Palm Beach County, Florida
Palm Beach County covers 1,964 square miles of land. Below is what the Isopleth API returned at the Census Bureau's interior point for the county (26.64913, -80.44835) on 2026-10-29. The ground sits at 2 m (8 ft) on a 1.6° slope, the mapped soil is very poorly drained, it is outside a mapped FEMA floodplain, the nearest 69 kV+ substation is 8.8 km (5.5 mi) away and a major road is 3.2 km (2.0 mi) away. Values describe that one point, not the whole county; look up your own address or coordinates for your site.
Sample point values
| field | value | source |
|---|---|---|
| FEMA flood zone | X | FEMA_NFHL Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage 12099C_STUDY1 |
| Inside a mapped floodplain | No | FEMA_NFHL Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage 12099C_STUDY1 |
| Wildfire, annual frequency | 0.0077 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Tornado, annual frequency | 0.59 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Hail, annual frequency | 1.0 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| On a mapped wetland | Yes | USFWS_NWI U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Nearest mapped wetland | 0 m | USFWS_NWI U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Elevation | 2 m (8 ft) | USGS_3DEP_COG U.S. Geological Surveyvintage 3DEP 1/3 arc-second seamless DEM |
| Slope | 1.6° | USGS_3DEP_COG U.S. Geological Survey |
| Soil drainage | Very poorly drained | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO FL611 mukey 1407285 |
| Soil hydrologic group | A/D | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO FL611 mukey 1407285 |
| Farmland class | Unique | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO FL611 mukey 1407285 |
| Land use | Other | USFS_LCMS USDA Forest Servicevintage USFS LCMS CONUS 2025 annual (30 m) |
| Crop or cover (CDL) | Herbaceous Wetlands | USDA_CDL U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage USDA CDL 2025 (30 m) |
| Dominant crop, 5 years | Fallow/Idle Cropland | USDA_CDL U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage USDA CDL 2021-2025 dominant-crop mode |
| Tree canopy | 0% | USFS_NLCD_TCC USDA Forest Servicevintage USFS/MRLC NLCD Tree Canopy Cover (latest annual, 30 m) |
| On protected land (PAD-US) | No | PAD_US USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US)vintage USGS PAD-US 4.1 (Protection Mechanism Category combined layer) |
| Surface manager | Private or unknown | BLM_SMA Bureau of Land Management |
| Annual precipitation (normal) | 1,454 mm (57 in) | NOAA_NCEI_NORMALS_GRIDDED National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationvintage NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 gridded (nClimGrid) monthly normals v1.0, annual layers |
| Days above 32 °C a year | 114 days | NOAA_NCEI_NCLIMGRID_DAILY National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationvintage NOAA nClimGrid-Daily v1.0 (scaled), 1991-2020 mean annual day counts |
| Solar resource (GHI) | 5.17 kWh/m²/day | NREL_SOLAR_RESOURCE_V1 NREL Solar Resource Data (NSRDB)vintage NREL PSM v3 multiyear annual average (1998-2016, ~4 km, Americas) |
| Mean wind speed at 100 m | 5.5 m/s | NREL_WIND_TOOLKIT NREL WIND Toolkit (Draxl et al., 2015)vintage NREL WIND Toolkit CONUS v1.0.0, 2007-2013 (5-min, 2 km) |
| Wind capacity factor | 22% | NREL_REV_LANDBASED_WIND_SC_2024 NREL reV supply curves, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)vintage NREL reV land-based wind SC 2024 (Open access) |
| Nearest substation (69 kV+) | 8.8 km (5.5 mi) | EIA_POWER U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Nearest gas pipeline | 9.3 km (5.8 mi) | EIA_ATLAS U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Electric utility | FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO | EIA_POWER U.S. Energy Information Administrationvintage HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories |
| In a public water service area | No | EPA_CWS_SERVICE_AREAS U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyvintage V3.0 (2026-03-17) |
| Nearest major road | 3.2 km (2.0 mi) | OVERTURE_TRANSPORTATION © Overture Maps Foundation, © OpenStreetMap contributorsvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest fire station | 16.6 km (10.3 mi) | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest hospital | 19.8 km (12.3 mi) | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest school | 11.2 km (7.0 mi) | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| In an Opportunity Zone | No | HUD_OPPORTUNITY_ZONES U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Fields with no data at this point are left out. See the field catalog for all 351 fields.
Parcels
Parcel records: 10,950,665 parcels in 67 counties. Palm Beach County has 692,320 of them. Published by Florida Geographic Information Office; Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight (Public record (Fla. Stat. ch. 119), attribution); 2026 tax roll (ASMNT_YR 2026, exported August 2026), refreshed annual.
Share of parcels with each column filled: owner name 99%, site address 95%, total value 98%, land use 99%, sale date 13%, year built 79%. Not published here: zoning.
The parcel under the sample point is 621.5 acres; its public record includes owner name, site address, mailing address, total value, land value, legal description, land-use code, PLSS section. parcel_enrich returns that record for any parcel you ask about, and parcel_search finds parcels by acreage, land use or value.
Look up your own site
curl https://api.isopleth.dev/v1/fetch -H "Authorization: Bearer $ISOPLETH_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"lat": 26.649126, "lng": -80.448354, "preset": "site_selection"}'
Or ask your assistant through the MCP server: “Using Isopleth, check flood zone, wetlands, soils and distance to power for [your address in Palm Beach County, Florida].”
Buying land here? Check the Land’s Palm Beach County page shows what its $29 report checks, built on these same Isopleth fields.
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