RiskIndex reports get deeper: wildfire, air quality, radon and property tax

Published 2026-07-27

RiskIndex started as a composite risk score for every US county and ZIP code, blending FEMA natural-hazard, NHTSA road-safety and FBI crime data. Over the past few weeks we have made the paid household risk report substantially deeper — and added new ways to use it.

New data in every report

When you run a full report for a county or ZIP, it now includes several new government-sourced indicators that home buyers and movers ask about most:

Wildfire risk — a national percentile for the risk wildfire poses to homes, from the USDA Forest Service Wildfire Risk to Communities program.
Air quality — the median Air Quality Index (AQI) for the county and the number of days air was unhealthy, from EPA AirData.
Radon zone — the EPA radon zone (1–3) for the county, a coarse screening indicator of radon potential.
Property tax — the median annual real-estate taxes homeowners pay, from the US Census.

These join the hazard, crime, road-safety, income, home-value, health, hospital, environmental and disaster-history data already in the report.

Compare a neighborhood with the counties next door

Choosing between nearby areas? For $5 more, the new surrounding-county comparison add-on ranks every bordering county side by side by composite risk, hazard, road safety and crime — so you can see at a glance whether crossing the county line means a safer, or riskier, move.

For real-estate agents: white-label reports

Agents can now put their own logo and company name on branded location risk reports for buyers and listings, with a fair-use allowance of 150 reports a month for $19.99/month. See API & pricing to get started.

Still built entirely from government data

Every number traces to a named agency — FEMA, the FBI, NHTSA, the US Census, EPA, CDC, HRSA, NOAA and the USDA Forest Service. RiskIndex compares places, not people: the scores are statistical comparisons between areas, not predictions, and RiskIndex is not a consumer reporting agency (reports are not consumer reports under the FCRA). Run a household risk report for anywhere you are thinking of moving.