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Know tomorrow,Verified Risk assembles the records that federal and state agencies already publish about a property and its surroundings: flood, environmental, geological, and neighborhood history, in a single document your clients can read and keep. Careful buyers check the records first.
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The first page of a real report: findings first, records behind them. Click the page to read the complete report.
Twenty-six checks, each presented the same way: what the source shows, the date it was searched, the parameters used, and a link to the original database.
| Record | What the report shows | Source of record |
|---|---|---|
| Drinking water | The public water system that serves the address and its published compliance history: health-based violations since 2021 and its monitoring and reporting record. | EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System |
| PFAS testing of the water system | Whether the system serving the address was tested for the 29 PFAS compounds on EPA’s UCMR5 list, how many results are published, and the compounds measured above the laboratory reporting limit, with the highest value for each. | EPA UCMR5 occurrence data |
| Private water wells | Printed when EPA’s service-area record shows no public water system serving the address: recorded wells within 3 miles from the state’s published well-log dataset, with the count, median, and range of their recorded depths, because depth drives what a well costs to drill or replace. | EPA service areas; state well-log datasets (verified per state) |
| Crime | State-level reported-crime figures where the FBI publishes them for the state. | FBI Crime Data |
| Radon | EPA’s radon zone designation for the county, presented and labeled as a county-level designation, not a test of the individual property. | EPA Map of Radon Zones |
| Building permits | The permit history published for the address by the county or city: dates, estimated costs as published, and work descriptions, from county auditor records and published city and county permit datasets. | County and city permit records |
| County parcel record | The construction year, lot size, zoning, and recorded land use in the county’s own parcel record for the address. A construction year before 1978 is flagged with the federal lead-based paint disclosure rule that applies to pre-1978 housing. The record’s valuation and tax fields are never printed. | County parcel datasets |
| Flood | The flood zone at the address, whether it lies in a Special Flood Hazard Area, and the Flood Insurance Rate Map panel number and effective date. | FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer |
| Nearest responders and schools | The nearest fire station and its department’s staffing type as reported to the federal fire registry (career, mostly career, mostly volunteer, or volunteer), the nearest hospital, and the nearest public elementary, middle, and high schools by location, each with its straight-line distance. School attendance zones and ratings are not printed. | USGS National Structures Dataset · U.S. Fire Administration Registry · HIFLD · U.S. Department of Education (NCES) |
| Airports and runway lines | The nearest public-use airport and the nearest military airfield, and how close the extended centerline of each one's nearest runway passes to the address, computed from the runway endpoint coordinates the FAA publishes and labeled in the report as geometry, not flight tracks. Where a military noise (AICUZ) layer is published for the area, the zone recorded at the address. | FAA airport facility data (via NTAD); published AICUZ noise layers |
| Light pollution | Satellite-measured night brightness for the address’s neighborhood, from the most recent VIIRS monthly composite. | NOAA / NASA VIIRS Day-Night Band |
| Railroad lines and crossings | The distance to the nearest railroad line, the railroad of record, and the nearest place a road crosses the tracks at grade, from the federal crossing inventory. | U.S. DOT National Transportation Atlas Database · Federal Railroad Administration |
| Road projects (approved and funded) | Approved and funded, not long-range ideas: road widenings, extensions, and rebuilds on or near this property's road, voted into the adopted transportation program with construction phases in named years. Projects that appear only in long-range plans or funding applications are not listed. | The regional transportation planning agency's adopted Transportation Improvement Program and the state STIP |
| Environmental records | EPA cleanup-program sites (including Superfund sites) within 1 mile and within 10 miles, and EPA-registered facilities within 1 mile, each with its program and a link to EPA’s profile for the site. | U.S. EPA SEMS & Facility Registry · Envirofacts |
| Underground storage tanks | Tank facilities within 1 mile, the tanks in service, reported leaking-tank releases, and tank-level detail for the nearest facilities, with state-supplied data attributed to the state registry. | EPA UST Finder · state tank registries (Ohio BUSTR) |
| Landfills | The nearest landfill in the federal solid-waste facility record, with its recorded status (open or closed) and distance, and the count of closed landfills within 5 miles. Transfer stations are a different kind of facility and are not counted. | HIFLD Solid Waste Landfill Facilities |
