The baseline receipts
- Calibrated FEMA risk and hazard scores
- Federal disaster declaration history
- Nearby EPA TRI chemical filings
- Source links and clear caveats
About
We checked.
It's public data.
How Fucked Is My ZIP? turns government risk models, disaster history, live conditions, and environmental records into a report you'll actually read. The joke gets you in the door. The receipts are the part that matters.
Two layers, one report
The public verdict is fast. An account opens the drawers.
The deeper local file
- Live AQI, weather, and alerts
- Superfund, radon, and ECHO receipts
- CDC health, USGS earthquake, and water context
- Saved reports and side-by-side ZIP comparison
What we do
You type a ZIP. We pull the receipts.
Enter a five-digit US ZIP code and we pull public federal data for the matched county: heat, wildfire, drought, and flood risk, plus the real history of federally declared disasters there. A separate ZIP-area analysis finds nearby facilities that filed 2024 EPA Toxics Release Inventory reports and opens the chemical-level filing details when they are available. Signed-in reports add live air and weather signals, nearby EPA Superfund files, county radon potential, EPA ECHO compliance and enforcement receipts, and CDC PLACES model-based health context, plus USGS long-term ground-motion and recorded-earthquake receipts. Signed-in reports also keep possible public water-system records separate from nearby environmental sampling inventories.
We turn those layers into a readable report, a calibrated score out of 100, and a verdict with a sense of humor. The score checks whether risk is broad instead of letting one extreme category decide the entire verdict. The verdict is rude. The underlying numbers, classifications, release quantities, and source links are not invented.
Where the data comes from
All public. All government. No street address required.
We do not need your name or street address to generate a report. The risk and environmental analysis is built from open US government datasets:
Risk and disaster history
FEMA National Risk Index, OpenFEMA, and US Census geography
County-scale hazard scores, federally declared disaster history, and the ZCTA-to-county bridge that connects a ZIP search to those records.
Industrial and regulated facilities
EPA TRI, Superfund, Radon Zones, and ECHO
Nearby chemical filings, Superfund site records, county radon potential, and facility compliance and enforcement receipts. Proximity and filings are evidence, not exposure measurements.
Conditions right now
AirNow and National Weather Service
Current AQI observations, hourly weather context, and active public alerts loaded only when a signed-in reader reaches that part of the report.
Health, earthquakes, and water
CDC PLACES, USGS, EPA SDWIS / ECHO, and Water Quality Portal
Modeled population health context, seismic hazard and recorded events, possible public water-system records, and nearby environmental sampling inventories.
We just make it readable. We do not sell the data, and we do not sell you.
Methodology preview
ZIPs are messy. We label the mess.
The methodology page explains every current source, how the verdict is calibrated, what geography each receipt uses, when the data updates, and where the analysis stops.
- ZIP entered
- Census ZCTA match
- County FIPS
- FEMA county data
- Disaster history
- EPA facility receipts
- Live and local context
What this is not
The honest, slightly less funny part.
Geography has edges
FEMA and disaster history are primarily county-level. Facility distance starts from a Census ZCTA internal point. None of it describes a parcel, block, home, or personal exposure.
A receipt is not a diagnosis
TRI, Superfund, ECHO, radon, health, earthquake, and water records each answer different questions. A filing, nearby site, model, or sample does not by itself prove contamination, illness, or future damage.
Public data has lag
Some records update live; others update weekly, quarterly, or annually. Missing records can reflect program coverage and reporting limits, not proof that nothing happened.
Start here. Verify there.
This is an independent research starting point, not emergency, medical, legal, insurance, financial, or real-estate advice. Important decisions deserve the original source and a qualified professional.
In short: this is a tool for curiosity and a starting point for research, provided as-is, with no warranty. Use your own judgment.
Where this goes next
More local. More current. Still fast.
The next useful layers are the ones that add a different kind of evidence: parcel-level flood-map links and additional state and local environmental records.
Accounts already support saved and comparable reports. Next comes optional monitoring when a meaningful local receipt changes. Every addition has to earn its place without turning a fast report into a loading screen.