Susan Crawford

Zillow has dropped climate risk scores from its residential real estate listings following complaints that the scores, which use data from the private risk-modeling firm First Street, were of debatable accuracy and were hurting sales. It’s a flashing warning sign that Washington needs to fix federal flood maps, calling for a fully funded, modernized federal flood mapping program and probabilistic, future-conditions, multi-peril mapping data that is public and subject to norms of oversight and transparency.

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