Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Lynn Haven, FL

Lynn Haven is a city in Bay County, Florida, that was founded in 1911 by Union veterans of the Civil War who settled there as a colony of Northern retirees.

Lynn Haven was named for W. H. Lynn, a primary stockholder of the St. Andrews Bay Development Company that developed the townsite.

Lynn Haven was incorporated as a town on July 1, 1914, and later reincorporated as a city in 1927.

Lynn Haven had a population of 18,695 at the 2020 Census, barely changed from 18,493 in 2010, but the Census Bureau estimated it had grown to 22,479 by 2025 as the city rebuilt and expanded.

Lynn Haven has about 8,263 households with an average of 2.42 people per household, about 64.4% of its homes are owner-occupied, and the median value of an owner-occupied home is about $320,000.

Lynn Haven sits just north of Panama City in the Panama City-Panama City Beach metropolitan area, across the bay from the beaches of the Gulf coast.

Hurricane Michael made landfall near Lynn Haven on October 10, 2018, as a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds - the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and the third-strongest landfalling hurricane in the contiguous U.S. on record at the time.

Lynn Haven recorded Florida's highest rainfall total from Hurricane Michael, 11.62 inches, as the storm crossed the Panhandle.

Hurricane Michael severely damaged nearly every building in Lynn Haven, destroyed more than 250 homes, and wrecked city hall, the police department, and the commission chambers, displacing thousands of residents and forcing a years-long rebuild.