Assess Property Hazard Risk
assess_property_hazardAssess natural hazard exposure for a single US property address.
Validates and geocodes the address (US Census Bureau geocoder), then looks up FEMA flood zone, wildfire hazard, USGS seismic PGA, active fault proximity, and coastal proximity. Returns a location-only hazard score (0-100) and tier. US addresses only; no building characteristics required.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| address | Yes |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| lat | No | Latitude of the matched address | |
| lng | No | Longitude of the matched address | |
| sfha | No | Whether the address is in a Special Flood Hazard Area | |
| message | No | Explanation of why validation failed, if it did | |
| validated | Yes | Whether the address was successfully validated/geocoded | |
| flood_zone | No | FEMA flood zone code (e.g. AE, X, VE); null if unavailable | |
| hazard_tier | No | Hazard tier label: Low, Moderate, High, or Very High | |
| seismic_pga | No | USGS peak ground acceleration in g (ASCE 7-22) | |
| hazard_score | No | Deterministic location-only hazard score, 0-100 | |
| input_address | Yes | The address as provided by the caller | |
| hazard_drivers | No | Up to 5 human-readable factors driving the score | |
| wildfire_score | No | Coarse wildfire hazard tier, 0 (none) to 4 (very high) | |
| flood_available | No | Whether the FEMA flood zone lookup succeeded | |
| matched_address | No | Normalized address returned by the geocoder | |
| fault_distance_miles | No | Distance to the nearest known active fault, in miles | |
| coastal_distance_miles | No | Distance to the nearest coastline, in miles |