Episode 50: Checking the Climate Changes

Skylar Olsen, Principal Economist at Climate Check, joined us this week. We talked about how the Climate Check service, how they are seeking make this data accessible to all consumers and real estate professionals, and how climate change will affect buyers’ choices about where they live, and how we are going to have to make our homes and areas resilient to the changes brought by massive changes in our climate.

- What is Climate Check?

- What are the data sources?

- FEMA is looking at now; they are looking at now + future

- Evaluating risk factors

- Storm risk; extreme weather risks increasing

- Western PA has high risk for extreme storms

- Washington County, PA

- Flood risk of 87; what does that mean?

- Residential vs commercial risk awareness

- What’s more impactful for people making decisions, flood or fire?

- How to make the property more resilient