Measure a lawn
from your desk, in square feet.

How to measure lawn square footage

1. Type the property address and switch to the satellite view
2. Click around the edge of the grass, one area at a time: front, back, sides
3. Skip the house, driveway, patio, pool and planting beds
4. Add the areas up; the tool fills the square footage into the calculator

Why square footage matters

Mowing, fertilizer, aeration, overseeding and sod are all priced by area. One measurement answers all of them. A typical US suburban lot has 5,000 to 10,000 square feet of turf; quarter-acre lots often reach 8,000.

Measuring with Google Maps instead

Google Maps has a "Measure distance" tool that can outline an area on desktop, but it reports the whole polygon and takes several clicks per yard. This tool is built for lawns: trace, add the next area, done. Read how to measure a lawn from the satellite map for tips on trees, slopes and old images.