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Where can you find out what disaster risks your property faces?

Answer: Two new online tools, Risk Factor Pro and ClimRR.

Aerial view of a flooded neighborhood street in Boulder in 2013.
Two new online tools debuted recently that can help you find out just how risky your home is when it comes to climate-related disasters. Risk Factor Pro is an upgraded tier of First Street Foundation’s Risk Factor tool, in which you can search a street address and see how it rates for risk from things like wildfires, floods and more. The new Pro edition comes with additional features like calculators to tell you how much it would cost to repair damages and how long it would take. You can also see things like flood, fire and heat maps.

The second tool comes from the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and AT&T. The Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR) lets users zoom in on a 12-square-kilometer area and see maps and reports on temperature, precipitation and wind as well as historical averages and projections for the middle and end of the century.

ClimRR also presents climate models for two different scenarios into the future: a “pessimistic” model that shows greenhouse gas emissions worsening steadily over the next century; and a more optimistic one where they peak in 2040 and then begin to fall. Argonne is expecting to add data on flooding and wildfire risk soon.