First Street

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Peer-reviewed property-level climate-risk provider (formerly First Street Foundation) scoring flood, fire, wind, heat, and air risk. Delivered as consumer-facing Risk Factor reports (riskfactor.com) and via three documented APIs -- Climate Risk API (point-level physical risk), Enterprise API (portfolio aggregation), and Raster Map API (peril raster layers). Free non-commercial lookups plus paid consumer subscriptions and enterprise quotes.

3.2 /5 composite score

Address-to-climate-risk layer -- three documented REST APIs (Climate Risk, Enterprise, Raster Map) return point-level flood/fire/wind/heat/air risk as JSON plus PDF reports and raster tiles; a public pricing page and free non-commercial Risk Factor lookups aid evaluation, with enterprise access quote-based.

Solid

Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion	Score	Evidence
Value for the price	3/5	freemium; consumer reports and subscription plus enterprise quote, free tier Source →
Agent Friendliness	4/5	API: Climate Risk API, Enterprise API, and Raster Map API documented at docs.firststreet.org/api Source →
Ease of adoption	3/5	--
Portability & lock-in	3/5	2 file formats
Interoperability	3/5	--

Pricing

Modelfreemium; consumer reports and subscription plus enterprise quote

Free tieryes

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Evidence

File formats

Format	Direction	Support
JSON	export	full -- Climate Risk API.
PDF	export	full -- Risk reports.

Sources

Pricing API docs

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