Moore Haven, FL Noise Levels
Is Moore Haven, FL noisy?
Moore Haven, FL's 60-69.9 dB(A) band spans one of HUD's zone boundaries, so the honest answer is a range: somewhere between "Acceptable" (65 dB(A) or below) and "Normally Unacceptable" (65-75 dB(A)), not one clean verdict. Road traffic drives that number here, not the other two sources. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Moore Haven, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Moore Haven's noise, by source
Each of the three transportation modes gets its own model from BTS; the combined figure above is what they add up to.
What this means for a house here
Depending on where in that band the true value sits, it may also clear FHWA's 66 dB(A) residential impact threshold (23 CFR 772, Table 1), the trigger highway agencies use for sound-wall decisions. Upgraded windows, door seals and STC-rated glazing meaningfully cut broadband, near-continuous road noise.
Where Moore Haven ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Moore Haven ranks 250, loudest first. By population, it ranks 8,253 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 1,711 people.
Your street may differ from Moore Haven's reading
This page describes Moore Haven as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Moore Haven's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Moore Haven's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Since road traffic is what's driving this reading, the guide to what actually cuts each kind of noise covers the fix that fits.