Local Conditions
Stucco in South Florida: Block Walls, Salt Air and Storms
South Florida is block country. Across the 26 cities with a Stucco HQ page, the 2026 tax roll counts 434,206 single-family homes, and 98.5% of them have concrete or block walls. On block, stucco goes on in two coats bonded straight to the wall, so a lasting repair is cut back to sound stucco and bonded the same way, not skimmed over the old surface.
The age of the homes changes a lot from city to city. The typical home in Fort Lauderdale was built in 1958 and in Hollywood in 1960, while in Weston it dates from 1996 and in Parkland from 2004. Older stucco has usually been patched more than once, and newer communities often have HOA rules for color and texture. Your contractor matches the finish either way.
Then there is the weather. Hurricane season runs June 1 through November 30, and Broward is one of only two Florida counties, with Miami-Dade, in the Florida Building Code's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, which carries the code's strictest wind rules. Homes near the ocean and the Intracoastal also take salt air, which wears paint and window sealant faster, and that is often where water first gets behind stucco.