Built on FEMA's National Risk Index
Standard insurance won't cover flood or earthquake, and in wildfire country some homes are getting hard to insure at all. Before you commit to an address, check what it's actually exposed to, from FEMA's own risk data.
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Why it matters
A listing gives you beds, baths, and a price. It doesn't tell you whether the ground shakes, the creek rises, or the hillside burns, and those are the things that flood a basement, total a home, or push a premium out of reach. It's the easiest part of the decision to skip, right up until it's the one that costs you. And you can check it in a minute.
So you can act on it
FEMA's National Risk Index rates every US location, but it's built for planners, not buyers. We turn it into one plain-English page you can read in a minute and take to your agent or insurer.
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FEMA's composite natural-disaster rating for the address, from Very Low to Very High.
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Where this location ranks against every other US community, so the rating has context.
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A rating for each: wildfire, riverine and coastal flooding, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, heat, drought and more.
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The hazards that rate highest here, pulled to the top, so you know where to focus.
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A straight explanation of what the index measures (expected loss, not raw odds) so you don't misread it.
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Which coverage the top hazards call for, and the mitigation worth doing before you need it.
A sample
This is the at-a-glance grid you get, plus the plain-English breakdown behind it. Your address replaces every value.
Read this before you buy the report
The National Risk Index is not a measure of how likely a disaster is. It is a measure of expected annual loss: FEMA blends how often a hazard occurs, how much is in harm's way, how vulnerable the community is, and how well it can recover, into one number. That has two honest consequences we put right on the page:
We'd rather you understand that up front than feel misled after. It's FEMA's index, presented straight, so you can read it correctly and take it to your insurer.
How it works
Step 1
We pinpoint your exact location, not just your ZIP code.
Step 2
We pull the National Risk Index scores for your census tract.
Step 3
Overall rating, national percentile, all 18 hazards, and what to do, in seconds.