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.
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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.
Downtown Dallas surface parking
237 surface lots inside the freeway loop: 137 acres and an estimated 16,000 spaces.
Downtown Dallas, value per square foot
Downtown Dallas and one mile around it: $37.3 billion of appraised value on 4,240 acres, $202 a square foot against $26 for the county.
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
16,613 plate readers, 92% of them Flock Safety — and nine in ten don't say who operates them.
Every lot the Dallas land bank is offering
39 lots listed, 69 owned. Three of the listings belong to someone else on the appraisal roll, and two are not vacant.
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.
Every Texas police grant your car insurance paid for
$51.2m in state motor-vehicle-crime grants, mapped. 38 of the 39 that name cameras sit in the fund the law reserves for catalytic converter theft.
Fort Worth permits, live
Fort Worth publishes its permit workflow as a live service. Search a permit and watch it move from Plan Review to Issued — no phone call.
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.
PFC and HFC property in Dallas County
$6.0 billion and about 32,700 units titled to public facility and housing finance corporations. Dallas's own deals are exempt; most held by HFCs from Pecos, La Villa and elsewhere are on the 2026 roll as taxable.
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.
Texas is replacing three quarters of its Opportunity Zones
453 Texas neighbourhoods lose the tax break at the end of 2026. Drag the slider to see what replaces them.
Texas retail mapper
Every Whataburger. Every H-E-B. Every Buc-ee's. Search 1.46 million Texas places, map them, and export the view.
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.
Vacant land in Dallas County, outside the city
The same number of vacant parcels as the city of Dallas, on two-thirds more land. 62% of that acreage sits in 1,302 tracts of five acres or more.
Vacant land inside the city of Dallas
24,464 vacant parcels survive the floodplain, on 20,205 acres — about 8% of the city. Two-thirds are smaller than a quarter-acre, and 61% sit south of I-30.
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.
What pays no property tax in Dallas County
$58.9 billion of Dallas County property, about 11% of the roll, pays no property tax. Who owns it, and why it is exempt.
What the land is worth in Dallas County
DCAD's value for the land alone, per square foot, on 647,488 parcels. Highland Park runs $275–350; three of every four parcels are priced as a flat amount per lot, whatever its size.
What's dug up in Dallas right now
Live from the city: every open permit to dig up a Dallas street. Gas, water, sewer, paving — who is digging and when they said they would be done.
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.
When the building is just a remainder
322 Dallas County buildings valued at under 15% of their property. Terrace House on Maple: $37.8M of land, a building carried at $1,000 in 2021.
Where America actually builds homes
1.39 million homes permitted across 931 metros in 2025. DFW leads with 66,179 — and none of the ten metros named best for new construction are in the top ten for building any.
Where Dallas County's value is concentrated
Appraised value per square foot of land on 647,520 parcels. The densest 1% of land carries 18.7% of the county's $542 billion; the densest 10% carries 54%.
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.
Where the land is worth more than the building
705 downtown and Uptown Dallas parcels where the building is worth under half the land: 371 acres, $1.76B of land. 221 sit within half a mile of Klyde Warren Park.
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.