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Water
Where water stands, pools and returns — observed flood history, floodplain position, wetlands and basin stress.
- Flood / surface-water history
- Regulatory flood zone
- Wetlands presence
Satellite + public-record due diligence
LandBenchmark measures any parcel on Earth from satellite imagery and public data — flood history, slope, soils, hazards, what sits next door — and returns an honest verdict. Every value carries its method, its source and the date it was observed. What we cannot measure, we say so.
No account required for your first analysis.
How it works
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Draw a parcel anywhere on Earth. We measure it directly — radar and optical satellite imagery, elevation models, soil surveys and public registries — computed for your boundary, not copied from a listing.
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Every conclusion arrives with its working: what we observed, why it matters, how it was computed, when the imagery was taken, and the published method or agency source behind it.
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What a satellite physically cannot settle — title, easements, zoning, water rights — goes on a human-verify checklist. We route it to you; we never guess it.
What we measure
The full framework covers 84 factors a land buyer weighs. 56 are measured live today from satellite and public data — each with a published method, a source link and its trust limits stated.
Where water stands, pools and returns — observed flood history, floodplain position, wetlands and basin stress.
Whether you can actually build — slope, buildable area, soils, shrink-swell risk and depth to bedrock.
Getting to and servicing the land — road distance, drive times, grid power and utilities.
The forces that break structures — wildfire, seismic ground motion, radon, karst and extreme heat.
What it is like to live and grow there — 30-year normals, growing season, solar yield and vegetation trend.
What sits next door — industrial neighbors, contamination sites, air quality and protected land.
The honesty principle
Most land tools fill gaps with estimates and call it coverage. LandBenchmark's rule is stricter, and it is the entire product: a value appears on a report only when we actually observed it — and it carries the evidence to prove it.
The same rule applies to this page. No testimonials, no invented user counts, no fake urgency — just what the product measures and how.
No placeholder numbers, ever. A parcel where nothing could be measured returns a pending report — never a dressed-up guess.
Every live value states when it was observed — the sensor, the imagery window and the resolution it was read at.
Every signal names its method and its source — peer-reviewed science or the responsible public agency, with a link.
Trust limits are disclosed on each signal, and the verdict is a screening call — not a survey, appraisal or flood determination.
Questions
Anywhere on Earth. The core satellite, terrain and climate signals are global; parcels in the United States get additional depth from federal datasets — FEMA flood zones, USDA soil surveys, USGS seismic design values, EPA registries. Each signal on a report states its own coverage and the dataset it was read from.
It is a screen, not a determination. Green / caution / walk-away summarises which measured signals raised flags, so you know where to dig before paying for surveys and site visits. It is not a survey, an appraisal or a flood determination — and if nothing could be measured, the report says pending rather than pretending.
Public, citable sources: Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery, Copernicus and USGS elevation models, ERA5 climate reanalysis, NASA MODIS, ESA WorldCover, USDA soil surveys, FEMA, NOAA, EPA and OpenStreetMap, among others. Every signal on every report links the source it was computed from — the full list is on the methodology page.
Anything that lives in paper records rather than on the land: title and liens, deeded access and easements, zoning, mineral and water rights, soil bearing capacity. Those 8 checks appear on every report as a human-verify checklist — flagged for you, never estimated.
No. You can draw a parcel and run your first analysis without signing up. An account adds saved analyses and a dashboard.
Running an analysis is free right now. Paid tiers are still being finalised and billing is not live — the pricing page shows what is planned.
About a minute from boundary to verdict — every value dated and cited. No account required.