Mexico Beach is a city in Bay County, Florida, United States. It is located 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Panama City. The population was 1,060 at the 2020 census. The community was extensively damaged by Hurricane Michael on October 10, 2018. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) declared the community “wiped out” in the aftermath of the hurricane’s devastating impact.

Mexico Beach was incorporated in 1966. Before Hurricane Michael, “the town was “old Florida,” … a gathering of 50-year-old bungalows and newer trip homes upon stilts,” where tourists walked upon white sand beaches.

On November 22, 1985, Hurricane Kate’s eye passed higher than Mexico Beach. Category 2 winds and tides destroyed beachfront homes and businesses.

Hurricane Michael made landfall close Mexico Beach upon October 10, 2018, just in the past 1 p.m. local time subsequently maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour (260 km/h), the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Michael made archives as the third strongest (by pressure) and fourth strongest (by wind speed) landfalling storm in the continental United States. The storm caused extensive broken to the community, and to the user-friendly Tyndall Air Force Base. Nearly whatever homes were no question destroyed. Brock Long, the FEMA administrator, told CNN that Mexico Beach was “wiped out” and referred to the community as “ground zero”. The elementary college and city hall were accompanied by the buildings devastated; the pier washed away, and the water tower was knocked down.