Realtors just forced Zillow to hide a key piece of information about buying a home. Here’s why

Zillow used to show climate risk scores on every listing—now, thanks to realtor pressure, they’re gone.

Until recently, when you looked at a house for sale on Zillow, you could see property-specific scores for the risk of flooding, wildfires, wind from storms and hurricanes, extreme heat, and air quality. The numbers came from First Street, a nonprofit that uses peer-reviewed methodologies to calculate “climate risk.” But Zillow recently removed those scores after pressure from CRMLS, one of the large real-estate listing services that supplies its data.