Brevard County, FL Shrink-Swell Risk

What Brevard County, FL's soil means for a foundation

Low

USDA's SSURGO data puts Brevard County, FL's soil at "Low" shrink-swell potential, an area-weighted linear extensibility of 1.13% across 91.5% of the county's surveyed land. That's as favorable a county-level reading as this dataset produces - standard foundation practice, pending one lot's own geotechnical report.

This is a county figure, not a lot figure

USDA's survey covers the whole of Brevard County, FL at once, not any single address. A site-specific soil report, usually $1,000-$5,000, is what an engineer would actually pull before designing a foundation on a lot in Brevard County.

Report cost vs. repair cost

With Brevard County, FL rating "Low", a geotechnical report is still worthwhile before a build, just less urgent than in a high-risk county. A geotechnical report runs $1,000-$5,000, typically around $2,700. Foundation repair, if a specific lot turns out to differ from the county average, runs $5,000-$15,000.

Brevard County's rank among Florida counties

Nationally, Brevard County, FL is the 2,815-most-constrained of 3,085 rated counties for shrink-swell soil. Within Florida alone it ranks 27 of 66. Brevard County, FL is 1,015 square miles with a population of 658,447.

See how another county compares

Orleans Parish, LA carries this site's most-constrained reading. Dawson County, NE and Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK are worth a look for comparison.

How this reading is built, and its real limits · Moisture management: the cheap fix that works on any soil

More of Florida

Every county in Florida is on this site, including Okeechobee County, FL and Palm Beach County, FL. The full underlying dataset is downloadable directly, one row per county.