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Check land before you commit.
Free site screening for solar, wind, and battery storage. Check any U.S. spot using sourced public data, then share the one-page report.
Your land check also generates a Desktop Critical Issues Analysis (CIA) from the same findings. Open it from your results to print or save as a PDF.
Or click the land on the map below. Rural addresses can land on the road rather than the field, so check the pin. Addresses are matched by the U.S. Census Bureau's geocoder, place names by OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Loading the map… If it does not appear, type coordinates above and press Check this land.
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What a finished report looks like, from a check run on October 20, 2026; every line links to its agency source in the real thing. Run this spot live →
What the land report checks
In your results, open The facts to find these fields. The names below match the report; some fields appear only in supported states. Each available finding links to its public data source.
- Location: the county and state identified for the point you checked.
- Public Land Survey location, Appraisal legal description, Legal description (parcel record), or Survey location: the location reference available for that state and parcel. This is not a surveyed property description.
- Parcel: recorded acreage, acreage measured from the mapped outline when available, and parcel IDs. Shown in Texas and other supported states; coverage varies.
- Farmland (soil): the USDA soil name and farmland classification available at the point.
- Flood zone (FEMA effective map): the current mapped flood zone, special flood hazard status, and whether digital FEMA mapping covers the point.
- Flood map, next version: the preliminary FEMA flood zone at the point, if a preliminary map is available.
- FEMA estimated extent (Texas BLE): whether the point falls within FEMA's estimated flood extents in a covered Texas study area. These estimates are not regulatory flood zones.
- Texas flood planning data (TWDB): mapped flood hazards and mapping gaps at the point, in Texas.
- Nearest mapped stream: the nearest USGS-mapped stream within about half a mile, its distance, and the point's height above its channel when elevation data is available.
- Wetlands: mapped wetlands at the point or within about 1,000 feet, from USFWS.
- Nearest power line: distance to the nearest mapped transmission line within five miles, plus voltage and listed owner when available. Proximity does not establish connection capacity.
- Critical habitat: USFWS-designated critical habitat within one mile.
- Historic sites: National Register listings within half a mile, including whether the point is inside a mapped listing boundary.
- Ground: elevation and approximate slope sampled 100 meters around the point, from USGS.
Checking… means a lookup is still pending. Could not check means that finding is unavailable; neither means the site is clear. These checks describe a point and the stated nearby search areas, not every part of a parcel.
What stands out summarizes the findings as flags, cautions, and unknowns. Rules here shows state approval and grid information. Risks and context for your county and Permits for this spot appear when relevant data is available; county context is separate from the point checks and the verdict.
The standout test at the top of each report is a first-pass rule of thumb, not a developer's siting criteria: a mapped transmission line within half a mile, and more than 500 acres. In Texas and 26 other states the parcel record fills the acreage in; elsewhere, type it.
The Open Desktop CIA button near the top of your results rearranges the same findings into the twelve sections a consultant's Critical Issues Analysis follows including the field studies and filings each finding points to, ready to print or save as a PDF. It is generated in your browser from the report; nothing is sent to us.
It is a free first screen: general information, not a survey, and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. It is meant to show the red flags early, before an option is signed or money goes into a site study.
Who it is for
Developers, land agents, and project managers who want a fast, sourced public-data screen of a site before the site visit, the option, or the study fee: the same checks a diligence package starts with, done in a minute and shareable as a link.