Climate risk assessment data

What is ClimateCheck?

ClimateCheck is a climate risk analytics provider that measures how much more extreme five physical hazards will become by 2050 at the zip code level across the United States. Through Dewey, academic researchers access ClimateCheck ratings for heat, storm, drought, fire, and precipitation alongside 30+ other providers in one place.

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What academic researchers should know about ClimateCheck climate risk data

ClimateCheck combines the latest climate science with proprietary models to produce forward looking ratings that reflect changing frequency, intensity, and duration of hazard events. Every U.S. zip code receives a composite ClimateCheck rating plus individual ratings for heat, storm, drought, fire, and precipitation. Ratings are designed to be interpretable on a 0 to 100 scale so researchers can rank locations, build panels, or merge with property, demographic, and financial datasets without heavy preprocessing.

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Why academic researchers choose ClimateCheck on Dewey

Most physical climate risk datasets are built for insurers, mortgage desks, and corporate real estate teams, not for academics. Dewey brings ClimateCheck to researchers alongside 30+ complementary providers, so you can connect hazard ratings to the rest of your analysis in one workflow. Pair ClimateCheck with property records from ATTOM, consumer mobility from Advan Research and SafeGraph, private company data from BrightQuery, or rental listings from RentHub to study how climate risk is showing up in housing markets, migration patterns, local economies, and household balance sheets. Query ClimateCheck as Parquet with the Dewey Client, DuckDB, Python, R, or the Dewey MCP.

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ClimateCheck academic research ideas and use cases

• Climate risk capitalization in housing markets. Economists can merge ClimateCheck zip code ratings with ATTOM transactions, assessor records, and AVM valuations to measure whether home prices, rents, and insurance costs are moving with measured heat, flood, or fire exposure, and where disclosure or policy changes accelerate that pricing.
• Climate migration and locational choice. Demographers and urban researchers can combine ClimateCheck with consumer mobility from Advan Research and SafeGraph to study how households relocate in response to compounding hazards, whether movers sort into safer locations, and how inflows reshape receiving communities.
• Municipal finance and climate resilience. Public finance scholars can link ClimateCheck projections to municipal bond issuance, property tax bases, and local budgets to examine how climate exposure shows up in borrowing costs, credit spreads, and infrastructure investment across exposed and insulated jurisdictions.
• Insurance, lending, and household financial resilience. Researchers can pair ClimateCheck with HMDA, consumer credit panels, and ATTOM foreclosure filings to study how insurers and lenders price climate risk, how availability of coverage shifts over time, and how shocks translate into delinquency, forbearance, and default.
• Public health and the built environment. Health researchers can combine ClimateCheck heat and precipitation ratings with hospital utilization, mortality, and mobility data to quantify heat related morbidity, flood displacement effects, and the health co benefits of tree canopy, cooling centers, and other resilience investments.
• Equity and environmental justice. Pair ClimateCheck with census demographics, school boundaries, and parcel data to examine how hazard exposure is distributed across race, income, and housing tenure, and how new construction, zoning, and federal investment are redrawing the map of who bears the most climate risk.

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