Wakulla County's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

USDA puts Wakulla County, FL at "Very limited" for septic absorption fields, the dominant reading across 88.8% of the county's soil. A standard gravity system routinely fails on ground like this; the same share of the county falls in USDA's worst absorption-field bucket outright. For scale: 606.42 square miles and 37,115 people call Wakulla County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

This is a countywide, area-weighted figure across every soil survey map unit in Wakulla County, FL - never a reading for one specific parcel. The real answer for one lot is still a site-specific perc test, running about $750-$1,850 (typically near $1,300).

Budgeting for a system in Wakulla County, FL

Wakulla County's soil reading pushes the likely outcome toward an engineered system rather than a conventional one. Conventional systems run $3,000-$8,000 where they pass; where they don't, engineered alternatives (mound or aerobic treatment, whichever the health department requires) run $10,000-$40,000 - budget toward the higher figure until a perc test says otherwise.

How Wakulla County, FL compares

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Wakulla County, FL ranks 1,391 most-constrained nationally, and 27 of 65 within Florida.

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