Features · Place intelligence

The ground
and the county,
for any address.

The listing tells you the square footage and the kitchen. It doesn’t tell you the flood zone, the fire zone, the soil, or the tax rate. Give Eave an address and it looks those up from the public sources that publish them, marks every value with where it came from, and says estimate when it is one.

Start your search →How it fits the engine

Free for three homes and their facts. No card. Runs in any browser.

Works inResidential Commercial Buyers

The Eave for Buyers shortlist: three homes with list price, all-in range, and fact chips for flood zone, fire severity, school district, tax rate, and broadband, each with its source

Shortlist · 14 Alder Street

A shortlist card: 14 Alder Street, $612,500 list, all-in $640 to 668k, flood zone X from FEMA, fire moderate from CAL FIRE, Atascadero Unified, tax 1.1% estimate

The listing gap

A listing is written to sell.
The county wrote the rest.

A listing covers the kitchen and the square footage. Whether the house sits in a flood zone, in a fire hazard zone, or on clay that swells and shrinks is written down somewhere else: in maps kept by FEMA, CAL FIRE, USGS, and the USDA, and in county records.

Place intelligence goes and gets those facts for every address you give it, and keeps the trail back to where each one came from.

Facts with sources. Never judgments about an area, its schools, or its people.

Every value

shows where it came from and when

Estimate

written beside anything researched rather than looked up

A dash

when a value is blank, never a zero

How it works

Place it, look it up,
label it, file it.

Start with an address

That’s all it takes. Eave places the home with the Census geocoder, which also names the county and the municipality it sits in.

Ask the public sources

Eave calls FEMA, CAL FIRE, USGS, the USDA, the EPA, the Census, and the FCC directly, and takes the official zone or value each one publishes.

Research what no map holds

Climate zone, frost dates, rainfall, permit rules, and the property-tax rate come from web research, and each one is labelled estimate.

File each fact with its source

Every value lands on the home with its source. A signed natural hazard disclosure outranks Eave’s own map lookups.

What it looks up

Nine facts from the agencies
that publish them.

These come straight from public sources. Eave shows the official zone or value and names the agency; it never swaps in a vendor’s score.

Flood zone

The official FEMA zone and the map panel it comes from, from the National Flood Hazard Layer. An A or V zone means the lender will require flood insurance.

FEMA

Fire hazard severity

The state fire hazard severity zone for the address, which shapes your insurance options as much as your risk. California homes only.

CAL FIRE · California

Seismic

The USGS seismic design values for the site: the figures engineers use when they design for earthquakes.

USGS

Soil

The soil type from the USDA soil survey, and whether it’s expansive clay, the kind that swells when wet and shrinks when dry under a foundation.

USDA soil survey

Air quality

Air quality for the location, from the EPA.

EPA

School district

The district the home is zoned into, by name, from Census boundaries. Nothing more, by design: no ratings, no rankings.

Census · district only

Electric utility

Whose service territory the address sits in, so you know who to call before you own it.

Service territory

Broadband

What the FCC’s broadband data shows as available at the address.

FCC

County and municipality

The county and the city or town the home sits in, which decide whose permit office and whose tax rate apply.

Census geocoder

What it estimates

Some answers aren’t on a map.
Those say estimate.

Frost dates and a tax rate matter just as much, but no single public map holds them. Eave researches these for the location and labels every one of them as an estimate, wherever it appears.

Climate

Climate zoneFirst frost dateLast frost dateTemperaturesRainfall

Local rules

Permit rulesZoningHOA

Money and service

Property-tax rateUtilities

Compare money rows for three homes: list price, cost to bring it up as a range with item counts, all-in range, and a property tax rate marked estimate for each — The tax rate says estimate because it is one. A blank shows a dash.

Estimates say estimate

Anything researched instead of looked up carries the word beside it, like the 1.1% tax rate on a candidate. Lookups name their agency; estimates never borrow one.

Built before 1978

A home built before 1978 gets a lead paint flag. That’s the year lead-based paint was banned for homes, so older houses may still have it under newer coats.

Signed paper outranks the map

A signed natural hazard disclosure outranks Eave’s own map lookups. The record shows which source each zone came from, so you can see what the seller signed and what the map says.

HOW DISCLOSURES ARE READ →

Buyers · Compare

Every candidate, side by side

The facts sit on every home you add: flood, fire, seismic, broadband, electric utility, school district, property tax, county, and municipality. Pull the facts again whenever you want them fresh.

Compare lines up the top three on the ground and the county, next to the price, the cost to bring it up, and the bones of each house. Every value has its source.

COMPARING TWO HOUSES ON WHAT THEY REALLY COST →

Compare, top three side by side: list price, cost to bring it up, all-in range, property tax estimate, year built, roof and water heater age with sources, flood, fire, and seismic zones, and school district — Three homes on the same rows, every value with its source.

Buyers · Shortlist

The ground is part of where the search stands

A note at the top of the shortlist says where the search stands, and the facts feed it. A home in a flood zone gets named, with the question worth asking before you fall for the house.

