product approval documents attached — which is the form the program expects the paperwork to take.
  • We measure and specify now so that when your award is issued you are scheduling work rather than starting to look for a contractor.
  • If your report identifies improvements outside what we do, we will say so plainly rather than quoting around them.

Your grant is approved and you need an approved contractor

Move on this. Reimbursement depends on the work being done by a contractor the program recognises, and your award letter carries a date.

  • ClearView is an approved My Safe Florida Home contractor — that status is the thing your reimbursement depends on, so confirm it for every quote you collect.
  • We pull the permit, install with our own crews, and meet the inspector at both the in-progress and final inspections.
  • We supply the permit close-out, the product approval documentation and the invoices in the form the program asks for at reimbursement.
  • Nothing starts before your grant is approved. That rule is the most expensive one to get wrong and we will not let you break it to hold a slot.

Not sure which one you are? Call (561) 464-6272 and we will work it out on the phone. There is no charge and no obligation either way.

How the process runs, in order

  1. 1

    Check that applications are open

    The program runs on funding cycles appropriated by the Florida Legislature and has opened and closed several times since it restarted. Before anything else, check the official site — it posts whether the application window is open and which applicant categories it is currently serving.

  2. 2

    Apply and join the queue

    Applications are processed by the Department of Financial Services in priority order rather than first-come-first-served. As of this page's date, priority runs by income band and age: low-income applicants aged 60 and over first, then low-income under 60, then moderate-income aged 60 and over, then moderate-income under 60.

  3. 3

    Take the free wind mitigation inspection

    A state-arranged inspector visits your home and produces a wind mitigation report identifying which improvements would harden it — opening protection, roof-to-wall connections, roof covering and so on. The inspection is free and it is what your grant scope is built from. It is worth having even if you never proceed with the grant.

  4. 4

    Get quotes from approved contractors

    You choose your own contractor, but the program requires an approved one — reimbursement depends on it, so confirm approved status before you sign anything. ClearView is an approved My Safe Florida Home contractor. The products must also meet Florida Product Approval or, in Miami-Dade and Broward, Miami-Dade NOA. We quote grant scopes the same way we quote anything else: itemised, from a real measure, with the approval documents attached.

  5. 5

    Get the grant approved before you start

    This is the step people get wrong, and it is expensive. Work started before your grant is approved is generally not reimbursable. Do not let any contractor talk you into beginning early to hold a price or a slot.

  6. 6

    Complete the work and submit for reimbursement

    Once approved, the work is completed, inspected and permitted normally, and the reimbursement is claimed with the required documentation. We supply the permit close-out, product approval paperwork and invoices in the form the program asks for.

The grant and the insurance credit are two different things

Homeowners routinely treat these as one benefit. They are not. The grant reduces what you pay for the work once. The wind mitigation credit reduces the windstorm portion of your homeowners insurance premium at every renewal for as long as the openings are protected — and it is triggered by the inspection form your carrier receives, entirely independently of whether a grant was involved.

How the wind mitigation credit is actually calculated →

Official program site: mysafeflhome.com · Information on this page current as of September 2026

Finished white-framed hurricane impact windows across the side elevation of a South Florida home, installed by ClearView

An approved contractor for the program

Your reimbursement depends on the work being carried out by a contractor the program recognises. That approval is separate from a state contractor licence and a business needs both — so ask every company quoting your grant work for both, in writing, before you sign anything.

  • Approved My Safe Florida Home contractor. The status grant reimbursement is conditional on.
  • Florida Certified General Contractor #CGC1530499. Look it up yourself at MyFloridaLicense.com — it is a public register, and a contractor who will not give you the number in writing has answered the question.
  • Our own crews, and our own permit. We pull it, we meet the inspector at the in-progress and final inspections, and we close it out. Nothing about that is subcontracted.
  • Reimbursement paperwork in the right form. Permit close-out, product approval documentation and itemised invoices, handed over together rather than chased afterwards.
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FAQ — My Safe Florida Home

Common questions about the My Safe Florida Home grant

A Florida state program that pays part of the cost of wind-mitigation improvements — including impact windows and impact doors — on eligible homesteaded Florida homes, after a free state wind mitigation inspection. It is a grant, not a loan, so there is nothing to repay. Funding is appropriated by the Legislature in cycles, and eligibility rules have changed between cycles, so confirm the current position at mysafeflhome.com before planning around it. Figures on this page are as of September 2026.
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