![]() "Our goal has always been to help current and future homeowners understand the extent of the flood risk facing a property, its severity, and how it's changing over time with changes to the environment," said Matthew Eby, Founder and Executive Director of First Street Foundation. Redfin and First Street Foundation also encourage homebuyers to visit to learn more about how FEMA assesses flood risk and maps a property into or out of a FEMA-designated Special Flood Hazard Area. While there, consumers can learn more about Flood Factor, FEMA and flood insurance, and they can visit for additional insights on a property's flood risk, how to protect against flooding, and more. Homebuyers and homeowners can find flood risk data-including a property's Flood Factor score and estimated Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) zone-on individual listing and off-market pages on. Most homebuyers and sellers say that the frequency or intensity of natural disasters factors into their decision about where and whether to buy or sell a home, so this is information they can really use." ![]() ![]() "By publishing the Flood Factor score, we're making it easier to understand the risk each home faces of being damaged by flooding, meaning everyone can make better-informed decisions about buying and selling. "Buying a home is the biggest purchase most people will make in their lifetime," said Redfin Chief Product Officer Christian Taubman. Currently, this data is available everywhere in the contiguous U.S. First Street Foundation, a science and technology nonprofit organization whose mission is to quantify and communicate America's growing flood risk, provides Flood Factor® data to Redfin. ![]() Visitors to who want to understand the potential flood risk of any individual property can now see a Flood Factor® score from 1 to 10 associated with each home, representing its cumulative risk of flooding over a 30-year period. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - (NASDAQ: RDFN) - Redfin (the technology-powered real estate brokerage, is now publishing flood risk information for nearly every home on its website in regions where this data is available. ![]()
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