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Neither. A screening reads public government records about the location; nobody visits the property, samples soil or water, or examines the structure. It works earlier in the process, and for less: it shows whether this address gives you a reason to order a radon test, a geotechnical review, a Phase I ESA — or none of them.

Federal primary sources: FEMA’s effective flood maps and disaster declarations, EPA registries for Superfund, brownfields, hazardous-waste handlers, toxics releases, storage tanks and public water systems, seismic and landslide data from USGS, the National Wetlands Inventory kept by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, US Forest Service wildfire hazard data, and the Census Bureau geocoder. Every layer names the source and the data date it was read from.

One US residential address, screened in full. Ten layers of federal record — EPA, FEMA, USGS, USFWS and the USDA Forest Service among the sources — each graded, each backed by measurable evidence and a primary-source link, with per-grade counts rolled into an overall reading. The questions worth asking come attached, as do next steps sorted by where you are in the transaction. Delivery is a web page, a PDF and a share link you control, and the data can be re-run once inside the first thirty days.

A few minutes, in the usual case. Feel free to close the tab — an email carries the link, and the link stays live. A failure on our side refunds itself.

No — it means the layer came back empty in the sources we read, within the coverage those sources declare. Government maps have blind spots, coarse scales and revision lags; that is why every layer spells out what its source cannot rule out. We never translate a quiet record into the word “safe”.

The coverage preview answers that before you pay: it lists which layers hold data here, and an order for a location with too little coverage is declined rather than filled. Should one source drop out while your screening is being built, its layer is graded “no data”. And a screening that cannot match its own preview triggers a refund on its own.

Residential addresses across all fifty states and DC, provided official records can pin the address down. Rural roads and brand-new construction sometimes defeat the geocoder or fall outside mapped coverage; the preview stage exists to say so openly, instead of letting a gap-ridden screening reach checkout.

Yes. Generate the viewing link inside your screening and pass it along. Whoever opens it signs into nothing and learns nothing about you — not your email, not how you paid. The link dies the moment you revoke it, and the downloadable PDF holds the same content.

Nothing expires and nothing needs signing into: the link from your delivery email opens the screening indefinitely. If the delivery email has gone missing too, a note from your purchase address is enough — we resend the link inside one business day.

A button in the screening header rebuilds it against today’s sources — once, at no charge, for thirty days after purchase. Useful when a closing date drifts. Your original stays exactly as it was, original date included; the rebuilt version is marked as a re-run.

Scroll to the bottom of the screening and open “Report an issue”. Your screening number and the layer in question are filled in for you, and supporting records can be attached. Every submission is read by a person; a confirmed correction becomes a new version, dated and annotated with what changed.

Two cases, both refunded in full: the coverage shown at checkout proves undeliverable — this one happens on its own, with no request needed — or an error on our side is confirmed as material. The exact terms live in the Refund Policy.

On request. An email from your purchase address starts the process; removal of the screening and of your email address completes inside thirty days. Share links you created go dark along with it.