Due Diligence: New Flood Risk Tool for Individual Properties Across the U.S.

Published: July 28, 2020, 11 p.m.

Millions of U.S. properties are at substantial risk of flooding, and some say that risk is growing due to climate change. But it hasn\u2019t been easy to determine a property\u2019s flood risk. Many states don\u2019t have flood history disclosure requirements, and FEMA maps don\u2019t tell the whole story. A non-profit academic research group hopes to close that information gap with a new visualization tool that calculates flood risk for 142 million properties across the U.S. \xa0 www.NewsForInvestors.com