What Is Augurisk and How Can You Check Disaster and Crime Risk for Your Home?

Augurisk is a US-focused risk lookup platform that produces an instant report on natural disaster and crime risk for a specific home, city, or neighborhood. You enter a location and get a risk level from Very Low to Very High, drawn from the platform's 12 proprietary risk models. It is aimed at people who want a quick read on a place before buying, renting, or moving — not at insurers or engineers who need underwriting-grade data.

What Augurisk covers

The platform splits its output into two broad categories:

• Natural disaster risk — flood, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail storms, blizzards, coastal flooding, rising sea, wildfires, drought, and earthquakes.
• Crime and societal risk — reported alongside the hazard data in the same report.

The site also organizes content by state and territory, so you can browse a regional page before drilling into a specific address. Examples from the site's own index:

That naming is a useful signal in itself: the state page tells you which hazard dominates the local model, so you know what to look at first.

How to check risk for your home

1. Go to augurisk.com and use the home-risk lookup on the landing page.
2. Enter your location — a home address, city, or neighborhood. The site describes the report as available at all three levels of granularity.
3. Read the risk rating. Results are presented on a five-step scale: Very Low, Low, Moderate, High, Very High.
4. Check the hazard breakdown, not just the headline number. A Moderate overall score can still hide a High flood or wildfire component, and that component is usually the one that affects insurance, evacuation planning, or resale.
5. Compare locations. Because the scale is consistent, you can run two or three candidate addresses and compare them side by side.

The report is described as instant and free, so there is no waiting period between entering an address and seeing results.

What the risk levels mean in practice

The five-level scale is a relative indicator, not a probability. Treat it as a screening tool:

• Very Low / Low — the modeled hazard is minor for that location; still worth confirming with local flood maps if you are buying.
• Moderate — a real but not dominant exposure; read the individual hazard rows to see what is driving it.
• High / Very High — the location sits in a meaningfully exposed area for at least one hazard. This is the point where you would pull official sources (FEMA flood maps, state wildfire zones) before making a decision.

Where Augurisk fits and where it does not

Good fit:

• Comparing neighborhoods or cities during a home search.
• Getting a fast second opinion on a listing's location.
• Understanding which hazard actually matters in a given state.

Not a substitute for:

• Official flood zone determinations used by lenders.
• Insurance quotes, which use their own models and underwriting rules.
• Site-specific engineering or geological surveys.

The site also notes it is open to acquisition inquiries and cites roughly 200K yearly users across its 12 risk models — useful context for judging how established the platform is, but not a factor in how you read a report.

Quick answers

Is it free? The site describes the home, city, and neighborhood report as instant and free. No pricing page or payment details are published, so treat any paid tier as unconfirmed.

Does it cover crime as well as disasters? Yes — crime risk is reported alongside natural hazard risk in the same lookup.

Can I browse without an address? Yes. State and territory pages (for example, Crime & Wildfire Risk in California) let you start at the regional level.

Does it cover US territories? Yes — American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands all have dedicated pages.