Site hazard screening · live government data

Every hazard at your site.
And where each number came from.

Enter an address. Credible Risk looks it up in the official government databases — faults, earthquake design values, flood, wildfire, landslide, dam inundation, tsunami and coastal — and shows you the exact query behind every answer.

If a source is down, it says so. Nothing is guessed.

Reviewing a report someone else wrote? Check it against the live sources →

Live screening 33.7543, −118.2160 · 25 km
Port of Long Beach
Nearest faultquerying USGS Qfaults
ASCE 7-22querying USGS Design Maps
FEMA floodquerying FEMA NFHL
Dam inundationquerying DSOD / Cal OES
Tsunamiquerying CGS
This screening runs when the page loads Open this screening →
Queried live, per site, at screening time
USGSQfaults · Design Maps · ComCat FEMANFHL · NRI CAL FIREFHSZ 2024–25 CGSEZRI · MS58 · Tsunami NOAASLR viewer CAL OESDSOD inundation
Where the numbers come from

Every number shows its source.

Click any answer and you get the government record behind it — the service, the exact query, and the time it ran.

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Re-run it yourself

Click any determination and open the exact query — FEMA, CGS, USGS — against the live service, timestamped to the second.

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Every report includes the evidence

Appendix A of every report is a determination log — service, layer, queried-at, exact URL — that any reviewer can reproduce line by line.

03

The API carries it too

Every API response carries the same sources, so anything built on Credible Risk can show its work too.

Other tools give you a score and ask you to trust it. Credible Risk gives you the source, so you can check it.
Determination receipt
FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer
S_FLD_HAZ_AR · layer 28
Determination
Flood — Zone AE · Special Flood Hazard Area · BFE 8 ft
Queried at— hydrating from the live screening above — MethodLive point query
FLD_ZONEAE
SFHA_TFT
STATIC_BFE8
ZONE_SUBTYnull
https://hazards.fema.gov/arcgis/rest/services/public/NFHL/MapServer/28/query?geometry=-118.216,33.7543&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&inSR=4326&…&f=json Re-run this query against FEMA →
Opens FEMA’s own service in a new tab. Look for FLD_ZONE: "AE", SFHA_TF: "T", STATIC_BFE: 8 — the values on this card.
Seven hazards, one search

What gets checked at every site.

Each one is looked up live in the agency's own database at the moment you search — not read from a stored copy.

Earthquake — the most detailed check

Nearest active and Quaternary faults with distance and bearing, estimated Mmax (Wells & Coppersmith), historic M4.5+ seismicity since 1900, and a terrain cross-section to the nearest active trace.

Official CGS regulatory zones — Alquist-Priolo, liquefaction, earthquake-induced landslide — plus ASCE 7-22/16/10 and ASCE 41 design values with response spectra, by site class and risk category.

USGS Qfaults · USGS Design Maps · USGS ComCat · CGS EZRI

Flood

Effective FIRM flood zone, Special Flood Hazard Area status, and static base flood elevation at the point.

FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer

Wildfire

Fire Hazard Severity Zone class from the 2024–25 maps, labeled to show whether the zone is adopted by the state or still only recommended locally.

CAL FIRE FHSZ (2024–25)

Landslide

Deep-seated landslide susceptibility class 0–10 at the point — distinct from, and alongside, the CGS regulatory zone check.

CGS MS58

Dam inundation

Every approved dam-breach inundation boundary the site falls within — dam name, hazard class, and failure scenario.

DSOD / Cal OES approved boundaries

Coastal & sea-level rise

Present-day 100-yr coastal storm exposure and the 100 cm SLR planning scenario — scenario IDs printed on the report.

USGS CoSMoS · NOAA SLR

Tsunami

Official state tsunami hazard area determination, read from the evacuation attribute — membership alone is never trusted.

CGS Tsunami Hazard Area

Seismic screening, ASCE design values, FEMA flood and regional risk context cover every U.S. address. The California state programs run at full depth in California — and outside their extent the screening says not covered, never “no hazard.”

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Quaternary faults — full national USGS database
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mapped fault segments screened per query
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authoritative services queried live
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code editions — ASCE 7 & ASCE 41
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receipts on every report — Appendix A
What you can do with it

Four things it does.

Screen one site, rank a list of them, generate the report, or check a report someone else wrote.

01 · Seconds

Screen any site

Drop a pin, paste coordinates, or search an address. Faults, zones, design values and all seven hazards resolve live — with two transparent indices that show their work.

02 · One paste

Rank a portfolio

Paste a program of sites and get them ranked by screening priority — seismic-only or full multi-hazard — with a CSV your PM can drop straight into the proposal.

