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More than 600 cellphone towers were inoperable. Close to 900,000 Florida Power and Light customers were left without electricity. Flooding in portions of Coconut Grove and Matheson Hammock Park reached 6 feet. And agricultural damages totaled $245 million.

Hurricane Irma dealt a devastating blow to Miami-Dade County when it struck Florida on Sept. 10, 2017. But not all the resulting impacts were to infrastructure.

In the days following the powerful cyclone, mosquito populations in Miami-Dade exploded, heightening the risk of vector-borne diseases to vulnerable residents in the midst of storm recovery efforts, according to a study by a University of Miami health geographer.

"The warmer temperatures, elevated humidity, and the nutrient enrichment of floodwaters that followed Hurricane Irma all combined to create the ideal environmental conditions for mosquitoes to breed in greater numbers," said Imelda Moise, an associate professor of geography in the College of Arts and Sciences and the lead author of the study.

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