Platted, permitted and under way in Wakulla County, FL

Preserve at Wakulla Station, Phase II

About 42 homesites of roughly two acres each, fourteen miles from the state capitol and ten miles north of their own county seat

A road has been cut, graded and settled across this ground, and a new block of lots reached the county roll in late summer 2026. Next door, the first phase of the same community has been lived in since 2022. What has not happened is everything a buyer usually looks for: no street name published, no addresses assigned, no home started and nothing with a price.

Fast facts, and what has not been released

What the record establishes today, and what is still open. Anything not released goes out to the interest list the day it lands.

Where

Wakulla Station, unincorporated Wakulla County, Florida, Crawfordville mail, ZIP 32327

Phase

Phase II, adjoining a built-out 23-home first phase from 2022

Homesites

About 42, plus a small association-held tract

Typical lot size

About two acres, essentially the same as the first phase

Platted block

Roughly 99 acres, new on the county roll late summer 2026

Environmental permit

Individual state permit issued August 2025, running to 2030

Flood mapping

Site mapped outside the special flood hazard area

Applicant of record, Phase II

Pafford Properties and Construction, not selling here yet

Homeowners association

Shared with Phase I. Dues not published

Community development district

None identified

Street name

Not yet published

Addresses

Not yet assigned

Pricing, floor plans, model home

Not yet released

Get notified when any of that changes.

Details on this page are compiled from public entitlement records and are targets, not commitments. Pricing, floor plans, home counts, and timing have not been released by the builder and are subject to change without notice.

You are closer to Tallahassee than to your own county seat

Almost everything written about this address gets the geography backwards. The mail city is Crawfordville, which is also the Wakulla County seat, and that reads to most people as a long drive south through a rural county. This land sits about ten miles straight-line north of Crawfordville, on the Tallahassee side of the county seat rather than beyond it. From here it is roughly fourteen miles straight-line to downtown Tallahassee and the state capitol, about fifteen to the main hospital and to Florida State University, and about thirteen to the airport. This is the closest-in corner of the county to the city, and you are closer to the capital than to the courthouse town that supplies your mail.

Those are straight-line distances and honest lower bounds on road distance: no routed drive time could be established for a site with no assigned address, so there is no minutes figure here. What surrounds you is genuinely good. Wakulla Springs, one of the largest and deepest freshwater springs in the world, with a state park, a historic lodge, riverboat tours and swimming, is about four and a half miles away. St Marks, the river town with its national wildlife refuge and historic fort site, is about six, and the paved Tallahassee to St Marks rail-trail runs through the corridor. The coast at Shell Point is about thirteen miles, and the Apalachicola National Forest lies immediately west.

A new block of lots is on the county roll, the state environmental permit is issued, and the road has been cut and settled. There is still no street name, no address, no price and no sales office. Add your name and you will hear when that changes.

Is this Wakulla site actually in a flood zone? No, and that is unusual here

This is the question worth the most to anyone considering Wakulla County, and almost nobody answers it for a specific piece of ground. Wakulla is a low-lying coastal county with an earned reputation for water, and the reputation is real.

The second is that it is not earned here. On the current national flood mapping, this site is mapped outside the special flood hazard area, and so is the point on the new road. Nothing of that kind is mapped within roughly 900 metres in any direction. Such areas do exist in the wider neighbourhood: within about three kilometres the mapping includes a number of higher-risk polygons, two carrying a published base flood elevation. The floodplain is nearby. It is not on this ground.

A negative is only worth something if the test would catch a positive, so that was checked. In the same session, against the same mapping, a coastal location elsewhere in this county returned high-risk coastal mapping flagged inside the special flood hazard area with a published base flood elevation. The instrument works, so this negative is a tested result rather than missing data.

The claims record points the same way and explains the apparent contradiction. Across the whole history of the federal flood insurance program this county has about 1,554 paid claims totalling roughly $33.3 million. Sorted by the flood zone each policy was rated in, about 53 percent sit in coastal high-velocity areas and most of the rest in other higher-risk mapped areas. Wakulla's flood losses are a shoreline and tidal-river phenomenon, and this site is inland of it.

Here is the limit, stated plainly rather than buried. The mapping could be established for the site as a whole, not lot by lot: the recorded lot polygons were not available, so no per-lot overlay was run and this page will not claim any homesite was individually tested. Pull the effective determination for your lot.

The county's flood history, in the two measures that matter

Claim shares get quoted loosely, so both measures are given separately and labelled. Through a data freeze in September 2026, the worst single calendar year in this county's claims record is 2005, at about 30.7 percent of every claim ever recorded; the worst single month is July 2005, at about 30.4 percent. Those are close because that year's losses came from one storm.

They do not always converge, which is why the labels matter. In 1985 the calendar-year share is about 15.6 percent while the worst single month is only about 9.3 percent, because that year's losses split across two events. One number answers how bad the worst storm was, the other how bad the worst year was.

