SUNDAY · JUL 12 · 2026

What the freeways, tanks, and floodplains put around an address.

An inspector checks the house. No one checks what surrounds it. NestCheck reads the public hazard records — flood, traffic, industrial, rail — and names what sits within a few hundred feet of the door, before you sign.

First report free

Full evaluations in NY, NJ, CT, MI. Anywhere else returns a health-hazard-only report.

Not your agent’s job. Outside your inspector’s scope. Not what your lender is checking. The check no one in the transaction is paid to run.

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Reads

Every evaluation reads four things about the property you check.

  1. What the air, soil, and groundwater registries record near this property.

  2. What the roads, rails, and grid run past this property.

  3. What the maps, permits, and compliance records already knew.

  4. What the people, the ground, and the data gaps leave behind.

Process

How NestCheck evaluates an address.

  1. Step 01

    Enter an address

    Any U.S. residential address. We geocode it through Google Places and lock the coordinates.

  2. Step 02

    Query the data

    EPA, FEMA, FHWA, HIFLD, HUD, OSM, and Census ACS. Real datasets with evidence-based thresholds — no language-model summaries.

  3. Step 03

    Read the report

    A scored, sourced report on health hazards, walk quality, green space, daily essentials, and transit. Every number traces back to its source.

Comparison

What NestCheck checks at every property.

Category NestCheck Zillow Redfin
Gas stations, Superfund sites & toxic emitters EPA UST · SEMS · TRI
FEMA flood zones National Flood Hazard Layer designation Partial Partial
Sidewalks, intersections & walk routes Actual walk times to specific venues Partial Partial
Parks, trails & tree canopy Loop potential · shade · amenity quality
Groceries, coffee & fitness within reach Walk time to best-rated venue per category
Buses, trains & bike routes Stations · commute times · reachability Partial Partial
Roads & traffic noise FHWA HPMS counts · road classification

“Partial” means a third-party listing surfaces an indicator (Walk Score, First Street) without evaluating it independently.

Provenance

Where the health checks pull their data.

Every check traces back to an authoritative source. Click through any finding in your report to see the dataset, the threshold, and the freshness date.

UST tanks EPA UST Finder2.2M tanks · 800K facilities
Superfund EPA SEMS1,300+ NPL sites · refreshed 2h
Toxic releases EPA TRI800+ chemicals · 21K facilities
Flood zones FEMA NFHL~90% U.S. population coverage
High-traffic roads FHWA HPMSAADT counts · all public roads
Power lines HIFLD69 kV–765 kV transmission lines
Rail corridors FRA Safety DataNational rail network
Air & EJ indicators EPA EJScreen13 environmental indicators
Coverage

Where NestCheck evaluations run today.

Full evaluation

4 states
NY NJ CT MI

All four signals scored: health, walk quality, green space, daily essentials. Includes school districts and transit.

CA · soon TX · soon FL · soon IL · soon MD · soon DC · soon VA · soon

Health checks only

50 states
Any U.S. address

Federal datasets — EPA, FEMA, FHWA, HIFLD — cover the entire country. Enter any U.S. address for an environmental hazard report.

Roadmap

Which state should we support next?

Votes shape our priority list. We weight by request density when we plan the next expansion sprint.

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