Aerial Photos of Montana, 2025
USDA Farm Service Agency - National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) 2025
The 2025 NAIP imagery is made available through our partnership with the Montana Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
Full statewide coverage was attained for the 2025 NAIP imagery collection. The imagery was collected at a spatial resolution of 30 centimeters, with each pixel measuring roughly one foot on the ground.
The Montana State Library has not received the geotiffs from the NRCS, but a provisional image service created from the compressed county mosaics is coming soon. The compressed county mosaics are currently available for download from our FTP site or the NRCS geospatial data gateway.
Click on a county in the map below to download the 4-band county mosaic images of the area, or download the county mosaic images directly from the download the county mosaic images directly from the ftp site.
These images have been compressed from the original quarter-quad tiles and are provided in MrSID MG4 format and Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates, units meters, datum NAD83. MrSID MG4 is supported in ArcGIS 10.1 and newer.
The downloadable products are multi-band images with three visible and one near-infrared wavelength bands, and an alpha band for identifying no-data areas. Most software will automatically display the first three bands as a natural-color image. To view the imagery as color infrared (CIR or false color), use band four as the red image, band one as the green, and band two as the blue.
Please see our Ordering Aerial Photos page if you need copies of the imagery for numerous counties or if you require the uncompressed quarter-quad tiles in TIFF format.
The approximate horizontal accuracy of these images is 5 meters.
