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

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't been easy to determine a property's flood risk. Many states don't have flood history disclosure requirements, and FEMA maps don't 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.   www.NewsForInvestors.com