Mosquito Control — Brevard County, Florida

Brevard County Mosquito Control is a county department, run from 800 Perimeter Road in Titusville with a South Area facility in Valkaria, that monitors, prevents and treats mosquitoes countywide.

The department describes its work as countywide surveillance, prevention and treatment, plus spray and treatment information and guidance on prevention for residents and horse owners (Brevard County Mosquito Control). Its director is Joseph Faella. The work is done by field crews: field staff work 6 to 7 days a week, from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., doing field counts and trap monitoring, larvae dipping and larviciding, and adulticiding, which means killing adult mosquitoes.

Two buildings serve the county. The North Area Mosquito Control Facility is at 800 Perimeter Road in Titusville, and the South Area Mosquito Control Facility is at 3 Pilots' Place in Valkaria (Brevard County press release, May 8, 2025). Phone service is split at Wickham Road: (321) 264-5032 for properties north of Wickham Rd. and (321) 952-4523 for properties south of it (Mosquito Control Department). A resident in Palm Bay or Grant-Valkaria checks which side of Wickham Road the address is on before calling.

Brevard County Mosquito Control posts scheduled spray areas on its Spray Area Map and on a recorded extension of (321) 264-5032 that is updated daily after 4:00 p.m.

A Melbourne or Palm Bay resident who wants to know whether a treatment is scheduled nearby has two county tools: the Spray Area Map linked from the department page, and the Ext. 1 recording (Brevard County Mosquito Control). Because the recording is updated daily after 4:00 p.m., a call after that time gives the latest posted schedule.

Weather can cancel a planned treatment. Treatments stop during active rainfall and when winds exceed 10 to 15 mph, whether by truck or aerial (Mosquito Control Department). That means a scheduled treatment can be called off by rain or wind.

Overnight spraying was part of the response to the September 2026 health advisory. In its September 3, 2026 advisory, the Florida Department of Health in Brevard County said it and Brevard County Mosquito Control were coordinating enhanced monitoring for mosquitoes and diseases, targeted mosquito treatment and overnight spraying (DOH-Brevard, September 3, 2026).

Mosquitoes rebound after a Brevard County Mosquito Control spray because salt marsh mosquito eggs wait in damp soil and hatch within 5 to 7 days of rising water, so a new brood can emerge the day after a successful treatment.

The county's own explanation starts with the eggs. Salt marsh mosquitoes lay their eggs in moist to dry soil just above the current water level; when rain or tides raise the water, the submerged eggs hatch in 5 to 7 days (Brevard County Mosquito Control). The numbers are large: more than 20,000 mosquito eggs can come from 1 square inch of salt marsh soil.

Control therefore has two parts. Districts rely on chemical control and mosquito impoundments to keep salt marsh mosquitoes down, according to Brevard County Mosquito Control (Mosquito Control Department). Even when treatments have a kill effect of 90 percent, new broods can hatch the following day, which can make it look as though no treatment took place. For a homeowner in Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach or Melbourne Beach after high water or a summer storm, that is the reason a neighborhood can be treated and still see new mosquitoes soon after.

Larviciding is the other half of the field routine. Crews dip for larvae and treat them before they become flying adults, alongside the adult treatments (Brevard County Mosquito Control). The department also promotes mosquitofish and tire disposal, covered below.

Brevard County Mosquito Control is funded by its own property tax line on Brevard bills, 0.1340 mills for 2025-26, which the Florida Department of Revenue shows raising $9,839,076.

The Brevard County Tax Collector lists Brevard Mosquito Control among the county taxing authorities on the bill, with the phone number (321) 633-2153 (Brevard County Tax Collector). The Department of Revenue lists that levy separately from the Brevard County BCC levy, so the mosquito millage is its own entry.

The table shows the Brevard Mosquito Control levy rising 5.4 percent from 2024-25, at a rate 2.2 percent above the rolled-back rate (Florida Department of Revenue, Table 1). At 0.1340 mills, the levy works out to 13.4 cents per $1,000 of taxable value, or $13.40 on a Brevard home with $100,000 of taxable value.

State law adds a budget calendar for programs that take part in state arthropod control. Under Section 388.271, Florida Statutes, a participating program files a tentative integrated arthropod management plan and tentative detailed budget with the department by July 15, and submits a certified budget by September 30 (Section 388.271, Florida Statutes). Whether and how much state money reaches Brevard County Mosquito Control was not in the sources read for this page.

Brevard County Mosquito Control runs tire amnesty days and mosquitofish distribution to cut breeding sites, and its 2025 Tire Amnesty Week took residents' old tires free at its Titusville and Valkaria facilities.

The 2025 Tire Amnesty Week ran from May 19 through May 23, with drop-off from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the North Area facility at 800 Perimeter Road in Titusville and the South Area facility at 3 Pilots' Place in Valkaria (Brevard County press release, May 8, 2025). The rules were strict: Brevard County residents only, a valid driver's license as proof of residency, up to 20 tires per household, no rims, and no commercial businesses.

The program was a three-way partnership of Brevard County Mosquito Control, Brevard County Solid Waste Management and the Florida Department of Health in Brevard (press release). The county's reasoning is simple: stagnant water in discarded tires creates an ideal environment for mosquito larvae, and both Titusville and Valkaria drop-off sites served that purpose.

The department invites residents to ask about future Tire Amnesty Days, mosquitofish distribution and other outreach and education events across the county (Brevard County Mosquito Control). Dates are announced by the county, so a Palm Bay or Melbourne resident checks with the department rather than assuming a repeat of the May schedule.

The September 3, 2026 DOH-Brevard advisory, issued after several sentinel chickens tested positive for West Nile virus, put the county health office and Brevard County Mosquito Control into joint enhanced monitoring, targeted treatment and overnight spraying.

The Florida Department of Health in Brevard County issued the advisory on September 3, 2026 (DOH-Brevard advisory).

Under the advisory, DOH-Brevard and Brevard County Mosquito Control are coordinating surveillance and prevention, with enhanced monitoring, targeted mosquito treatment and overnight spraying (DOH-Brevard). The same notice says the state health department keeps statewide surveillance for mosquito-borne illnesses and asks Floridians to report dead birds to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Questions about a spray in a Brevard neighborhood still go to the Mosquito Control lines in Titusville and Valkaria.

Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the Brevard County Mosquito Control Department website, with the Florida Department of Health in Brevard County, the Florida Department of Revenue and the Brevard County Tax Collector.