Guide · Future land use
Florida future land use map by county: where each map lives and what ours covers
There is no single future land use map of Florida. State law makes every county and every city keep a comprehensive plan with a future land use map, so the map that counts for a parcel belongs to whichever government has it: the county outside city limits, the city inside. Map Views shows future land use in all 67 counties, on 97.2% of the state's parcels, from 373 local plans gathered in 2020; a handful of cities, such as Sanibel and Neptune Beach, are missing.
Who draws the map
Under section 163.3167, each local government shall maintain a comprehensive plan. Section 163.3177(6)(a) says the plan's future land use element sets the distribution of land uses and that it be shown on a land use map or map series. Every county and every city keeps its own.
One rule covers the gap when a new city forms: the county's plan is controlling until the new city adopts one of its own (163.3167(3)). Changes go to a list of reviewing agencies under section 163.3184, among them the state land planning agency, which section 163.3164 names as the Department of Commerce.
Finding the adopted map for one parcel
- Name the government. Inside city limits it is the city; outside, the county. A mailing city is not proof: it often covers unincorporated land.
- Open its planning or growth management pages. Look for the comprehensive plan, then the Future Land Use Element and its map series, often called the FLUM. Many post a PDF map plus an online viewer.
- Read the map's date and the amendments since. Plans change by ordinance, parcel by parcel. The planning office keeps the list.
- Read the category's text. The density or intensity it allows sits in the element's policies, not on the map.
How our layer is built
Our future land use comes from one statewide compilation: 1,114,734 polygons from 373 local plans, gathered between January and July 2020. Counties fall into three shapes:
- One map for the whole county. In Miami-Dade and Broward, every polygon in our copy comes from the county's own map, cities included. Cities there also adopt plans of their own, so inside a city check the city's map too.
- Many plans side by side. Palm Beach holds 39 plans, Pinellas 25, Polk and Volusia 18 each, Brevard 17.
- The county plus a few cities. Most rural counties: two to four plans.
All 67 counties
Plans counts the county and city plans that appear in our layer for that county. The share is the parcels on the 2026 roll with a future land use on our map. The last column is the most recent edit date any polygon in that county carries in the compilation. Measured on 1 November 2026.
| County | Parcels | Plans | With future land use | Newest edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alachua | 109,378 | 10 | 98.4% | Oct 2019 |
| Baker | 13,182 | 3 | 94.4% | Jan 2020 |
| Bay | 131,060 | 8 | 97.3% | Jul 2018 |
| Bradford | 15,883 | 3 | 93.0% | Jan 2019 |
| Brevard | 350,710 | 17 | 98.9% | Mar 2020 |
| Broward | 754,549 | 1 | 99.6% | Jul 2020 |
| Calhoun | 13,294 | 3 | 85.9% | Jan 2020 |
| Charlotte | 222,623 | 2 | 98.7% | Jan 2020 |
| Citrus | 147,845 | 3 | 98.8% | Aug 2019 |
| Clay | 105,837 | 4 | 95.3% | Jan 2019 |
| Collier | 297,635 | 3 | 97.4% | Oct 2019 |
| Columbia | 37,646 | 3 | 98.7% | Mar 2017 |
| DeSoto | 20,199 | 2 | 98.7% | May 2020 |
| Dixie | 16,514 | 2 | 94.4% | Jun 2014 |
| Duval | 404,023 | 3 | 97.1% | Oct 2018 |
| Escambia | 171,483 | 3 | 93.0% | Feb 2020 |
| Flagler | 89,043 | 5 | 95.8% | Dec 2019 |
| Franklin | 18,561 | 3 | 95.6% | May 2020 |
| Gadsden | 27,927 | 7 | 96.3% | May 2020 |
| Gilchrist | 14,763 | 4 | 93.7% | Jul 2020 |
| Glades | 11,648 | 2 | 96.6% | Mar 2015 |
| Gulf | 20,168 | 3 | 91.8% | Mar 2020 |
| Hamilton | 13,197 | 4 | 88.6% | Mar 2019 |
| Hardee | 15,312 | 4 | 94.8% | Mar 2019 |
| Hendry | 35,810 | 3 | 99.3% | May 2016 |
| Hernando | 120,408 | 2 | 98.0% | May 2019 |
