Dallas County appraisals 2026 — every parcel, and how it compares
Find your property, then see whether your appraisal moved like the rest of your street.
Every map on this site
Maps
One map, one question. Each is built from the open data in the catalogue and says on the page where its numbers came from and what they cannot tell you.
- 26 maps
Dallas from orbit, 1985 to now
Forty years of Landsat over DFW, straight from the USGS archive. Drag the year.
Dallas is built out of 26-foot streets
51% of Dallas local streets are exactly 26 feet wide. The standard peaks in the 1950s and erodes every decade after.
DFW land cover, 2001 to now
Classified land cover and satellite imagery for Dallas–Fort Worth, by year.
Every active wildfire in Texas
Eleven active incidents. One of them is 95% of the acreage.
Every data center filed in Texas — 671 filings, 70 million square feet
$12.1B of new data center construction on the Texas record. Two-thirds of it was filed in the last two years.
Every licence plate reader mapped in Texas
16,243 plate readers, 92% of them Flock Safety — and nine in ten don't say who operates them.
Every place in Texas already has an address
Plus Codes give every 14-metre square on earth a short address — and unlike what3words, you can compute them yourself.
How dry Texas is this week
Updated every Thursday. Drought is what turns a spark into a fire.
How far DFW home values have fallen from their peak
Half the metro peaked in July and August 2022. Princeton is down 24.6%. Inner Dallas barely moved.
How North Texas got built, 1880–2023
23,063 residential subdivisions across 16 counties, appearing in the year they were built. 1984 is still the biggest year on record.
Palo Pinto Mountains State Park — the exact boundary
4,871 acres across two counties, ninety minutes west of Fort Worth. Bought in 2011, opened in 2025.
Silver Lake State Park — the boundary Texas hasn't published
54,218 acres reconstructed from appraisal records — within 0.4% of the acreage TPWD announced.
Texas Fire Watch — live drought, burn bans and wildfire
How dry Texas is, which counties have banned burning, and what is on fire — read fresh from the source every time the page loads.
The 111 tracts where Dallas–Fort Worth added its housing
941 tracts. 111 of them account for 111,803 new housing units. One went from 684 units to 3,527.
The Loop — Dallas's 71-mile trail ring, and how much of it exists
65% built. The rest is programmed or proposed.
Twenty-six years of DFW home values, month by month
318 months of Zillow's home value index across 250 DFW ZIP codes.
What every Texas city permitted last year
Frisco permitted four apartments for every house. Fulshear permitted 3,264 houses and no apartments.
What Fort Worth is building
57,276 building permits since 2024, $42.5 billion of work — including $4.15bn of data centres.
When each DFW ZIP code peaked
132 ZIPs peaked in 2022 and fell 8.8%. 116 kept climbing into 2024–26 and fell 4.3%. The split is by price.
When every lake in Texas was built
Texas has one natural lake. The other 7,000 have a completion date — and almost all of them share the same thirty years.
Where Dallas–Fort Worth actually built
Celina, Melissa and Prosper roughly tripled their housing stock in eight years. All three peaked within a month of each other.
Where is the new Lake Palestine state park? Three tracts fit
Of 108,484 parcels in Henderson County, only three owners hold a shoreline tract the size TPWD is buying.
Where Texas is burning right now
The Ross Fire has burned 88,000 acres west of Fort Worth — 95% of everything alight in Texas.
Which Texas counties have a burn ban
A burn ban makes outdoor burning an offence. It does not stop a fire starting.
Who owns DFW from somewhere else
California owns the most DFW land — but across 13,984 owners. Arizona owns 40% as much through 1,285.