This is the report we generate for any Davidson County address. It is four pages, delivered as a PDF by email within twenty-four hours of order. Below is a section-by-section walkthrough using a representative Forest Hills address. The structure is identical regardless of where the address falls — the contents are not.
§ I · The cover page
Page one of every report establishes four things at a glance: the address itself, an overall environmental score from zero to one hundred, the rating band that score falls into, and a one-paragraph editorial summary that explains the result in plain language. The score is the first thing readers see, and it is meant to be defensible at a glance — an executive summary of a four-page document.
Nashville, TN 37215
Address verified by Census Bureau geocoder. OpenStreetMap parcel-level cross-check confirmed.
- Environmentally clean compared to most addresses we score
- One golf-course finding noted — see Score Components for context
- No immediate action required — informational findings only
The score is one number, but it is calculated against thirteen separately weighted categories. The narrative paragraph immediately summarizes the categories that registered findings — every report leads with what is actually in the public record at that address, before any further detail.
§ II · Score Components
Page two breaks the overall score into its thirteen scored categories. Each category receives its own zero-to-one-hundred score, its own rating, and a one-line note explaining what was found. This is where readers can see, line by line, what the engine actually weighed.
A single moderate finding does not lower the overall score dramatically — the scoring engine is calibrated so that a clean profile with one notable flag still reads as Excellent overall. Readers see exactly which category drove the deduction and can decide for themselves whether the finding is material to them.
§ III · Records Found Within One Mile
Page three is the bibliography of the report — every facility, site, or feature actually identified within scoring range, with distance, direction, status, and source agency for each one. If the report says a UST is at 0.92 miles southeast and listed as closed, the row identifier and source agency are right there for the reader to verify directly.
Two findings, fully sourced. Forest Hills Shell shows up because TDEC's UST registry includes every registered tank — closed, active, or otherwise — and we surface them all. The "closed" status matters: a closed and remediated tank a mile away is meaningfully different from an active facility with a release on file.
§ IV · Wind & Exposure Context
Distance alone is incomplete. A facility 0.4 miles upwind is not the same exposure as a facility 0.4 miles downwind, and a Parcelscope report says so directly. Every report includes a Wind & Exposure block that names the prevailing wind direction at the nearest NOAA station and applies it to each finding.
Based on 2014–2023 hourly observations from NOAA BNA station (Nashville International Airport). On prevailing SW winds, facilities to the NE are generally downwind of this address; facilities to the SW are upwind. Groundwater pathways operate independently of wind direction.
On prevailing SW winds, the country club is upwind of this address — the relevant context for airborne pesticide-drift exposure cited in the 2025 JAMA Network Open study (Krzyzanowski et al.).
This block is one of the things that distinguishes Parcelscope from a generic environmental records search. Anyone can list a country club at a quarter mile. Saying it sits upwind of you, on the prevailing southwest wind, is the kind of context that changes how a reader interprets the same distance.
§ V · Score Context & Data Sources
The final page closes with the rating-band scale (so readers can place this score against the broader population) and a complete list of the data sources behind the report. Every public agency we read from is named — federal, state, and local — alongside a clear disclaimer about what a Parcelscope report is and is not.
The data sources are listed by jurisdiction — federal (EPA, FAA, NOAA, U.S. Census), state (TDEC programs), local (Metro Nashville Public Works and Parks), and OpenStreetMap. Every report we generate, for every address, draws from the same set. There is no premium tier, no withheld data — we publish the full source list with each report.
§ VI · What is not in this report
It is worth being explicit about what a Parcelscope report does not attempt to do. It is not a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment under ASTM E1527 — that is a regulated process performed by a licensed environmental professional and costs an order of magnitude more. It is not legal, real estate, or medical advice. It is not a guarantee that no contamination exists at the property; public databases reflect what has been reported, not what is necessarily there.
What it is: a comprehensive read of the public environmental record for one address, rendered in plain language, with every finding cited to its source agency. For most homebuyers, that is the layer that has been missing from due diligence — and the reason Parcelscope exists.