Guide · Sources
Florida parcel data from the county appraisers: where each field on a parcel comes from
Every owner, value and outline on a Florida parcel starts with one of the 67 elected county property appraisers, who send their roll and parcel map to the state each year. We load those files for all 67 counties, add the appraisers' own sales or building files in the 55 counties that publish them, and take each map layer from the agency that makes it: FEMA, the federal wetland and soil surveys, state agencies, and Sunbiz for companies.
The route a parcel record takes
- The appraiser builds the roll. Owner, mailing address, values, exemptions, use code, land and building totals, and the sales the office reviewed.
- The state publishes it in one format. The Department of Revenue takes each county's roll and parcel map and posts them as files with the same columns everywhere, listed on its data request page. That shared format is why a statewide map is possible at all.
- Many appraisers publish more on their own. A sales file with the exact day and deed type, a building table with beds and baths, an owner file that changes between rolls. No two look alike, so each county is read on its own terms.
Nothing on our map is bought from a company that resells parcel records. Each field goes back to a public office you can check.
Field by field
| Field | Who publishes it | Counties | Rows we hold, 1 November 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner, mailing address, values, use, land and building totals | The appraiser's roll, as posted by the Department of Revenue | 67 | 11,090,226 |
| Final-roll value and owner | The same, final version (preliminary where no final is posted) | 66 | 11,045,451 |
| Parcel outline | The appraiser's parcel map, as sent to the Department | 67 | 10,486,065 |
| Sale month, price, qualification code | The Department's sale file | 67 | 20,527,323 |
| Sale day, deed type, and the names where printed | The appraiser's own sales file | 32 | 18,969,889 |
| Beds, baths, stories, heated area, subdivision, full legal | The appraiser's own download, or a local layer built from it | 51 | 10,019,334 |
| Owner on file since the roll | The appraiser's owner file | 9 | 3,494,160 |
| Zoning | County and city planning maps, 103 layers | 39 | 9,479,596 |
| Flood zone | FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer | statewide | 594,039 zones |
| Wetlands | The US Fish and Wildlife Service's National Wetlands Inventory | statewide | 1,061,512 features |
| Soils | USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO) | statewide | 700,502 map units |
| Septic or sewer, well or utility water | The Florida Department of Health's water management inventory | statewide | 10,023,099 |
| The company behind an owner | The Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) | statewide | 451,433 companies |
The state's sale file total joins two postings: 20,403,924 rows from the files back to 2009, and 123,399 newer ones from the 2026 final roll. Storm surge and evacuation zones come from the Florida Division of Emergency Management. One layer is a compilation rather than a single office's map: future land use, 1,114,734 areas from the University of Florida GeoPlan Center's statewide gathering of 2020 local plans.
How much of each county comes from the county itself
| Beyond the state's files, measured 1 November 2026 | Counties |
|---|---|
| Both the appraiser's sales file and building file | 28 |
| The building file only | 23 |
| The sales file only (Baker, Collier, Escambia, St. Lucie) | 4 |
| The state's files alone | 12 |
The twelve on the state's files alone are Columbia, Dixie, Gadsden, Glades, Indian River, Jefferson, Levy, Liberty, Okeechobee, Suwannee, Taylor and Union. Most are small rural counties. Their appraisers show one parcel at a time on the web; where a bulk file exists, it sits behind a bot check, a records request or a fee, and we load nothing we cannot fetch openly. Baker counts as a sales county, but its file ends in September 2024.
What the county's own file adds
- The day of a sale. The state's file gives the month only, and no names. A county file gives the day and the deed type, and some print the seller and buyer.
- The house itself. The state's roll carries a living area and a year built, but not beds, baths or stories.
- The whole legal description. The state's field stops at 30 characters; the county's does not. What the state's files cut.
- Fresher sales. County files we read in late October hold deeds into October, while the state's sale file trails by weeks to months. How far each county lags.
Where it stops
- Twelve counties have no building detail. Their parcels show the state's living area and year, not rooms.
- Zoning is mapped in 39 counties. Elsewhere the county or city has not published a map we can load. Zoning by county.
- Sales are the only recorded documents. Mortgages, liens and the rest of the clerk's records are not loaded.
- Exempt owners stay out. Owners kept confidential under section 119.071 of the Florida Statutes are removed before the files are published.
On Map Views
The report names its sources as it goes. Its last line gives the county's roll and the day we loaded it. A building line links the appraiser's file it came from and gives the date we read it. The flood, wetland and soil lines come from the federal layers above; the owner's Sunbiz filing, officers and agent come from the state's corporate records. From the owner, one tap lists every parcel under the same name and mailing address statewide. For the appraisers' own sites, see all 67 with their links.
The county property appraiser is the authority on each parcel's owner, value and sales; FEMA on the flood zone; the Division of Corporations on a company's filing. We show their records as they published them and count them ourselves.