Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of a Wisconsin 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 72 counties render.
- Coverage
- Statewide, from county records
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Driftless coulees and northwoods swamp.
Wisconsin sells two very different kinds of land. In the Driftless it is coulee farms with steep sidehills and bottom ground. Up north it is forties bought for deer, where the value is cover type and swamp and what public land abuts. Neither reads from a town road.
County GIS parcel data is what the boundary is drawn from, so coverage here is complete rather than partial. A forty in Iron County renders in the same ten minutes as a lot in Dane County, and swamp, popple cuts, coulees and bottom 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. Popple cut on the west half, cedar swamp on the low end, and a town road along the north line.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Wisconsin delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel number, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Wisconsin 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 72 renders. Send the APN and it comes back the same ten minutes.
Asked by people selling Wisconsin ground.
Which Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin listing?
Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service, so this is not our fee. A Wisconsin pilot quotes the shoot plus the drive, and a forty up north is a four hour drive from most of them. 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 cover type on a hunting forty?
Broadly, yes. Popple cuts, oak, cedar swamp, openings and old logging trails read differently from above, and the boundary shows which of it is inside your line. Buyers use it to find bedding and edges before walking it.
Will coulee sidehill and bottom ground separate on a Driftless farm?
Yes. The contour map shows the sidehill and the flat bottom, and the imagery shows what is worked, pastured or wooded. On a coulee farm the split between tillable bottom and steep sidehill is most of the price.
How recent is the imagery on a Wisconsin parcel?
Most Wisconsin counties are flown on a one to three year cycle, and the render date is stamped on the pack. A popple cut from last winter or a new trail will not appear until the next flight. Elevation data behind the contour map is refreshed on its own schedule.
What exactly comes back for a Wisconsin APN?
The pack is 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 also brings road frontage views, infrared, a social kit and the full resolution files. Wisconsin buyers use the top down for cover and the contour map in the coulees.
Got a Wisconsin 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.