Recent years, as claims recorded: 50 in 2016, one in 2017, 236 in 2018, one in 2019, 28 in 2024 and one in 2026, with none recorded for 2020 through 2023 or for 2025 through the data freeze. October 2018, the month of Hurricane Michael, is the second-largest claim month on record at about 15.2 percent.

One empty year deserves a warning rather than a flattering reading. The record shows zero claims for 2023, the year Hurricane Idalia made landfall in the Big Bend. We do not know whether that is a reporting artifact or a genuine absence of insured flood losses here, and we will not guess. It is emphatically not evidence that Idalia did no damage.

Hurricanes and insurance, both of which invert the expectation

Wakulla County and the Big Bend have taken repeated hurricane impacts: Michael in October 2018, Idalia in August 2023, and Debby and Helene in 2024. Earlier, Hurricane Dennis in July 2005 is by a wide margin the county's costliest flood insurance event on record. The 2024 storms produced 28 claims county-wide, real but an order of magnitude below 2005 or 2018.

Nothing in the record suggests this site, this subdivision or either builder's work was damaged or rebuilt after any of those storms, so there is no rebuild story here. Florida's current building code is written for this wind environment, and a home built to it is a material step up on the county's older stock. Because this ground is inland and mapped outside the special flood hazard area, the dominant risk here is wind rather than storm surge, and surge is what devastates Wakulla's coastal settlements. What does reach this ground is the thing nobody advertises: on a rural cooperative distribution system, a multi-day power outage after a major storm is realistic, and that is a genuine tradeoff.

Then the premium inverts too. The state insurance regulator reports an average annual homeowners premium of about $2,292 in Wakulla County against about $2,538 in neighbouring Leon County, which is Tallahassee. Those figures come from the regulator's July 2026 property insurance stability report, premium data as of 31 March 2026, covering policies that include wind coverage. A coastal county coming in cheaper than the metro county next door is not what anyone expects, and the flood finding above is much of the reason: where ground is mapped outside the special flood hazard area, the exposure a carrier prices is wind, and no lender is forcing a second policy on top. New construction helps further, because current-code roof and opening details generally earn wind mitigation credits.

What the new phase actually is

About 42 homesites, each of roughly two acres, plus a small tract held by the homeowners association, on a platted block of roughly 99 acres. That lot size is the most distinctive fact here and a genuinely different product from the production grids that dominate new construction in north Florida. It is also essentially the same lot size as the built-out first phase next door, so you can go and look at what two acres feels like here rather than imagining it.

Two acres buys privacy, room for an outbuilding and distance from your neighbour's windows. It also buys mowing, a longer driveway and a septic field to maintain. Lot counts and sizes here are approximate, from the recorded plat, because there is no published product sheet.

The road is real and visible. Across satellite imagery from 2024 to 2026 this ground goes from woodland with a faint track, to a graded road prism roughly three quarters of a mile long with a branch and turning circles, to a settled road with clearing along the lot frontages. Independent road mapping carries it as a way under construction rather than a finished street, while the first phase's streets a few hundred metres west return as finished paved residential streets.

The permitting matches: an individual state environmental resource permit for this phase was issued in August 2025 and runs to 2030, covering a road and stormwater footprint of about nine acres. The association-held tract is most likely connected to that stormwater, although its function is not documented, so no park is promised here.

What is not there yet: no vertical construction, no assigned addresses, and no published street name. That last one was chased down several routes and genuinely could not be established: the county's emergency-services road file carries no name and no reserved address range on this road in its current edition. The first phase's streets are named and you can walk them. The new one is not, and we will not guess it from the pattern next door.

One builder started it, another is finishing it

The first phase was built out to 23 homes, completed in 2022, and every one of them is now individually owned. Its environmental permit was issued in early 2021 to Golden Construction Company, the applicant of record on that first phase.

The new phase is a separate undertaking by a different company. The applicant of record on its permit, and the owner of the Phase II ground since early 2025, is Pafford Properties and Construction, a local Crawfordville company organised in 2006 and categorised as a custom home builder. They have several named communities in the area, among them Hidden Forest, Gardens of Saralan and Buckhorn Village, and a build-on-your-lot programme in Wakulla County. Separate permit, separate applicant, separate footprint: a true new phase, not a re-permit.

What carries across is the name and the association. One builder started the community, another bought the adjoining ground and is extending it under the same name with the same association. The first phase is delivered proof of what the second is likely to become.

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Keeping the two phases straight, including the prices

Phase I and Phase II are not the same thing, and where that matters most is money. The first phase is built, occupied and trading on the open resale market. A Phase I home here was offered at $417,300 as of October 2026. That is a Phase I resale figure with its as-of date: not a Phase II price, and not an anchor for one.

Nothing in the new phase is for sale: no price, no plan list, no sales office. When pricing is released, the interest list hears it. Until then, here is area context with dates on it.

