Wauchula Row Crop Ground
Hardee County, FL · Row Crop · Active
Asking price
$3,936,000
Price / acre
$8,200
Acreage
480 ac
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Valuation
$4,325,275
9.0% below estimated value
VerifiedThis property is illustrative sample data. Its asking price, Opportunity Score and valuation are hand-authored figures — not a real listing, and not computed by the scoring engine.Comparable sales in Hardee County — market context
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Risk Flags
- Low riskImported fire ant quarantine
Hardee County is under a federal Imported Fire Ant quarantine (Active Federal Quarantine), restricting movement of soil, sod, hay, nursery stock, and similar regulated articles capable of spreading the pest. Source: USDA APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine.
- Medium riskWetlands
Property intersects a mapped wetland (Freshwater Forested/Shrub Wetland, NWI code PFO1C). Development, drainage, or land-clearing here may require Clean Water Act Section 404 permitting. Source: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory.
- High riskFlood zone
Property is located within a FEMA-designated Special Flood Hazard Area (flood zone A). Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer.
Solar Lease Fit
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Kaliga muck, frequently ponded, 0 to 1 percent slopes (map unit 36)
- Drainage
- Very poorly drained
- Flood frequency
- None
- Slope
- 0.5%
- Capability class
- 7
- Farmland classification
- Not prime farmland
Source: USDA NRCS Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO). Farmland classification reflects the federal Farmland Protection Policy Act designation for this soil map unit.
Crop Cover
Woody Wetlands (2021 classification)
Source: USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer — satellite-observed, not self-reported. Compare against the listed land use above.
County Agricultural Context
Hardee County-wide figures, not specific to this parcel — pooled across every agricultural land use in the county.
- Avg. ag land value
- $6,616 / acre
- Cattle inventory
- 71,991 head
- Irrigated acreage
- 50,142 ac
- Orchard acreage
- 41,195 ac
- Direct farm sales
- 0.2% of sales
- Agritourism operations
- 6
Source: USDA NASS 2022 Census of Agriculture — published every 5 years. Orchard/berry acreage, direct farm sales, and agritourism figures are from USDA ERS's 2017 local food economy data set — a different vintage than the figures above, and the most recent ERS has released.
County Crop Loss Context
Hardee County-wide figures, not specific to this parcel — real federal crop insurance claims paid across every insured crop in the county that year.
- Top cause of loss
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain ($6,910,646 paid)
- Total indemnity paid
- $26,357,866
Source: USDA Risk Management Agency 2024 Cause of Loss Summary of Business. "Top cause of loss" excludes area/index insurance products (ARPI, STAX, etc.) whose losses aren't attributed to one physical peril — the total indemnity figure still includes them.
County Economic Context
Hardee County-wide figures, not specific to this parcel — population and local economic conditions, relevant background for a land investment thesis.
- Population
- 25,760
- Net migration
- +76
- Rural-urban classification
- 6 · Nonmetro, urban 2.5k–20k, metro-adjacent
- Unemployment rate
- 4.1%
- Median household income
- $48,572
- Poverty rate
- 26.2%
- Per capita income
- $22,377
Source: USDA ERS (Economic Research Service). Population, net migration, and rural-urban classification are 2023; unemployment rate is 2023; median household income is 2022 (ERS's own source data publishes income figures a year behind unemployment). County typology classifications (farming-dependent, natural amenities, retirement destination, population loss, low education, low employment) are ERS's 2015 edition, the most recent ERS has released. Poverty rate and per capita income are 5-year ACS estimates ending 2021 — a different survey and vintage than median household income above, not a duplicate figure.
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