| Wastewater treatment | The nearest wastewater (sewage) treatment plant in EPA’s facility registry layer, with its straight-line distance. | EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS) |
| Breweries, animal operations, and food plants | The nearest facilities within 5 miles whose registered primary industry in EPA’s registry is brewing, distilling, winemaking, animal production, slaughtering, rendering, or food processing, printed as the registry records them (name, industry, distance), with an explicit statement that no emission or odor at the address is claimed. | EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS) and FRS industry codes |
| Geological hazards | Karst and sinkhole records for the area from the USGS national karst map and state surveys, and the USGS landslide inventory within 10 miles. | USGS · state geological surveys (Ohio ODNR) |
| Ground elevation | The elevation of the ground at the address in the USGS national elevation data, stated in feet above or below sea level, and labeled as terrain data, not a survey and not the floor elevation of a building on the parcel. | USGS National Elevation Dataset |
| Storm history | The county’s recorded storm events from 1996 forward, counted by type: tornadoes, hail, high wind, flooding, and winter storms among them. | NOAA Storm Events Database |
| Wildfire hazard | The wildfire hazard potential class at the address from the Forest Service’s national map, labeled in the report as the agency’s modeled map, not a record about the property. | U.S. Forest Service Wildfire Hazard Potential |
| Earthquakes | Recorded earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 and greater within 150 km of the address, from 1900 forward, with the count and largest events. | USGS Earthquake Catalog |
| Electric lines and substations | The electric utility whose service territory covers the address, the nearest substation, and the nearest high-voltage transmission line, each with its straight-line distance. Neighborhood distribution lines and poles are not published in any public database, and the report says so in print. | HIFLD · U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA-860, EIA-861) |
| Wind turbines | Utility-scale wind turbines (500 kW and larger) within 10 miles, the count, and the nearest machine with its project, rating, and hub height. | U.S. Wind Turbine Database (USGS · DOE · Berkeley Lab) |
On scores: there are none. Verified Risk assigns no ratings, grades, or verdicts, and estimates no costs or values. A report states records and stops there, so it needs no qualification whether it is read by the buyer, the seller, or the agent.
Every report opens with a one-page summary of findings before the detailed sections. Specimen shown: a Franklin County address.
| Flood (FEMA) | Zone X (Area Of Minimal Flood Hazard); not in a Special Flood Hazard Area |
| Cleanup sites (EPA) | 4 within 1 mile; 48 within 10 miles |
| EPA facilities, 1 mile | 56 found |
| Underground tanks | 9 tank facilities within 1 mile; 12 tanks in service; 8 reported releases, all recorded closed |
| Drinking water | Columbus Public Water System (EPA system OH2504412); no health-based violations recorded 2021 to 2026, see section |
| Earthquakes (USGS) | 50 events, magnitude 2.5+, within 150 km since 1900; largest 5.4 |
| Radon (EPA) | Franklin County is Zone 1 (county-level designation) |
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| Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York | Nassau County |
| Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester, Michigan | Oakland County |
Run the property before the first showing and place the report in the listing file. Buyers and sellers read the same document: the flood zone, the environmental record nearby, the water system, the earthquake and radon background, each line traceable to its source.
Enter any listing address and the report is generated from the live public databases, with the search date and parameters printed in the document itself.
Three steps, the same for every address.
The address is matched by the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, which fixes the coordinates and the county of record.
The federal and state databases named above are searched for that location. The parameters of every search are printed in the report.
The report is presented on screen and may be downloaded as a PDF identical in content, for the transaction file.
Verified Risk is a compilation of public records, retrieved on the date shown in each report. It is not a home inspection, an environmental assessment, an appraisal, or a professional opinion about a property, and it is not a substitute for any of them.
A section reporting no records means only that the named database returned no records when searched. Public databases are incomplete: incidents that were never reported and records that were never digitized do not appear and may exist. Verified Risk does not verify the accuracy of source data and is not affiliated with any government agency.
Decisions about purchasing a property should be made with qualified professionals, including a licensed home inspector.