03 · One click

Generate the report

A print-ready draft with fault-map, terrain-section and response-spectra figures, per-hazard determinations with citations — and a determination log any reviewer can re-run.

04 · Drop a PDF

Check the sub’s report

Verify a report someone else wrote: every stated determination re-derived live, with the sentence it came from and the query that answers it. See how →

Hours of data-pulls → the first minute of the project.

Fault search, AP check, design values, historic seismicity, regulatory zones, FIRM lookup, FHSZ, dam boundaries — the routine compilation that opens every study, compressed to a screening you can hand a senior reviewer. Spend the fee on judgment, not lookups.

Method

Checked by practicing engineers.

Senior geotechnical engineers went through the method line by line, and every correction they gave us shipped.

§ 01
Transparent indices, published weights
The Seismic Screening Index and multi-hazard Site Hazard Index are simple weighted composites — every component, weight and grade band is printed in-app and on the report. seismic 30 · flood 20 · wildfire 20 · landslide 10 · dam 10 · coastal 10. Nothing proprietary hides inside the number, so a reviewer can recompute it by hand.
§ 02
Official sources beat heuristics
When an authoritative determination exists, it wins: official CGS Alquist-Priolo zones (with quadrangle names) supersede proximity screening; tsunami reads the evacuation attribute, not polygon membership. Every determination cites its service.
§ 03
“Unavailable” is an answer
If a government service is down, that hazard reports service unavailable — not scored, and the composite is flagged partial. Outside a program's coverage it reports not covered — never “no hazard.” Weights never silently rescale. A determination is never invented to fill a box.
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Current data, by construction
Live queries mean the 2024–25 FHSZ maps, effective FIRM panels, ASCE 7-22 site classes and today's earthquake catalog — no stale snapshot to audit, no annual re-licensing of a dataset that moved.
The other half of the job

Now check the report someone else wrote.

Drop a consultant’s PDF and Credible Risk reads the determinations it states — each with the sentence and page it came from — then re-derives every one against the live source. What comes back is the report’s own words beside the government query that answers them.

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The model reads. It never judges.

Extraction turns prose into typed claims and stops there. Every verdict below it is a deterministic comparison against USGS, FEMA, CGS and CAL FIRE, under published tolerances.

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Right isn’t the same as complete.

A flood zone can be correct and still omit the regulatory floodway inside it. Those get their own verdict — Incomplete — because a reviewer’s question is whether the report is correctly scoped, not just correctly typed.

03

The finding leaves the building.

One click gives you a Word memo — findings, quotes, receipts, determination log — or a link that re-runs the whole check live in the recipient’s browser, with no login.

Report verification
geotechnical-report.pdf · 13 claims read
2 discrepancies found · 9 of 13 verified · 2 incomplete
Design value · Seismic Design Category Mismatch · S1
the reportD the sourceF — derived per ASCE 7 §11.6
ASCE 7-16 publishes no Seismic Design Category for this site and site class, so it is derived from the mapped values per §11.6: S1 = 0.77 g ≥ 0.75 g with Risk Category IV. The rule gives F; the report states D.
“The site is assigned to Seismic Design Category D.” p.4
USGS Seismic Design Web Services · source ↗
FEMA flood zone Incomplete · S2
the reportZone AE · in SFHA the sourceZone AE · FLOODWAY · in SFHA
Zone AE is correct. The NFHL polygon here is also mapped as regulatory floodway, which the report does not state — encroachment requires a no-rise certification under 44 CFR 60.3(d)(3).
FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer · source ↗
Every verdict carries the exact government query that produced it. A contradiction may mean the report is wrong — or that the mapped source changed after it was written.
Screening as infrastructure

The same determinations, as an API.

Every hazard, every index, one call — with the receipts included. Built for due-diligence platforms, underwriting pipelines, and portfolio monitoring: the physical-risk layer your product shouldn't have to build.

GET /api/hazards
$ curl "…/api/hazards?lat=33.7543&lng=-118.216" { "shi": { "score": 52, "grade": "C", "partial": false }, "hazards": { "flood": { "zone": "AE", "in_sfha": true, "static_bfe_ft": 8, "source": { "service": "FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer", "url": "https://hazards.fema.gov/…/28/query?…", "queried_at": "2026-07-16T15:19:30Z" } }, "dam": { "count": 3, "dams": […named, with scenarios] }, "fire": { "in": false, "source": {…} }, "coastal": { "storm_100yr_now": true, "receipt": {…} } }, "ssi": { "score": 53, "components": […shown, always] } }
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