Flood & wetland signals
FEMA flood zones, National Wetland Inventory, and DNR public waters — mapped to each parcel, with the source and as-of date on every fact.
Twin Cities · 183 communities
Explore potential building sites with real site-condition signals
Find potential building sites across the Twin Cities and see what actually matters before you fall in love with a lot — flood, wetland, public waters, sewer service, and school district, each sourced and dated.
- potential sites
- 23,253
- communities
- 183
- counties
- 7
Search by location, lot size, water and trees
Start from what you want in a site, not from GIS layers. Each result opens a lot page carrying its sources and as-of dates.
Try: Lots by water in Chanhassen · 5+ acre lots in Lakeville · Lots by water in Victoria
“By water” means the parcel sits in a DNR lake/shoreland area — not necessarily lakefront. “Wooded” is measured tree canopy from the 2015 UMN 1-m dataset (modeled — conditions may have changed).
Browse by city
183 cities and townships. Counts per city are on the full list.
Anoka County
Carver County
Dakota County
- Apple Valley
- Burnsville
- Castle Rock Township
- Coates
- Douglas Township
- Eagan
- Empire
- Eureka Township
- Farmington
- Greenvale Township
- Hampton
- Hampton Township
- Hastings
- Inver Grove Heights
- Lakeville
- Lilydale
- Marshan Township
- Mendota
- Mendota Heights
- Miesville
- New Trier
- Nininger Township
- Northfield
- Randolph
- Randolph Township
- Ravenna Township
- Rosemount
- Sciota Township
- South Saint Paul
- Sunfish Lake
- Vermillion
- Vermillion Township
- Waterford Township
- West Saint Paul
Hennepin County
- Bloomington
- Brooklyn Center
- Brooklyn Park
- Champlin
- Corcoran
- Crystal
- Dayton
- Deephaven
- Eden Prairie
- Edina
- Excelsior
- Golden Valley
- Greenfield
- Greenwood
- Hanover
- Hopkins
- Independence
- Long Lake
- Loretto
- Maple Grove
- Maple Plain
- Medicine Lake
- Medina
- Minneapolis
- Minnetonka
- Minnetonka Beach
- Minnetrista
- Mound
- New Hope
- Orono
- Osseo
- Plymouth
- Richfield
- Robbinsdale
- Rockford
- Rogers
- Saint Anthony
- Saint Bonifacius
- Saint Louis Park
- Shorewood
- Spring Park
- Tonka Bay
- Wayzata
- Woodland
Ramsey County
Scott County
Washington County
- Afton
- Bayport
- Baytown Township
- Birchwood Village
- Cottage Grove
- Dellwood
- Denmark Township
- Forest Lake
- Grant
- Grey Cloud Island Township
- Hugo
- Lake Elmo
- Lake Saint Croix Beach
- Lakeland
- Lakeland Shores
- Mahtomedi
- Marine on Saint Croix
- May Township
- Newport
- Oak Park Heights
- Oakdale
- Pine Springs
- Saint Marys Point
- Saint Paul Park
- Scandia
- Stillwater
- Stillwater Township
- West Lakeland Township
- Willernie
- Woodbury
What you can see on every lot
The signals that separate a site you can build on from one that will surprise you — pulled from authoritative public datasets, not guesswork.
Sewer & utilities
Whether a site sits inside the Metropolitan Council’s planned sewer service area (MUSA) — a real gate on what it costs to build.
School district
The school district each parcel falls in, from the state boundary dataset — one of the first questions every family asks.
Honest by design
Unknown never masquerades as clear. Modeled is never shown as verified. Every signal is preliminary and traces back to its source.
How it works
Three steps from a map full of land to a site you understand.
Explore the map
Browse potential building sites across 183 Twin Cities communities — on an interactive map or a fully accessible sortable list.
Filter to your must-haves
Narrow by flood risk, wetland, public waters, sewer service, school district, and acreage. The map and list stay in sync.
Open a lot, see the evidence
See every sourced signal with its source and as-of date, plus a preliminary build envelope — each one preliminary, and never a determination.
We show you what we don’t know
Every fact carries its confidence in words and an icon — never color alone, and readable in grayscale. Absence of data is shown as “unknown,” never as a clean bill of health.
ClearConcernUnknownInfo · Modeled
When we have seen it ourselves. Sometimes someone from HomeBuildersMN walks a street and sees a home going up on a lot this map lists. That lot’s page then says so, with the month we saw it, and the lot leaves search and the city pages like any lot a builder’s own site calls sold. We keep the photograph on file; it is never published with the lot or its address.