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by arkades 2819 days ago
> Alerting people of a home being in a flood plain, hurricane path, etc would help.

I would pay for a service that gives me a reasonable 10-50 year estimate of climate change impacts on a given real estate area. I haven't been able to find this so far. Presumably very large RE investors have access to such information, but for the average consumer...?

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It seems unreasonable to expect any human to be able to reasonably predict anything 10+ years into the future with the kind of accuracy needed to provide climate change impacts of a given area. Only easy one is probably water levels rising causing places next to the ocean to go underwater.

Buy at a decent altitude, higher up than surrounding areas where water can drain into, and that has access to a water and food source which seem resilient. But who knows when a fire or flood or earthquake or whatever will come ruin your plan.