The note talks about the ground, the price, and the paperwork. It never says anything about who lives nearby, and a school district appears by name only.

WHAT A LISTING NEVER TELLS YOU →

Where this stands: Alder is the one to see Saturday, it prices highest all-in but the ground is clean; Pine Court sits in a flood zone, ask about insurance before you fall for it — A flood zone, named, with the question it raises.

Residential · Utilities

Your providers, found from the address

Set up a home and Eave already knows some of it: the climate, the municipality, and the electric utility. On Utilities, providers found from the address are marked Found by Eave, with a nudge to check the number once.

Sources lists the lookups under Property data — automatic. The Upkeep Plan shows your home’s risk profile, each flag linked to its source, and the first and last frost dates time the Season ahead on Tasks.

CONNECTED SOURCES, EXPLAINED →

Utilities and providers for a home in Boise: Idaho Power, Intermountain Gas, and City of Boise utility billing, each marked Found by Eave, check the number once; sewer, trash, and internet waiting with Find it for me, Scan a bill, or Add manually — Found from the address, marked so you check the number once.

Same engine, every product

One set of lookups,
wherever an address shows up.

The lookup that puts a flood zone on a buyer’s shortlist is the same one behind a homeowner’s risk profile and a building’s utilities. What changes is what each product does with the facts.

Eave for Buyers

Facts on every candidate

Flood, fire, seismic, broadband, electric utility, school district, property tax, county, and municipality on every home you add, compared side by side. Three homes and their facts are free.

BUYERS →

Residential Upkeep · supporting

Your home’s risk profile

The Upkeep Plan tab shows the risk profile with a source link on each flag, free. Setup starts with what Eave already found, and frost dates time the Season ahead.

RESIDENTIAL →

Commercial Upkeep · supporting

Utilities from the address

Commercial setup finds the building’s utilities from its address, so the providers are on file before anyone digs out a bill.

COMMERCIAL →

Fair housing

Facts about the ground.
Never judgments about people.

Where a home sits is a fact. What an area is “like” is an opinion, and Eave doesn’t offer one.

What it won’t say. Eave doesn’t rate, score, rank, or describe a school, a neighbourhood, or the people who live there, and it doesn’t use a home’s location to steer anyone toward or away from it. It shows the district by name, the official zones from the agencies that publish them, and estimates labelled as estimates. It isn’t insurance, engineering, or legal advice either: a flood zone tells you what the map says, and the professionals you work with tell you what it means for you. Fair housing at Eave →

Questions, answered

Common questions.

Where do the facts come from?

Public sources, called directly: the FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, CAL FIRE (California only), USGS, the USDA soil survey, the EPA, Census boundaries, and the FCC. Every value is labelled with its source. Eave shows the official designation and never presents a vendor’s proprietary score as a fact.

What’s the difference between a lookup and an estimate?

A lookup comes from an agency’s own map or data, like the flood zone. An estimate is researched for the location, like the frost dates or the property-tax rate, and it always says estimate beside it. A blank shows a dash, never a zero.

Does Eave rate schools or neighbourhoods?

No. Eave shows the school district a home is zoned into, by name, and nothing more. It never rates, scores, ranks, or characterizes a school, an area, or the people who live there. Fair housing at Eave →

What if the seller’s disclosure says something different?

A signed natural hazard disclosure outranks Eave’s own map lookups. Eave reads the flood, fire, and seismic zones off the disclosure and keeps track of which source each one came from. Document intelligence →

Does it cost anything?

On Eave for Buyers, three homes and their facts are free, and looking up an address is never a document read. Homeowners get the risk profile in the Upkeep Plan tab free, on any plan. See pricing →

Does Eave send weather alerts?

No. Place intelligence is about where the home sits, not what the weather is doing this week. Frost dates, temperatures, and rainfall are estimates for the location, and the frost dates time the Season ahead on Tasks.

I already own my home. Where do I see this?

In the Upkeep Plan, under your home’s risk profile, and on Sources under Property data — automatic. Utilities found from the address are marked Found by Eave. Connected sources →

The rest of the engine

Every capability feeds the others.

Each one is useful alone. Together they’re why a receipt in your inbox ends up as a reminder in your plan. See how they fit together →

Bring it inSourcesAccounts you link and things you hand over, read into the record, with you reviewing what gets saved.Bring it inCaptureSay it, snap it, or type it.Bring it inDocument intelligenceAny document, recognized and read into facts filed where they belong, with every version kept.Know the homeHome knowledge graphOne record per property where spaces, systems, documents, projects, and people all connect.Know the homeProduct knowledge graphWhat the maker says about your exact model: its upkeep schedule, known issues by age, and parts.Decide what’s nextPlans and prioritiesThe Upkeep Score, a 12-month plan, and one ranked list of what needs you this week.Decide what’s nextDIY or proDo it yourself, learn how, or hire it out: materials, tutorials, and local pros for every job.

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The groundand the county,for any address.

A listing is written to sell.The county wrote the rest.

Place it, look it up,label it, file it.