ParcelScout
Cheap raw-land listings, scored honestly. Paste a URL or address; ParcelScout pulls public records, queries FEMA / state water / county GIS, and returns a tier, a composite score, and the reasons — never a probability of appreciation, never a "buy this" verdict.
Five-acre listings are a minefield. ParcelScout walks it.
Half the cheap raw-land listings on the market are landlocked, in a floodway, tax-delinquent, or in an AMA with no water right. The other half look identical at first glance. ParcelScout does the boring public-records work — across FEMA flood layers, state water boundaries, county tax records, parcel ownership — and tells you which is which.
Paste → match → enrich → score.
1. Paste a URL or address
From Zillow, LandWatch, Land.com, a county Treasurer's site, or just an address. ParcelScout geocodes it and matches it to a real parcel by APN — the canonical identifier the county uses.
2. Enrich from public records
Point-query the agencies that own the polygons: FEMA NFHL for flood zone and floodway, state water authority for AMA/INA boundary and community-water-system service area, county assessor for zoning and assessed value. Distances to growth-city boundary, major employer, paved road, and the nearest planned interchange come next.
3. Score it deterministically
A pure, testable scoring engine combines six subscores — growth, water, access, price, infrastructure, title — into a composite 0–100. A separate confidence value flags how much of that score came from authoritative sources vs. inferred. Hard knockouts (landlocked, in floodway, in an over-allocated AMA with no water) override the composite entirely.
A tier, a score, a confidence, and the reasons.
Tier (A / B / C / DQ)
A heuristic bucket. A = high composite and high confidence. B = solid composite. C = weak. DQ = a knockout fired and no score can rescue it. Tiers are heuristic — explicitly labeled that way in the UI — not a probability of anything.
Composite + confidence, separately
The composite is a 0–100 weighted blend of the six subscores. Confidence is 0–1 and tracks how much of the input came from authoritative sources (gov GIS, county records) versus aggregator data versus scraped listing text. A 78/0.4 reads as "promising but unverified" — different from a 78/0.9.
Knockout reasons + risk codes
Disqualifying findings are surfaced first: no recorded legal access, tax delinquent 3+ years, in FEMA floodway, in an over-allocated AMA with no water provider and no well feasibility. Below that, the top positives and top risks, each tied back to the underlying record.
Standing "order a title report" flag
Recorded access, liens, and CC&Rs cannot be confirmed from the public layers ParcelScout queries. Every non-DQ result carries a permanent banner that says so. The app advises — it never clears a parcel for purchase.
What ParcelScout will never say.
This is product-defining and not negotiable.
🚫 Probability of appreciation
No "% chance to double," no "expected return." Those numbers are not derivable from the data available here. Putting one on screen would make the tool misleading.
🚫 "Buy this parcel"
Tier A means "high composite, high confidence." It is not a purchase recommendation. The title-report flag stays on for every non-DQ result, forever.
🚫 Investment advice
A standing "not financial / legal / real-estate advice" disclaimer is shown on every evaluation. ParcelScout surfaces public records; you make decisions.
Authoritative GIS for the polygons; aggregators for the rest.
Authoritative (gov, free)
FEMA NFHL — flood zone and floodway, queried
by parcel centroid via ArcGIS REST.
State water authority (ADWR ArcGIS) — AMA / INA
boundary, community-water-system service area, well registry.
US Census — county-level population growth.
US Census Geocoder — address → lat/lng.
Aggregators (paid)
Regrid — APN match, zoning, assessed value,
parcel centroid.
ATTOM — tax-delinquency status, sold comps. Pro
only (kept behind the paywall because it costs us per query).
Start free. Subscribe when you need depth.
Free
A capped number of evaluations per month. Tier badge and the single top risk per parcel. The standing title-report flag and not-advice disclaimer. No watchlist, no AI narrative, no paid enrichments (tax / comps / well depth).
Pro — $4.99/mo · $29.99/yr
Unlimited evaluations. Full subscore breakdown. Paid enrichment: ATTOM tax/delinquency, sold comps, nearest-well depth. AI-written qualitative narrative on risks and upside (the AI never produces the score). Saved-parcel watchlist with re-enrichment alerts.
Public records, not personal data.
ParcelScout signs you in anonymously. We never ask for your name, email, phone, or any contact information. Listings you submit and evaluations you generate live under that anonymous ID and are deletable from Settings → Delete Account. Parcel records themselves come from public sources — they were never personal to you in the first place. No advertising SDKs. No third-party trackers.