Wedgefield has a seasonal high water table three inches down. Three inches. It also sampled eighty nine percent flood Zone X. If you screen this market on FEMA alone you will misprice almost every lot in it.
Check any Wedgefield lot in secondsFlood zone, wetlands, soil, owner and zoning, in one search.See how it worksWe sampled 121 points on an even grid across Wedgefield 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 121 of those points, because the survey does not cover open water. These are measured numbers, not estimates.
The median seasonal high water table across our grid sat three inches below the surface. For comparison, Deltona and New Port Richey both measured thirty inches, Citrus Springs twenty three, Palm Bay fifteen.
Ninety four percent of soil samples came back poorly drained on top of that, with another five percent very poorly drained. Between the two, fill and a mounded septic system are not a contingency here, they are the base case, and they belong in your acquisition number rather than in a surprise after the perc test.
Ninety six percent of the sample had wetland on the lot or within 500 feet, second only to Indian Lake Estates, which measured ninety seven. Fifteen percent had it mapped on the point itself.
Wedgefield sits against the Econlockhatchee river swamp on the eastern edge of Orange County, and every water layer we query agrees about what that means.
Eighty nine percent Zone X, six percent Zone AE, five percent Zone A. Eleven percent of the grid sat inside a special flood hazard area.
That is a good flood map, and it is the reason this market screens well on a first pass. It is also the least informative of the three layers here, which is the single most useful thing to know before you buy in Wedgefield.
Water table and soil first, then wetland position, then flood zone last. Then whether the lot has legal access and power, because this is a large subdivision on the edge of the county and neither is uniform. Orange County publishes its parcel and zoning layers and the app reads them directly.
Mostly Zone X. Of 121 evenly sampled points on 15 September 2026, 89% came back Zone X, 6% Zone AE and 5% Zone A, leaving 11% inside a special flood hazard area. The flood map is the best looking layer here and it is the least useful one.
The wettest we have measured. The median seasonal high water table sat 3 inches down, and 94% of soil samples came back poorly drained with another 5% very poorly drained. Nothing else we have sampled in Florida comes close on water table depth.
Almost everywhere. 96% of sampled points had wetland on the lot or within 500 feet, second only to Indian Lake Estates, and 15% had wetland mapped on the point itself. Wedgefield sits against the Econlockhatchee river swamp and it shows in every water layer.
It is done constantly, but the septic design and the fill are the whole conversation and neither is optional. A conventional drainfield with the water table three inches down is not something Orange County is going to approve.
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