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One parcel, all six eyes, scored and mapped — a PDF you keep and share with your agent, lender or driller.
Screen a parcelRural land screening · Idaho
Know the land before you buy it.
The records that decide whether a rural parcel works — well logs, slope, soils, flood maps, road inventories, fire history, the county roll — are public, but they live in more than a dozen state and federal systems most buyers never knew existed. AcreEyes reads them for one Idaho parcel and delivers a plain-language report, usually within minutes.
Screening from public records — not a survey, appraisal or buildability determination.
Six eyes, one parcel
Every report reads the parcel six ways
Each eye pulls the records a specialist would — the driller's logs, the soil survey, the road inventory, the flood map, the county roll — and says plainly what they show for your parcel. Each one also names what it cannot see, so you know exactly what is left to check on the ground.
Water Eye
Is there water, and how deep?
Every logged well around the parcel boundary from Idaho's well records: how deep it went, where the water stood, what it produced in gallons per minute, and any state groundwater restriction on the area.
Cannot see: The well that has not been drilled yet. Yield here is an estimate from the neighbours, and water quality is not checked.
Land Eye
Is there ground to put a house on?
USGS elevation for gentle ground — how much sits under 10% and 15% slope, and whether it is one usable patch — plus NRCS soil ratings for septic absorption and foundations.
Cannot see: A perc test, a soil pit or a site plan. Soil ratings are mapped averages, and only the county can approve a septic system.
Road Eye
Can you get there, and who plows it?
The nearest mapped road, what kind of road it is, whether a county or highway district maintains it, Forest Service roads, and how many neighbours lie between a landlocked parcel and a maintained road.
Cannot see: Recorded easements, gates or this winter's plowing. A mapped road that no agency maintains is not a recorded right to use it.
Hazard Eye
What could flood, burn or foul it?
FEMA flood zones and floodways, mapped wetlands and streams netted out of the acreage; wildfire hazard, past fires and fire-district coverage; smoke days per year; EPA air-quality areas; and rail lines and EPA-listed sites within a mile.
Cannot see: Unmapped flooding, defensible space, the roof and siding, what an insurer will charge, or what the neighbours sound and smell like on a given day. Not a flood determination, a wildfire risk assessment or an environmental site assessment.
Title Eye
What does the record say about ownership and access?
Owner of record, vesting, legal description, zoning and tax amount from the county roll; the last deed date where published; public land and easements in PAD-US; reservation boundaries; HOA and CC&R signals; what the frontage, plat and legal description say about access; critical habitat and Wild & Scenic Rivers nearby.
Cannot see: The chain of title, liens, whether property tax is owed now, unrecorded agreements, the access easement itself or what the CC&Rs actually say. Not a title opinion.
Farm Eye
What will this ground grow?
Reported beside the score
NRCS capability, productivity, pH and limits for every soil on the parcel; NOAA climate normals from the nearest station; what is grown within a mile (USDA Cropland Data Layer); and, from those, which crops and animals fit.
Cannot see: A soil test, this parcel's own weather, its fences, barns or water delivery, or a yield. Crop and livestock fit is a screen, not an agronomic plan.
Water first
Water is where every report starts
The expensive surprises on rural land are the ones found after the earnest money: a 400-foot well, a slope no driveway will climb, a creek setback that eats the homesite. Water is the hardest of these to check and the one most parcel apps skip. AcreEyes reads it first.
You see the logged wells around the boundary — how deep they went, where the water stood and what they produced — so you know what drilling nearby has found before you ask a driller for a quote.
Read the record
The records are public. Finding them is the hard part.
No single office holds the answer to "is this land any good to live on?" Each piece sits with a different agency, in a different format, keyed to a different map. We know where every piece lives, and we read them all for your parcel.
- Well logs and water rights
- Idaho Department of Water Resources
- Slope and elevation
- USGS 3D Elevation Program
- Septic and foundation soils
- NRCS Soil Survey
- Flood zones and wetlands
- FEMA flood maps · National Wetlands Inventory
- Road maintenance
- ITD Local Road Inventory · US Forest Service
- Owner, zoning and tax
- The county assessor's roll
- Public land and easements
- PAD-US · Census tribal boundaries
- Wildfire, smoke and air
- US Forest Service · NOAA · EPA
A score that shows its working
Every report ends in a 0–100 screening score with the reasons behind it, so you can rank a short list of parcels side by side. If a public lookup fails, that item is marked not checked — never quietly counted as a pass. The score is a consistent way to compare parcels; it has not been validated against outcomes and is not a forecast.
How it works
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Enter the parcel
A street address or the county PIN. We look it up before you pay, so you can see we found the right one. A 5-pack takes five, so you can compare listings.
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Check out
Pay securely. Reports are digital — nothing ships, no account needed.
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Read your report
The analysis runs the moment payment clears. You get an email with your PDF, usually within minutes, and it stays on your order page.
If a parcel can't be read automatically, a person works it by hand and emails you the report or a refund within one business day.
Pricing
5-report pack
$149.00$128.00
Launch price
Five parcels — $25.60 each. Screen the whole short list before you spend a weekend driving out to see them.
Screen five parcelsIdaho parcels only for now; neighbouring states follow as their well records are added. Land agent screening listings every week? Get in touch about agent plans with branded reports.
What it is — and isn't
AcreEyes is the first look a careful buyer should take, built entirely from public records. It is not a survey, appraisal, septic or perc approval, flood determination, water-right opinion or legal buildability determination, and well logs describe past wells, not the one you'd drill. Use it to cut a list of listings down to the ones that deserve a site visit, a perc test and the professionals. Read the full screening disclaimer.