Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of a Hawaii parcel, enter the county and the APN. The boundary is drawn from county GIS parcel data and the pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video and a contour map that shows the gulch and the pitch. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and all 5 counties render.
- Coverage
- Statewide, from the state parcel layer
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Ag lots, lava zones and gulches.
Hawaii vacant land sells in ag and rural lots, much of it on the Big Island, where the questions are lava zone, whether the lot is cleared or in closed ohia forest, and how a gulch cuts across it. Mainland buyers are often buying from photographs alone.
County GIS parcel data is what the boundary is drawn from, so coverage here is complete rather than partial. The outlined top down shows cleared ground against forest, and the contour map shows the gulch and the pitch, which is what makes two identical looking three acre lots very different.
Boundaries are approximate, from public parcel data, and are not a survey.
One APN. Everything below.
One parcel, one APN, everything below. A tract that runs from ocean surf to 3,886 ft on the south flank of Haleakala, cut the whole way by erosion gullies, with 3,250 ft of ranch road crossing it.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Hawaii delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel number, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Hawaii land actually trades.
These are the ones land buyers ask for most, each with its own page.
Do not see your county? Every one of the 5 renders. Send the APN and it comes back the same ten minutes.
Asked by people selling Hawaii ground.
Which Hawaii counties can you do?
Send the island and the TMK. Hawaii publishes one statewide parcel layer covering all five counties, so every island is drawn from the same records. Coverage varies: some states publish one statewide layer, others leave it county by county. If yours is one where the records are not public, you hear it from us before anything is charged.
How much does a drone photographer cost for a rural Hawaii listing?
Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service, so this is not our fee. A pilot here quotes a shoot fee per property, and on a three acre lot in Puna that fee is a real percentage of the sale price. Dirt Flight renders the parcel from licensed aerial imagery and public elevation data instead of sending anyone up in the air, so there is no travel charge, no scheduling and no weather day.
Can you show whether the lot is cleared or in forest?
Yes. Cleared pads, old orchard rows and closed ohia canopy read plainly from above, and the boundary shows how much of each falls inside the lines.
Does it show the gulch and the road situation?
The contour map shows the gulch and the fall across the lot, and the imagery shows whether the road at the front is paved, cinder, or still just a line on the subdivision map.
How recent is the imagery on a Hawaii parcel?
Somewhere between one and three years for most Hawaii ground, dated on the pack. A new lava flow, a clearing or a fresh planting may not appear until the next flight. Contour data behind the elevation views refreshes separately.
What exactly comes back for a Hawaii APN?
An outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a contour map, a context map and a parcel info sheet. Paydirt adds road frontage views, infrared, a social kit and the full resolution files. Hawaii buyers work from the contour map and the context map. Hawaii buyers work from the contour map and the context map.
Got a Hawaii parcel under contract?
Send the county and the APN. If your invite is not open yet we will still look at the first one by hand.