Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of a Virginia 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 95 counties render.
- Coverage
- Statewide, from county records
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Mountain, piedmont, and tidewater flat.
Virginia runs from the Allegheny front to the Chesapeake, and the buyer's question moves with it. In the mountains it is slope, access and adjoining national forest. In the piedmont it is timber and frontage. Down in tidewater it is drainage. One aerial pack covers all three.
County GIS parcel data is what the boundary is drawn from, so coverage here is complete rather than partial. A tract in Bath County renders in the same ten minutes as a lot in Fairfax County, and slope, timber and wet ground read clearly from above.
Boundaries are approximate, from public parcel data, and are not a survey.
One APN. Everything below.
One parcel, one APN. Hardwood on the mountain side, a cleared bench midway, and a state secondary road along the front.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Virginia delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel number, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Virginia 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 95 renders. Send the APN and it comes back the same ten minutes.
Asked by people selling Virginia ground.
Which Virginia 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 Virginia listing?
Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service, so this is not our fee. A Virginia pilot quotes the shoot plus the drive, and a mountain tract west of Staunton adds a weather day on top. 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 slope and access show on a mountain tract?
The contour map shows slope and the access view marks road frontage and the visible track in, which together is what mountain buyers use to judge a tract before driving out. Legal access is a title question we do not answer.
Will adjoining national forest be visible?
The context map shows what surrounds the parcel, which is how buyers here check whether a tract backs up to national forest. Neighboring ownership should be confirmed with the county.
How recent is the imagery on a Virginia parcel?
The licensed coverage for Virginia is usually one to three years old, and every pack carries its render date. A thinning, a new grade cut or a spring clearing will not appear until the next flight. Anything that changed since the flight will not be in it.
What exactly comes back for a Virginia APN?
The outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a contour map, a context map and a parcel info sheet, sized for listing sites and for print. Paydirt adds road frontage views, infrared, a social kit and the full resolution files. Virginia buyers read slope off the contour map and access off the access view.
Got a Virginia 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.