Indian Harbour Beach

Indian Harbour Beach is a city in Brevard County, Florida. The population was 8,225 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the Palm Bay - Melbourne - Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is north of the town of Indialantic and south of Satellite Beach. It is the first and only community in the United States to be a NOAA Tsunami Ready community along the nation's East Coast.GeographyAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.6sqmi. 2.1sqmi of it is land and 0.5sqmi of it (18.63%) is water.ClimateIndian Harbour Beach is located in the region where tropical and temperate climatic zones interface. Daytime temperatures average in the summer months and in the winter months. A study commissioned by NASA lends credence to the notion that Indian Harbour Beach is located in a portion of the North American Atlantic shoreline with a uniquely reduced incidence of catastrophic hurricanes.FaunaThreatened Atlantic loggerhead sea turtles nest on the city's ocean beaches at densities of approximately one nest per of shoreline per year. Endangered green sea turtles deposit an average of tens of nests along the city's ocean beach each year.