About
The environmental facts about a home, before you sign for it.
Most of what decides whether a house is a healthy place to live is already a matter of public record. Almost none of it reaches the person signing the mortgage. HealthDeed exists to close that gap for one address at a time.
Why it exists
A home inspection is thorough about the building. It checks the roof, the wiring, the foundation, the furnace. It is not designed to tell you what is in the soil, what the drinking water system has been cited for, whether the parcel sits in a flood zone, or what has been released into the air a quarter of a mile upwind.
That information is not secret. The EPA, FEMA, the CDC and the Census Bureau publish it, and much of it is free to query. But it is scattered across agencies, keyed to identifiers most people have never heard of, and formatted for regulators rather than residents. A buyer with two weeks of due diligence and no environmental training has effectively no way to assemble it.
A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment does this properly and costs a few thousand dollars, which makes sense for a commercial transaction and almost never happens for a family buying a house.
What HealthDeed does
You enter an address. We resolve it to a location and its census tract, query government records live, and return a score across six categories — air, water, soil and contamination, natural hazards, community health, and radon — with the findings that drove it and a citation and retrieval date on every figure.
The reasoning is meant to be arguable. If you think a weighting is wrong, the methodology states exactly what it is so you can say so.
The rule we hold ourselves to
Only data that is specific to a property is allowed to move its score. Every indicator is classified by the resolution of the data behind it — measured at the parcel, modeled at the tract or county, or available only at state level.
State-level figures are reported as regional context and excluded from the score entirely. They are identical for every address in the state, so including them could not distinguish one house from another — it would only dilute the data that can. A report that says “four of six categories scored” is telling you the truth about what was available, not hiding a failure.
What it is not
HealthDeed reads public records. It does not visit, sample or test anything, and it is not a substitute for the tests that would settle a question definitively:
- A radon zone is a regional prediction. Only a test in the actual house measures the radon in it.
- Water system compliance describes the utility, not the pipes between the main and your tap.
- Proximity to a facility is a distance, not an exposure measurement.
- A report is a screening tool and a starting point for questions — for an inspector, a seller, or a lab. It is not a professional environmental assessment, and it is not medical, legal or financial advice.
We also do not score neighbourhoods, and we publish nothing about the people who live in them. No demographic data, no crime data, no school ratings. The subject is the environment around a property, and expanding past that would make the product something we do not want to build.
How it is paid for
Checking an address is free, and the full breakdown is free with an email address. The complete Property Health Report — every indicator in depth, questions written for your specific findings, estimated mitigation costs, and a PDF — is not on sale yet. When it is, it will be a one-time payment for one address, never a subscription.
There are no ads. We do not sell, rent or broker your data, and we do not sell the addresses people search. That is stated plainly in the privacy policy, and it is a constraint on the business model rather than a preference.
Where the data comes from
Every figure comes from a named public source, queried at the time you run the report: EPA facility, Superfund and hazardous-waste records, EPA drinking-water compliance through ECHO, FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer, the EPA Map of Radon Zones, live EPA air monitors, CDC PLACES tract health estimates, and Census housing and geography data.
When a source is unavailable, the report says so and marks the gap. It does not quietly substitute an estimate and present it as a reading.
Corrections
Public records contain errors, and so will we. If a figure looks wrong for an address you know, tell us and we will check it against the source and correct it. The contact form reaches us.
Who builds it
HealthDeed was founded and developed by Abdullah Hassan.