Walkscore for climate risk

Much as Walkscore popularized the embedding of walkability information into online real estate listings, ClimateCheck calculates a single 0 to 100 synthetic index of fire, drought, flood, and storm risk for every US street address and exposes through a variety of embedded-able content plugins and API calls. After the widespread adoption of Walkscore, that metric was shown to have deomnstrable impact on housing prices and days on market, raising the possibliity that climate risk information may similarly improve buyers' ability to weigh these factors—and discount homes in high risk areas, discouraging investment there in line with broader policy aims.

This points towards a much broader range of private-sector urban models that generate indicators for risk, value, and access—among other criteria—that drive decisionmaking and exert a significant influence over the urban realm.