About
EnviroMetrics is an app and a newsroom. The app takes 80 environmental readings for any US address and tells you what each one means. The newsroom explains where those readings come from, what they measure, and — the part most sources leave out — what they cannot tell you about one building.
Why we built it
Most of what is known about the environment at your address is already public. The EPA, NOAA, USGS, FEMA, the CDC and a dozen other agencies publish it, continuously, for free. Almost none of it is readable by the person who actually lives there.
It is spread across incompatible systems, published at geographies that rarely match a property, and written for the agency’s own purposes rather than yours. A radon estimate attached to a ZIP code, a flood zone drawn to a regulatory boundary, a health figure surveyed by county — each is a real measurement of something, and none of them is a measurement of your house.
We put them in one place, name the agency behind each one, and say what it can and cannot see.
What we will not do
We do not fill gaps with estimates. When a reading is unavailable for an address, the app says so rather than showing a plausible number, and an article says so rather than working around it. An invented figure is indistinguishable from a measured one once it is on a screen, and this whole product is worth nothing if that line is crossed.
We do not publish a claim without naming where it came from. Every article names the agency, the year and the report where one exists.
We run no advertising network and sell nothing about you: the ads here are our own images, placed by us. What we do run is Google Analytics. It sets cookies in your browser and reports your visit to Google, who process it for us. We read it as pages, referrers and totals, and we do not try to work out who you are. The Google Analytics features that follow a reader between sites or build an advertising profile are switched off, and any content blocker stops the whole thing.
Where the readings come from
The EPA, the CDC, FEMA, the FCC, the FAA, the US Census Bureau, USGS, NASA, the National Weather Service, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, OpenStreetMap, Open-Meteo, OpenCellID, the USDA Cropland Data Layer served by George Mason University, the US Forest Service tree canopy layer served on the federal GeoPlatform, IQVIA through pollen.com, and Google for pollen.
Six readings and every address label in the app are built from OpenStreetMap, whose data is maintained by volunteers and available under the Open Database License. Where a feature has not been traced yet, we cannot show it to you — which is a limitation of those six readings and nowhere else.
How it is paid for
Three ways, and it is worth knowing all of them. The app has a paid Premium tier. We sell consults, which are paid conversations with somebody who assesses buildings for a living. And some pages carry advertising, which is labelled as advertising.
None of that changes a reading. A reading is whatever the agency published, and there is no arrangement under which it could be anything else.
When we get it wrong
Tell us. A wrong reading or a wrong article is the most useful message you can send us, and we will check it against the source and publish a correction if it is ours. Write to hello@envirometrics.ai.
Who publishes it
NOYO Labs, St. Petersburg, Florida.