Guide · Florida GIS
Florida GIS maps: county viewers, the state's free data, and one map for all 67 counties
Each county publishes its own GIS viewer, and each one stops at the county line. The state publishes the statewide layers for free, through the Florida Geographic Information Office's open data portal, the University of Florida's FGDL and the Department of Revenue's yearly parcel shapefiles, but as downloads that need GIS software. A statewide map loads those same public layers so you can read them parcel by parcel without it.
Option 1: the county's GIS viewer
Most counties run a web map, kept by the property appraiser or by the county's GIS department, and it is usually linked from the appraiser's home page. Our list of all 67 appraiser sites is a quick way to reach it. A county viewer is often the freshest source for that county's lines: it can carry a split or a new subdivision before the next yearly statewide file does.
The cost is that each one is different. Layer names, search boxes and tools change from county to county, and a parcel that sits near a county line has its neighbours on another county's viewer.
Option 2: the state's own downloads
- Florida Geospatial Open Data Portal: the Florida Geographic Information Office's catalog of statewide layers, which it describes on floridagio.gov.
- FGDL, the Florida Geographic Data Library: the University of Florida GeoPlan Center's archive, built with FDOT's support, which lists more than 600 layers.
- The Department of Revenue's Map Data folder: every county's parcel shapes, one file per county per year.
The Department's readme explains the parcel files. It collects each county's GIS parcel layer every April and joins it to the county's roll by parcel number. The PIN files hold the shapes alone; the PAR files hold the shapes joined to the roll, and they refresh the statewide parcel map that FGIO hosts each August. The readme also says why a county's shapes and its roll do not count the same: records kept confidential under Florida's public records law, rights of way, condominium records kept in related tables, one polygon drawn for several parcels, and unknown ownership. It adds that a county's own office may have more complete GIS data.
What one statewide map puts together
We load the Department's 2026 parcel shapes for all 67 counties, 11,090,226 parcels, and draw these public layers over them. Each row is what we hold on 31 October 2026, from the agency named.
| Layer on the map | Published by | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Flood zones | FEMA, National Flood Hazard Layer | 594,035 |
| FEMA flood map panels | FEMA, National Flood Hazard Layer | 7,368 |
| Storm surge zones | FDEM, Statewide Regional Evacuation Study | 230 |
| Evacuation zones | FDEM, Statewide Regional Evacuation Study | 199 |
| Coastal barrier units (CBRS) | US Fish and Wildlife Service | 138 |
| Wetlands (NWI) | US Fish and Wildlife Service | 1,061,512 |
| Soils | USDA NRCS, SSURGO | 700,502 |
| Land use and cover (FLUCCS) | FDEP, from the five water management districts | 1,420,850 |
| Lakes, rivers and streams | USGS, National Hydrography Dataset | 1,062,017 |
| Contours, 5 ft | FDEM, from 2019 LiDAR | 732,089 |
| Watersheds (HUC 12) | USGS, Watershed Boundary Dataset | 1,379 |
| Conservation lands | Florida Natural Areas Inventory | 3,435 |
| Environmental resource permits | FDEP | 221,138 |
| Septic and well | FDOH, Florida Water Management Inventory | 10,023,099 |
| Buildings | FEMA and ORNL, USA Structures | 7,792,420 |
| Traffic counts (AADT) | FDOT | 103,662 |
| State highways | FDOT | 2,951 |
| Schools | NCES | 6,223 |
| Sections and townships | Bureau of Land Management, PLSS | 52,759 |
| Census tracts and block groups | US Census Bureau, 2020 | 18,548 |
| ZIP codes | US Census Bureau | 1,013 |
Zoning and future land use come from the counties and cities themselves: zoning districts for 46 counties, 228 jurisdictions and 6,961 codes, on 9,479,596 parcels, and a future land use category on 10,776,730. Shaded relief is drawn live from the USGS 3D Elevation Program, and the base maps are streets, aerial photos and topography.
Where a statewide map stops
- It is a copy. We fetched the layers above on 24 and 25 October 2026. When an agency revises its map, its own site has it first.
- Lines on a map are not a survey. The parcel shapes are the counties' tax maps, not boundary surveys, and a statewide file can lag the county's latest split.
- Some layers carry their own warning. The Fish and Wildlife Service says its wetland maps are not jurisdictional wetland determinations, and that its coastal barrier lines are not the legal maps.
What Map Views does with it
Type an address and the map opens the parcel, then turn layers on from one list: flood, surge, wetlands, soils, contours or zoning, over any county, with the parcel's report beside it. No download, no GIS software, and the same controls in Escambia as in Monroe. For how the zoning layer differs from county to county, see our zoning map by county.
Each layer is the publishing agency's public data, as it published it, and that agency is the authority. For the legal answer, such as a flood zone determination or a wetland line, go to the agency or a licensed professional.