Navarre Beach, Florida, is an unincorporated community in Santa Rosa County in the U.S. state of Florida. It is on Santa Rosa Island, a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico.
Immediately to its east is Navarre Beach State Park, one of Florida's state parks. Immediately to its west is a portion of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and further west is the city of Pensacola Beach. To the north, across Santa Rosa Sound and on the mainland, is the community of Navarre.
Navarre Beach has had the misfortune of being hit by 4 major hurricanes over an 11 year period, three of them within a year of eachother: Hurricane Opal in 1995, Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, Hurricane Dennis in July 2005, and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Ivan did severe damage; Hurricane Katrina was only a glancing blow and did minor damage compared to the utter devastation done farther west.
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