Jefferson Parish
Shutters and screens on Grand Isle. Barrier island installs.
Grand Isle is Louisiana's only inhabited barrier island, and it takes a direct hit or near-miss from most named storms that enter the central Gulf. Nu Code Shutters installs marine-grade aluminum shutters and storm screens across Grand Isle and the Fourchon corridor.
- Wind speed
- Design wind speed: 160 mph (ASCE 7-22, Risk Category II).
- Best-fit products
- Roll-down storm screens are the most-installed product on Grand Isle because they close in under a minute per opening, which matters when evacuation windows are short. All hardware on the island should be marine-grade to survive salt spray year-round.
- Recent storm history
- Grand Isle took a direct Category-4 hit from Hurricane Ida in 2021 that damaged or destroyed a large share of the island's structures. Zeta (2020), Delta (2020), Barry (2019), and Isaac (2012) all made landfall on or near the island.