| Highlands | 112,748 | 4 | 99.4% | Dec 2019 |
| Hillsborough | 527,636 | 4 | 99.0% | Dec 2019 |
| Holmes | 14,631 | 2 | 90.8% | Jul 2020 |
| Indian River | 95,446 | 5 | 94.2% | Feb 2020 |
| Jackson | 40,301 | 11 | 97.3% | May 2020 |
| Jefferson | 12,353 | 2 | 94.6% | May 2020 |
| Lafayette | 7,463 | 2 | 95.3% | May 2017 |
| Lake | 215,806 | 15 | 97.0% | Mar 2020 |
| Lee | 561,559 | 5 | 96.8% | Jan 2020 |
| Leon | 111,379 | 1 | 99.0% | Aug 2019 |
| Levy | 47,381 | 2 | 83.1% | Jun 2017 |
| Liberty | 6,012 | 2 | 95.6% | Feb 2020 |
| Madison | 16,483 | 2 | 93.0% | Not dated |
| Manatee | 236,531 | 7 | 93.6% | Dec 2019 |
| Marion | 286,148 | 6 | 98.8% | Mar 2020 |
| Martin | 98,197 | 3 | 94.9% | Oct 2019 |
| Miami-Dade | 938,308 | 1 | 99.7% | Apr 2020 |
| Monroe | 89,162 | 4 | 93.7% | Feb 2020 |
| Nassau | 59,943 | 3 | 93.1% | Oct 2015 |
| Okaloosa | 113,908 | 9 | 96.8% | Jun 2020 |
| Okeechobee | 31,383 | 2 | 98.3% | Sep 2019 |
| Orange | 493,489 | 13 | 98.7% | Mar 2020 |
| Osceola | 214,335 | 4 | 96.2% | Apr 2020 |
| Palm Beach | 657,490 | 39 | 98.0% | Apr 2016 |
| Pasco | 335,738 | 6 | 91.7% | Jan 2020 |
| Pinellas | 433,770 | 25 | 98.9% | Dec 2019 |
| Polk | 435,650 | 18 | 96.9% | Jan 2020 |
| Putnam | 98,036 | 6 | 98.7% | Apr 2020 |
| St. Johns | 168,448 | 3 | 89.3% | Dec 2019 |
| St. Lucie | 192,346 | 4 | 96.8% | Dec 2019 |
| Santa Rosa | 122,244 | 3 | 87.9% | Oct 2018 |
| Sarasota | 307,177 | 5 | 98.3% | Feb 2020 |
| Seminole | 179,705 | 8 | 99.5% | Mar 2020 |
| Sumter | 105,716 | 6 | 93.7% | Mar 2020 |
| Suwannee | 39,023 | 3 | 81.0% | Mar 2013 |
| Taylor | 19,729 | 2 | 94.1% | Nov 2018 |
| Union | 7,111 | 2 | 92.7% | Dec 2017 |
| Volusia | 310,941 | 18 | 98.5% | Mar 2020 |
| Wakulla | 26,729 | 3 | 97.2% | May 2020 |
| Walton | 94,601 | 3 | 92.6% | Nov 2018 |
| Washington | 46,472 | 6 | 93.6% | Dec 2019 |
A share below 100% usually means parcels with no outline on our map, not a missing plan: St. Johns has 150,717 outlines and only 227 of them lack a land use; in Suwannee, 48.
The cities our layer lacks
Of 10,486,065 parcel outlines, 65,921 have no future land use under them. Most sit in a few cities whose plans never reached the compilation. Counted by the city in the site address:
- Sanibel (Lee): 8,383 parcels.
- Levy's towns: Williston 1,354, Chiefland 1,065, Inglis 928, Cedar Key 853, Bronson 700, Yankeetown 499. Levy's part of the layer holds only Fanning Springs and a few county polygons, which is why the county sits at 83.1%.
- Westlake (Palm Beach): 4,028. Palm Beach's plans in the compilation were last edited in April 2016, and Westlake's plan is not among them.
- Indian River Shores 3,851, Neptune Beach 2,962, Key Colony Beach 1,533, Sewall's Point 1,020, Baldwin 894.
For those, go to the city hall's planning page; inside a city with its own plan, the city's map is the one to read.
Where this stops
- Age. The newest edit in a county can be years old: April 2016 in Palm Beach, June 2014 in Dixie, March 2013 in Suwannee. Any amendment since is missing.
- Translation. Next to each local category the layer carries a statewide class. The local name and the plan's own text bind; the class is a guide. How the two rules fit together is in future land use vs zoning.
- Zoning is separate. We map zoning in fewer counties than land use: see the zoning map by county.
On Map Views
Turn on the future land use layer and each category is outlined with its code over the street map or an aerial. Open a parcel and the report names the local category, the plan it comes from and its share of the lot when a boundary crosses it. Search can keep only the parcels in the land use classes you pick. For one county read in full, see Orange County zoning and future land use.
The adopted comprehensive plan of each city and county, with every amendment, is the authority on a parcel's future land use. Our layer is a 2020 statewide compilation of those plans; confirm the current category with the planning office before you rely on it.