The 32327 ZIP code showed a median sold price of about $285,000 across the trailing six months and a median asking price of about $344,900, both as of 2 November 2026, and both from an aggregator's tracked sample rather than an official board count, which is how you should read them. Around 108 homes were active with 14 pending on that date. Note where the Phase I resale sits against those medians: well above them. Large lots and 2022-or-newer construction put this subdivision at the upper end of its local market. A Tallahassee-metro median could not be established, so none appears.

Water, septic, taxes and the assessment nobody mentions

Expect central water and a private septic system, and get both confirmed in writing. Central potable water through the regional cooperative system is the normal configuration for platted subdivisions in this corridor. Sewer points the other way: county collection is limited, running to a single treatment plant, and the county actively runs septic-to-sewer conversions elsewhere in the unincorporated county, which is only necessary because septic is the prevailing condition out here. On a two-acre homesite septic is conventional and not a defect, but it is a cost and a siting constraint. Neither service is definitively established for this block, as no service-area boundary is published, so treat both as expected rather than settled.

On taxes, Wakulla County adopted a countywide millage of 7.7000 for the 2026-27 fiscal year, about one and a half percent below the rollback rate, a rate cut in real terms. School, water management and any dependent district levies sit on top, and the full combined millage was not assembled, so no total or effective rate appears here. Nor should anyone apply a county-wide median effective rate to a new home: those medians reflect older stock carrying long-established assessment caps, while a new house is assessed on its completed value. Florida's homestead exemption and the Save Our Homes cap apply once a home is owner-occupied and you qualify, including an additional exemption set by Florida law. That additional exemption is statewide law rather than a county benefit, and the exact figure is not published here because it was not verified for this page.

Then the line item nobody else mentions. No community development district was identified here, phrased deliberately as none identified rather than a proven absence: these assessments are non-ad-valorem, never appear in a property tax code, and a district can be created after a plat is recorded. What was found instead is a county fire protection assessment, county-wide and non-ad-valorem: about $277 per residential dwelling unit for 2026-27, and about $4.16 per acre on vacant land, which is roughly ten dollars a year on an empty two-acre lot.

A real homeowners association exists, registered as a Florida non-profit corporation, and it holds the new phase's common-area tract. It is the same association that serves the first phase. Its dues have not been published, so there is no number here. Ask for the covenants, the budget and the dues schedule.

What day-to-day life looks like out here

This is rural north Florida with a real commute attached, and the tradeoffs are the point. Day-to-day shopping sits in Crawfordville, about ten miles south, with full retail and the serious medical care in Tallahassee, about fourteen miles north.

Schooling is simple in a county this size. The Wakulla County School District serves the whole county, with Wakulla High School and Wakulla Middle School both in Crawfordville. The specific assigned schools could not be established, and at this stage cannot be, because there is no address here to run through a boundary tool. Confirm with the district once addresses exist.

The balance sheet, plainly: more land for the money than the Tallahassee metro will give you, bought with a commute, a septic system, a power supply that can go down for days after a storm, and a rural service level. For the right household that trade is obviously worth it. For one that wants a sidewalk it is obviously not.

Buying pre-construction, when nothing is built yet

Whoever ends up selling homes here, one rule holds: the person at the sales desk works for the seller, not for you. You are allowed, and well advised, to have your own representation, and in almost every case it costs you nothing, because a cooperating commission is budgeted into a new-construction deal whether you bring someone or not.

The catch is timing. Most builders require your agent to register you on your very first visit. Tour alone, sign the visitor card, bring an agent in later, and the builder can refuse to recognise them, and you lose that representation permanently. Get connected first.

In a first-release phase the questions that earn their keep are about what is not finished. Ask what the contract says about delays, and what happens to your deposit and your rate lock if the delivery date slips. Ask whether your homesite backs onto the stormwater tract or onto future ground. Ask whether a community development district has been established since you read this page, and get that in writing. Ask what the association will cost, whether the lot has been filled, and where the septic field will sit on a two-acre lot, because on acreage that one decision shapes your yard for the life of the house. And read the addenda, because that is where the real terms live.

Deposits deserve their own paragraph. In Florida a builder selling a home to be built generally has to hold the portion of your deposit above ten percent of the price in escrow until closing, unless statutory conditions let the builder use it. That is real protection and narrower than buyers assume, because the first ten percent is not covered. Read the escrow language, ask who holds the money, and ask when it comes back.

Inspections matter more on new construction than people expect, not less. You are entitled to your own inspector, independently of the county inspections, and the useful points are before the drywall goes up, at the pre-closing walkthrough, and again before the warranty period runs out. On a rural acreage lot, add the septic system and the water service. And write down what you were told verbally and when: lot layouts, phase boundaries and timelines can all shift, which means anything you are shown at a first release is a snapshot, not a promise.

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