CoverScore
Edition 01 · Property

Your insurer already scored this house. Now you can too.

Wildfire, flood, wind, and water exposure for one specific address — built from the same public hazard data actuaries use, then sharpened by what only you can see from your own roof.

1 in 425
fire
1 in 35
wind hail
1 in 60
water
Free report · address in, hazard out

Where is the property?

Enter any US address and see the county-level wildfire, flood, and wind rating in seconds — automated from public hazard layers, no account and no personal data required for the free score.

Your address goes to public government geocoding services only; we don't receive or store it.

How the score is built

Public data first, your house second.

Area risk is automated and needs nothing from you. Everything after that narrows the confidence band — the number moves less than the uncertainty does.

Layer 1 · automated

Public hazard data

Wildfire, flood, and wind exposure from public hazard layers, resolved to your address. No account needed — this is the free score.

Layer 2 · you

What you tell us

Roof age, mitigation steps already taken, a few photos. Each answer narrows the band toward your actual house, not the neighborhood average.

Layer 3 · professional

An inspection

The tightest band comes from someone standing on your roof. This is the only paid step in Property, and it's optional.

What sits inside Property

6 hazards, scored separately

A single property number hides which hazard is actually driving it. These stay separate — each stat below cites its own source.

flood
>40%

More than 40% of NFIP flood claims come from homes OUTSIDE mapped high-risk zones.

all NFIP claims (conditional on holding NFIP policies) · multi-year claims history
water · comparison
1 in 60

About 1 in 60 insured homes has a water-damage or freezing claim each year — roughly 7x more frequent than fire.

value
1.61
severity
13,954
per insured house-year · per year (2018–2022 avg)

same denominator, both figures

wildfire · comparison
35% vs 6%

In the Camp Fire, homes more than ~60 feet from a destroyed structure survived at 6x the rate of closer homes — 35% vs 6%.

threshold m
18
survival far
35.4
survival near
5.8
single-family homes inside the burn perimeter (n=400 sampled) · one event (2018)

same denominator, both figures

Not yet scored: extreme heat, water quality, electrification, structural. We don't publish a hazard module until it has a cited source behind it — see the data gaps page.

Insurability trend

Where the insurance market itself is already moving

Published, dated figures — not a forecast. Bands render exactly as published; nothing here is smoothed or re-binned.

insurability · gradient ladder
+157% in 4 years

California's FAIR Plan grew 157% in four years — from ~272,000 policies (2022) to 696,562 (June 2026), with exposure up 150% to $768B.

FAIR Plan policies in force · Sept 2022 → June 2026
insurability · gradient ladder
FL 2.99% / LA 1.80% / CA 1.72%

In 2023, Florida homeowners faced a 3-in-100 chance of insurer-initiated non-renewal — nearly 4x the 2018 rate; California 1.7 in 100.

CA
1.7
FL
3
LA
1.8
MA
1.5
MS
1.5
NC
1.8
OK
1.5
policies in force (23 insurers ≈65% of market) · per policy-year, 2023
What a claim actually costs

Dollar figures, always paired — never freestanding fear

flood · severity
$25,000 / inch

One inch of floodwater causes roughly $25,000 in damage; the average NFIP claim payment exceeds $66,000.

paired frequency

A home in a FEMA high-risk flood zone has a 1-in-4 chance of flooding at least once over a 30-year mortgage.

per flood event / per NFIP claim · recent claim years
Step 3 · Action

A free option is always ranked first when it works.

Ranked by how much each moves your score, not by what we earn. Every mitigation below cites the study it came from.

water · mitigation

A ~$500 device against the most common homeowner claim.

−96% claims

Homes that installed an automatic water shutoff had 96% fewer paid water-damage claims the following year; comparable homes without one had 10% more.

study population & design
2,306 device homes vs matched controls · 1 yr pre vs 1 yr post install
Tier B · qualifier — Vendor-funded study (LexisNexis/Moen), controlled design, n=2,306.
wind hail · mitigation

Ask about FORTIFIED certification; several states offer premium credits.

−55% to −74% claims

In Hurricane Sally, FORTIFIED-certified homes had 55–74% fewer claims than conventional homes across 40,093 insured properties.

study population & design
40,093 insured coastal-Alabama properties · one event (2020)
wildfire · mitigation

Harden the structure AND clear 0–9 m; hardening beats distance alone.

25% → 48% survival

Modeled across 47,000 structures in five California fires: home hardening plus cleared Zones 0–1 raised survival from 25% to 48% — a hypothetical 52% loss reduction.

study population & design
structures exposed in 5 major CA fires (model, 82% accuracy) · event-based
Beyond the building

A house is not the only thing at that address

Contents Index shares the same hazard data and the same evacuation reality — it's the free tool that documents everything a Property claim would need to itemize.

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