Every point we sampled in Belleview Heights came back flood Zone X, ninety eight percent of the soil drains well or better, and the water table sits three and a half feet down. It is one of the three cleanest markets on this site.
Check any Belleview Heights lot in secondsFlood zone, wetlands, soil, owner and zoning, in one search.See how it worksBelleview Heights is an unincorporated platted subdivision with no published municipal boundary, so we sampled 121 points on an even grid across a box of about 2 miles centred on it, on 15 September 2026. Each point was run against the same public layers the app queries: FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer, the US Fish and Wildlife National Wetlands Inventory on the point and within 500 feet, and the USDA soil survey. Soil figures come from 121 of those points. These are measured numbers, not estimates.
FEMA answered for 120 of the 121 points and the flood percentage is of those 120. Belleview Heights is a platted subdivision, not the nearby incorporated city of Belleview, and it is the subdivision we sampled.
The median seasonal high water table sat forty two inches down, three and a half feet. Only Rainbow Springs, at fifty seven inches, measured deeper.
For a septic system that is comfortable. For a foundation it is comfortable. It is the structural advantage this whole part of Marion County has over anything on either coast, and it is why a lot here that looks similar on a listing behaves completely differently once you start building.
All 120 answered points were Zone X. Zero points had wetland mapped on the lot and one point, under one percent, had wetland within 500 feet.
For comparison, Palm Bay is seventy nine percent within 500 feet and South Gulf Cove is one hundred. The water questions that dominate coastal Florida essentially do not apply here.
Eighty percent well drained, seventeen percent excessively drained, three percent somewhat poorly drained. Ninety eight percent is well drained or better.
Excessively drained sand holds no water, so anything you plant will need irrigation, and the same limestone that drains it is the karst that produces sinkholes further west. Marion County has far fewer than Hernando, but it is not zero.
Gopher tortoise first, because dry upland is prime habitat and a relocation is priced per animal. Then road surface, power and zoning. Marion County publishes its parcel and zoning layers and the app reads them directly.
Entirely Zone X in our sample. FEMA answered for 120 of 121 evenly sampled points on 15 September 2026 and all of them came back Zone X, none inside a special flood hazard area.
Effectively none. Not one sampled point had wetland mapped on it and a single point, under 1%, had wetland within 500 feet.
Yes. 80% of soil samples came back well drained and another 17% excessively drained, so 98% is well drained or better, with a median seasonal high water table 42 inches down, about three and a half feet.
No. Belleview Heights is a platted subdivision in Marion County and the city of Belleview is a separate incorporated place nearby. We sampled the subdivision, not the city, because that is the market being traded.
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