Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of a Pennsylvania 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. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and all 67 counties render.
- Coverage
- Statewide, from county records
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Ridge and valley, and most of it wooded.
Pennsylvania tracts sell on timber and hunting. What a buyer wants is where the ridge runs, how the hollow drains, where the old logging road comes in, and what abuts, especially state game land. Under a closed hardwood canopy none of it is visible on foot.
County GIS parcel data is what the boundary is drawn from, so coverage here is complete rather than partial. A tract in Potter County renders in the same ten minutes as a lot in Chester County, and old cuts, benches and hollows read clearly from above.
Boundaries are approximate, from public parcel data, and are not a survey.
One APN. Everything below.
One parcel, one APN. Mature hardwood across the ridge, a bench with an old camp clearing, and a township road along the front.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Pennsylvania delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel number, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Pennsylvania 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 67 renders. Send the APN and it comes back the same ten minutes.
Asked by people selling Pennsylvania ground.
Which Pennsylvania counties can you do?
Send the county and the APN and we go straight to that county's own parcel 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 Pennsylvania listing?
Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service, so this is not our fee. A Pennsylvania pilot quotes the shoot plus the drive, and a camp tract up in the Northern Tier is a long haul for one job. 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.
Will old cuts and timber age show up?
Broadly, yes. Recent cuts, older cuts and mature hardwood read differently from above, and the boundary shows which of them is inside your line. It is not a cruise and does not estimate board feet.
Will adjoining state game land be visible?
The context map shows what surrounds the parcel, which is how most Pennsylvania buyers check whether the camp backs up to public ground. Neighboring ownership should still be confirmed with the county.
How recent is the imagery on a Pennsylvania parcel?
One to three years old, typically, with the render date printed on the pack. A cut from last winter or a new camp clearing will not appear until the next flight. We would rather say that plainly than let a buyer assume the image is from last week.
What exactly comes back for a Pennsylvania APN?
Everything in one download: outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, contour map, context map and parcel info sheet. Paydirt adds road frontage views, infrared, a social kit and full resolution files. Pennsylvania buyers use the context map to check the game land line.
Got a Pennsylvania 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.