DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in Alaska, enter the borough and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. The pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in Alaska. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map and a context map showing how far the nearest road is, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of Alaska
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Some of it has no road, and that is the point.
Alaska recreational parcels sell to buyers who cannot get there before closing. Remote lots off the highway system, cabin sites on a lake, tracts where access is a winter trail or a float plane. For most of them a photograph from the ground does not exist.
The context map and the 3D views show what a buyer is actually getting: the drainage, the treeline, the water, and how far the nearest road really is.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel, everything below. Spruce and muskeg, a lake along the west line, and the nearest road three miles out.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Alaska delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Alaska land actually trades.
These are among the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any Alaska borough or census area works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order an Alaska parcel.
- Coverage
- Any Alaska borough works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Remote wilderness acreage, lake and river frontage, spruce and birch forest, tundra, homestead-style recreational parcels, and lots in the road system around the larger towns.
- Typical uses
- Remote cabin sites, recreation and hunting access, fishing and lake frontage, and homesites near the road system.
- Reads well from above
- Lakes, rivers and muskeg, spruce against birch, trails and airstrips, and how far a tract sits from the nearest road. Without a road, the lake or river often is the access.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the parcel or tax ID on the assessment record where a borough exists. Land outside organized boroughs is recorded through the state's recording districts.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting an Alaska tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling Alaska ground.
Which Alaska boroughs can you do?
Any Alaska borough works. Send the borough and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
Can DirtFlight help sell remote Alaska recreational land?
Remote wilderness acreage, lake and river frontage, spruce and birch forest, tundra, homestead-style recreational parcels, and lots in the road system around the larger towns. Typical uses there: remote cabin sites, recreation and hunting access, fishing and lake frontage, and homesites near the road system.
Does DirtFlight work on parcels with no road access?
Those are the ones it helps most, because nothing has to be reached on the ground. The imagery and the context map show the trail, the water, the treeline and the real distance to the nearest road, so a buyer can judge access honestly.
How current is imagery this far north?
Coverage and refresh cycles vary more in Alaska than in the lower forty eight. The render date is stamped on the pack, and when a tract falls in a thinner coverage area we say so rather than pass it off as current.
How do I enter an Alaska parcel, with or without a borough?
In Alaska, the number to look for is the parcel or tax ID on the assessment record where a borough exists. Land outside organized boroughs is recorded through the state's recording districts. Enter the county and the APN as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What can a buyer make out from above on a remote Alaska tract?
Lakes, rivers and muskeg, spruce against birch, trails and airstrips, and how far a tract sits from the nearest road. Without a road, the lake or river often is the access. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your Alaska parcel today.
Send the borough and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.