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I-95 in Florida, from the Brickell skyline to mile marker 380.5

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At 21:13 on Sunday evening the first camera on I-95 in Florida was holding the Brickell towers above the southbound lanes. It calls itself 001-CCTV in the corner of its own picture, and the feed name is I-95 at Southwest 26th Road. A 1280x720 still, new every 30 seconds, with the skyline across the top third and palms in the near foreground. Just under two miles north the same road passes downtown and the camera at NW 5th Street looks the other way, up a canyon of sign gantries with the downtown towers filling the right of the frame. Its caption reads I-95 AT NW 1 ST, which is not the name FDOT gives it in the feed. When those two disagree, believe the picture.

Counting along the road this morning, 2026-10-26, there are 516 cameras whose name begins "I-95" within 8 km of the corridor, from SW 26th Road to mile marker 380.5 in Nassau County. Every one of them comes from FDOT's 511 system, every one is a still rather than video, and every one is on a 30 second cycle. They sit inside the 5,425 live cameras we currently list in Florida. I counted them by sweeping the corridor in 0.05 degree steps and keeping the unique rows, so a camera a mile or two off the road is in and a camera a mile the wrong side of a county line may be counted with its neighbour.

The middle of the state is numbered, not named

The useful thing to know before you go looking is that the corridor is labelled three different ways, and which one you get depends on where you are.

That is why searching by exit name falls apart in the middle of the state. Nothing between Stuart and St. Augustine is called Kanner Road or SR-16 in the list you are searching.

The good part is that the two keys are both there, just not in the same place. The feed name gives you one and the picture gives you the other. MP 126.5 southbound in Fort Pierce burns "1265 - I-95 SB at Midway Rd" across the top of every frame. MP 101.0 northbound in Martin County says "1010 - I-95 NB at Kanner Road". It runs the other way too: the Jacksonville camera the feed calls I-95 at Trout River Bridge stamps MM357.5 into its own corner. So whichever half of the pair you arrived with, the camera hands you the other one.

Twelve worth opening, south to north

Times below are Eastern, and every frame described here was pulled between 01:10 and 01:16 UTC on 2026-10-26, which was 21:10 to 21:16 on Sunday evening in Florida.

SW 26th Road is the one to open at dusk. The Brickell towers light up before the road does and the camera holds both.

I-95 south of Broward Blvd in Fort Lauderdale switches to black and white after dark, so what you get at night is a monochrome plan of the express lanes, the barrier posts and the Broward Blvd overpass. In daylight it is one of the clearest views of how the express lanes thread through the general ones.

I-95 north of Okeechobee in West Palm Beach spends about half its frame on the underside of the flyover. Open it for the ramps underneath, not the mainline.

MP 101.0 at Kanner Road is the Martin County pick, four lanes in a palm median with the Stuart retail strip glowing off to the left.

MP 126.5 at Midway Road looks down a long southbound straight outside Fort Pierce with the reflective lane studs picked out one by one.

MP 145.0 southbound near Vero Beach is worth watching for the trucks climbing out of the interchange, and worth noting for a smaller reason: the frame says MP 146.0 while the feed says 145.0.

MM 219.9 northbound at Titusville is the Space Coast camera on the list, pointed up the northbound carriageway with the truck stop lights on the shoulder.

MM 286.0 southbound at Palm Coast is a 352x240 frame, the smallest of the lot, and it prints LOOKING: SE under its name so you know which way it faces before you squint at it.

I-95 at SR-16 outside St. Augustine, MM 317.6 by its own caption, is the best wet-road camera of the twelve. Rain on that stretch turns the surface into a mirror of every light on the overpass.

I-95 at the Acosta Bridge exit is downtown Jacksonville at ground level, taillights on the deck and the San Marco buildings up on the left.

I-95 at Trout River Bridge picks up the long bend over the water north of downtown, which is the frame to open when you want to know whether the fog has come up the river.

I-95 north of US-17 is the last camera in Florida, MM 380.5 by its own caption, with nothing of ours between it and the Georgia line. On a wet night the raindrops on its dome turn every light into a starburst, which is either a fault or the nicest thing on this list.

Between Palm Coast and St. Augustine, and again north of Titusville, there is very little in frame after dark beyond headlights and the odd lit sign, so those stretches are a morning watch rather than an evening one.

What we do with them

We re-fetch every camera on the site about once a day and compare the frame against the last one we stored, which is how a dead feed gets caught rather than sitting there looking plausible. All thirteen cameras linked above answered with a frame when I pulled them tonight. I will run the same corridor sweep again in a month and say here what the count did.

The thing I still cannot answer is where exactly the MP labels stop and the MM labels start, and whether the one mile disagreement at Vero Beach is a single camera or a pattern. Next time I will read the caption off every frame between Stuart and Melbourne and count how many of them disagree with their own name.

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