Your Home: Risk Assessment

This assignment was locked Dec 8, 2024 at 11:59pm.

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article Links to an external site.presents information about a tool to assess the flooding and wildfire risk for every home in the United States. For this assignment, you need to open the web based tool Links to an external site. , enter your home address and answer the following questions:

What is your flood risk on a scale of 1 to 10?
- What are some flood damage prevention measures and are there any that you might envision using?
What is your fire factor on a scale of 1 to 10?
- What is the chance of your home being in a fire in the next year, 15 years, 30 years?
- What is an ember zone?
  - What are some means of Fire Damage Prevention? Are there any you might envision using?
What is the heat factor?
- Over the next 30 years, what increase in the number of days with a heat index of 93 degrees F?
- What are some heat safety solutions and are there any you might envision using?