Aerial 3D view of a rural New York land parcel with the boundary outlined

Aerial photos for New York land listings, with the boundary drawn.

Send a New York APN and the county it sits in, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. DirtFlight renders the full aerial pack in about ten minutes. A hunting tract in Sullivan County and a farm in Cayuga County come back the same way, in the same ten minutes.

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Coverage: All of New York
Turnaround: About 10 minutes
Travel charge: None, ever
Ways in: Number, map or file

The short answer

Updated October 2026

DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in New York, enter the county 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 New York. 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, 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 New York
Turnaround: About 10 minutes
Travel charge: None, ever
Imagery age: One to three years

Why New York is different

Hills, hardwood, and old field growing back in.

Upstate tracts are mostly reverting farmland: hedgerow, old pasture filling with brush, hardwood on the steep, a seasonal road in. Buyers want the shape of the whole thing, the openings, and where the ridge sits relative to the line.

A tract in Greene County renders in the same ten minutes as a lot in Erie County, and old field, hedgerow and hardwood separate clearly from above.

Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.

Rendered in New York

One parcel. Everything below.

One parcel. Old pasture filling in on the flat, hardwood up the ridge, and a seasonal town road along the north line.

Outlined top down aerial photo of a New York land parcel with the boundary drawn in green — Outlined top down

The boundary a buyer can read

Contour map of a New York land parcel showing elevation relief — Contour map

Access view of a New York land parcel with the road frontage marked — Access and road frontage

Also in the Dirt pack, $29: four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, in full resolution. The contour map and the access view above are Paydirt, $79. See a full listing page →

Everything in the pack

This is the whole New York delivery.

Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.

Boundary top-down of a New York land parcel — Boundary top-down

3D from the south of a New York land parcel — 3D from the south

3D from the north of a New York land parcel — 3D from the north

3D from the west of a New York land parcel — 3D from the west

3D from the east of a New York land parcel — 3D from the east

Contour map of a New York land parcel — Contour map

Road frontage of a New York land parcel — Road frontage

Access and frontage marked of a New York land parcel — Access and frontage marked

Land health, infrared of a New York land parcel — Land health, infrared

Context map of a New York land parcel — Context map

Pop-out of a New York land parcel — Pop-out

Spotlight top-down of a New York land parcel — Spotlight top-down

Spotlight, south of a New York land parcel — Spotlight, south

Spotlight, north of a New York land parcel — Spotlight, north

Spotlight, west of a New York land parcel — Spotlight, west

Spotlight, east of a New York land parcel — Spotlight, east

What You're Buying slide with callouts for a New York land parcel — What You're Buying

Pop-out of a New York land parcel lifted out of the ground with dirt walls — Pop-out, dirt walls

Utilities map for a New York land parcel — Utilities

18-second orbit

Satellite zoom, state to parcel

New York counties

Where New York land actually trades.

These are the counties land buyers ask about most.

Greene CountyCatskill
Otsego CountyCooperstown
Madison CountyWampsville
Steuben CountyBath
Wyoming CountyWarsaw
Cattaraugus CountyLittle Valley
Sullivan CountyMonticello
Lewis CountyLowville
Saint Lawrence CountyCanton
Franklin CountyMalone
Cayuga CountyAuburn
Schoharie CountySchoharie

Any New York county 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.

New York at a glance

What to know before you order a New York parcel.

Coverage: Any New York county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
Common land: Upstate woodland and old fields, Adirondack and Catskill acreage, farmland, hillside pasture, and lake and stream frontage.
Typical uses: Hunting and recreation, camp and cabin sites, woodlots and farms, and homesites.
Reads well from above: Forest openings and old field, ridgelines, wetland, streams, and the town road or right of way that reaches a tract.
Your parcel number: The number to look for is the tax map number on the assessment record.
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 a New York 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.

Also: drone photography vs DirtFlight · what land aerial photography costs · land listing photos checklist

New York questions

Asked by people selling New York ground.

Which New York counties can you do?

Any New York county works. Send the county 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.

Which New York tracts does DirtFlight suit, upstate or the parks?

Upstate woodland and old fields, Adirondack and Catskill acreage, farmland, hillside pasture, and lake and stream frontage. Typical uses there: hunting and recreation, camp and cabin sites, woodlots and farms, and homesites.

Will the openings and old field show up?

Clearly. Old pasture, brush, hedgerow and mature hardwood all read differently from above, and the boundary shows which of them is on your side of the line. Hunting buyers use it to find the edges.

Does this work for tracts inside the Adirondack or Catskill Parks?

Yes, and the render works the same. The context map shows what surrounds the parcel including adjoining state land. Land use rules inside the parks are their own matter and we do not interpret them.

New York assessing is local, so what do I enter for a parcel?

In New York, the number to look for is the tax map number on the assessment record. 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 does New York woodland show from above?

Forest openings and old field, ridgelines, wetland, streams, and the town road or right of way that reaches a tract. 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 New York parcel today.

Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.

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