Estero, Florida
Storage for Estero owners, fifteen minutes away.
Of every community we serve, Estero is the closest. From Corkscrew Road it is one interstate exit and a few minutes west, close enough that owners here treat the unit as an extension of the house rather than a place they visit occasionally.
That proximity is the whole argument for an Estero buyer. A collection you can reach in fifteen minutes gets driven. A collection forty-five minutes away becomes a spreadsheet.
Getting here from Estero
13461 Shire Lane
About 15 minutes from Corkscrew Road · Roughly 12 miles
About 15 minutes from Corkscrew Road · Roughly 12 milesI-75 north from Exit 123 (Corkscrew Road) to Exit 131 (Daniels Parkway), then west to Shire Lane.
- Inland from the open Gulf
- 9 miles
- FEMA flood zone
- Zone X
- Wind design
- 170 mph
Flood
The flood zone in Estero, and the flood zone here.
Zones are assigned parcel by parcel. Check your own address before relying on any general description.
Current exposure
Estero
- FEMA flood zone
- Estero west of US 41 toward Estero Bay and the Estero River includes FEMA Special Flood Hazard Areas; the large gated communities east of I-75 are more commonly Zone X.
- Surge pathway
- Estero Bay and the Estero River are the local surge and riverine pathways.
The Excalibur position
Excalibur, Fort Myers
- FEMA flood zone
- FEMA Flood Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area
- Surge pathway
- Roughly nine miles inland from the open Gulf
Verify your own address
Flood zones are assigned parcel by parcel. The figures above describe each community in general terms and must be checked against Lee County GIS and the FEMA Flood Map Service Center for any specific address.
What Hurricane Ian did in Estero.
Estero sat under the southern eyewall. Surge came up Estero Bay and the Estero River into Coconut Point and the low-lying neighborhoods west of US 41; further east, the damage was overwhelmingly wind and tree loss rather than water, with long power outages across the communities off Corkscrew and Ben Hill Griffin.
The pattern across Estero was that the difference between a damaged vehicle and an undamaged one was mostly a question of which side of the interstate it slept on.
The closest serious storage option for Estero owners.
Two clear groups.
The first is the coach owner in West Bay, Shadow Wood, Grandezza, The Brooks or Pelican Sound whose declaration prohibits parking a motorhome on the lot, and who has been storing it on a gravel lot for around $310 a month.
Cars, and the Estero collectors who ran out of garage
The second is the retired or semi-retired collector with three to five cars and a garage the household has taken over.
Estero's newer communities have generous houses and mean garages; the arithmetic of buying 1,350 conditioned square feet at about $300 per square foot, fifteen minutes from home, tends to make itself.
Both groups tend to use the second floor.
When the unit is fifteen minutes away, 320 conditioned square feet with a wet-bar rough-in becomes a room you actually spend time in.
The plans Estero owners choose for serious storage.
Lance
2,028 sq ft · 676 sq ft second floor
2,028 sq ft, drawn for a 54-ft Class-A configuration. The plan for a coach owner in a community that will not let it near the house.
Lance plans
Baron
1,350 sq ft · 320 sq ft second floor · From $399,000
1,350 sq ft with a 320 sq ft second floor, the entry point for a three-or-four-car Estero collector who wants the workshop and the lounge as much as the parking.
Baron plansWhat discerning Estero buyers ask before they own.
The site-wide facts, stated once: 170 mph ultimate design wind speed, FEMA Flood Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area, roughly nine miles inland from the open Gulf, and an association fee of $1,000 per quarter on a 1,350 sq ft unit, increasing pro rata with size. RV dump station on site, included in the association fee. How the building is engineered and what it costs to own are explained in full on their own pages.