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The hazard file, from the maps that decide the premium.

The FEMA flood zone and the panel it came off, the federal wetland inventory, the EPA's compliance record for every regulated site nearby, and the assessment with the prior year beside it. No state fault or shaking layers: those are California's and this city has none.

The questions it answers

What has the fire department cited?
Are there open building violations?
What is the construction type and year?
Which hazard zones apply here?
Is there unpermitted work?
Can I use this to price a policy?

The sections that earn their keep

The underwriting extractEvery COPE-shaped fact the report holds — construction, occupancy, protection, exposure — as one flat CSV or JSON per address, beside every report, built to be keyed into a rating system rather than read.

FEMA flood zoneZone, SFHA standing, panel and effective date — the fields the application actually asks for.

Earthquake scenarios and historyModeled shaking beside the earthquakes that actually happened here, which is what a legend cannot say.

Fire safetyViolations at the parcel and the department's activity nearby, from the department's own record.

Electrical and plumbing permitsThe knob-and-tube question, answered from the record: every trade permit on the parcel, with dates — evidence of the rewire and the re-pipe, or the absence of either.

The EPA's compliance recordEvery site around the address the agency holds a record for, and how many are out of compliance today, formally acted against, or have paid a penalty — environmental exposure on the block, from the regulator rather than from a vendor's model.

Mapped wetlandsWhether the federal inventory maps a wetland where the address stands, counted apart from what is merely nearby and apart from open water, which is the bay and not a constraint on the parcel.

Every figure names its dataset and date, every report is receipted in an audit log, and nothing is blended into a score — documentation shaped to survive a market-conduct exam, not just to price a risk.

Nothing here needs a compliance read. The report contains no scores, grades or rankings — no safety rating, no school grade, no neighborhood letter. Those are the classic proxies for what the Fair Housing Act protects, and this product refuses them by design: you get counts, comparisons and sources. It names no person, and it is not a consumer report.

Written for you

How to read a Washington reportWho keeps which record in the District, why an address here needs a quadrant, and the pair of numbers this city publishes that most cities do not.Why the District asks which quadrant1st Street exists four times over. The quadrant is not decoration on a Washington address, it is part of it, and a report cannot be run without one.This year's assessment, and last year's beside itThe District publishes the current assessment and the prior one on the same row. That pair answers a question a single number cannot.What Washington files, and under what nameThe permit type column does not say what the permit is for. The subtype does, and knowing that is the difference between finding a demolition and finding nothing.

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