Deltona has the deepest water table we have measured anywhere in Florida, thirty inches down, and a quarter of it still sits inside a flood hazard area. Those two facts are not in conflict, they are just measuring different things.
Check any Deltona lot in secondsFlood zone, wetlands, soil, owner and zoning, in one search.See how it worksWe sampled 121 points on an even grid across Deltona on 15 September 2026 and ran each 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 110 of those points, because the survey does not cover open water. These are measured numbers, not estimates.
Sixty percent of soil samples came back excessively drained and another twenty three percent moderately well drained. The median seasonal high water table sat thirty inches down.
That is the deepest water table in any market we have sampled, deeper than Marion Oaks and deeper than Citrus Springs. For a septic system and for a foundation it is the single best thing about buying here.
Seventy four percent Zone X, fourteen percent Zone AE, twelve percent Zone A. A quarter of the grid sat inside a special flood hazard area.
The twelve percent in Zone A is the part to slow down on. Zone AE publishes a base flood elevation you can build against. Zone A does not, so a surveyor has to establish the number before the fill or the insurance can be priced at all. Deltona sits around the St Johns river basin and the lakes, and that is where those points cluster.
Nineteen percent of the sample had wetland mapped on the point and forty nine percent had it on the lot or within 500 feet. Roughly half the market has wetland nearby, which is far below Port St. Lucie or Cape Coral and far above Citrus Springs.
Volusia publishes a Florida scrub jay layer, and scrub jay is a federally listed species, so a finding on your parcel is not a negotiation. It is one of the more expensive things that can turn up on an otherwise ordinary residential lot. The app checks the county layer for the exact parcel at the same time as flood and wetlands.
Flood zone first, and specifically whether it is A or AE, because that decides whether you can price the lot from a map at all. Then the scrub jay layer, then wetlands. The soil is usually the least of your problems here, which is the opposite of most of Florida.
Mixed. Of 121 evenly sampled points on 15 September 2026, 74% came back Zone X, 14% Zone AE and 12% Zone A, which puts 26% inside a special flood hazard area. The Zone A share matters more than it looks, because Zone A carries no published base flood elevation and a surveyor has to establish one.
Better than most of Florida. 60% of our soil samples came back excessively drained and another 23% moderately well drained, with a median seasonal high water table 30 inches down. That is the deepest water table of any market we have measured, and it is the best thing about this market.
Some. 19% of sampled points had wetland on the point itself and 49% had wetland on the lot or within 500 feet. That is roughly half the market with wetland nearby, well below the coastal markets but well above the sand ridge.
Sometimes. Volusia County publishes a Florida scrub jay layer, and scrub jay habitat is one of the more expensive findings on a residential lot because it is a federally listed species. Land in Seconds reads the county layer for the specific parcel rather than making you guess from a regional map.
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