Forty six percent of Daytona Park Estates sits in flood Zone A, the zone that carries a hazard with no published elevation. That is more than double any other market we have measured, and it is the thing that decides what a lot here is worth.
Check any Daytona Park Estates lot in secondsFlood zone, wetlands, soil, owner and zoning, in one search.See how it worksDaytona Park Estates is an unincorporated platted subdivision with no published municipal boundary, so we sampled 121 points on an even grid across a box of about 2.5 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 114 of those points. These are measured numbers, not estimates.
Half of this market is inside a special flood hazard area, and almost all of that half is Zone A rather than Zone AE. The difference is the whole deal.
Zone AE publishes a base flood elevation. You read the number off the map, work out the fill, price the insurance, and make an offer that reflects it.
Zone A publishes nothing. FEMA has mapped a hazard without studying it in enough detail to set an elevation. Before anyone can price the pad, the fill or the premium, somebody pays a surveyor for an elevation certificate. On a low cost lot that survey is a meaningful share of what you paid, and it happens after you are committed unless you checked first.
Forty six percent is the highest Zone A share we have measured in Florida. Palm Coast, the previous highest, was twenty one percent.
Fifty percent of soil samples came back poorly drained and twenty seven percent very poorly drained, so three quarters of the market is poorly drained or worse. The median seasonal high water table sat six inches down, about six inches.
Twenty four percent of the sample had wetland mapped on the point itself, which is high, and eighty three percent had wetland on the lot or within 500 feet.
Flood zone first and specifically whether it is A or AE, because that single letter decides whether you can price the lot from a map at all. Then soil and water table, then wetland position. Volusia County publishes its parcel, zoning and scrub jay layers and the app reads all of them for the exact parcel.
Split, and in the worst way. Of 121 evenly sampled points on 15 September 2026, 50% came back Zone X, 46% Zone A and 4% Zone AE. That is 50% inside a special flood hazard area, and almost all of it is Zone A rather than AE.
Zone AE publishes a base flood elevation, the number your finished floor has to clear, so you can price the fill and the insurance from the map. Zone A does not. FEMA has mapped the hazard without studying it closely enough to publish a number, so a surveyor has to establish one first. At 46% this is the highest Zone A share we have measured anywhere in Florida, more than double Palm Coast.
Wet. 50% of soil samples came back poorly drained and another 27% very poorly drained, with a median seasonal high water table 6 inches down.
Often. 24% of sampled points had wetland on the point itself and 83% had wetland on the lot or within 500 feet.
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