Every CheckHazard report lists the nearest schools, health facilities, and major roads within 2 km of the address. It is not a lifestyle section. It is there so you can ask whether the places you would run to are on the same side of the flood as you are.
Every CheckHazard report has a section called "Within 2km of this address" that lists nearby schools, health facilities, and major roads. It looks like a lifestyle feature, the kind of thing a broker puts in a flyer. It is not. It is there so you can ask a harder question: when the water comes, are the places you would run to on the same side of it as you are?
Three categories, counted and listed within a 2 kilometre circle around the exact address.
It also shows the count per category inside the same 2 kilometre radius the hazard layers use, and it drops markers on the map so you can see where they sit relative to your pin. It is free to view on every report, with no account and no payment, because it is context rather than analysis.
Because that is walking distance when the road is under water and no tricycle is running. Two kilometres is roughly a twenty to thirty minute walk for a healthy adult on flat ground, and a lot longer with children, an elderly parent, or a flooded street. It is also the same radius the report uses to pull hazard polygons and nearby faults, so the neighbourhood picture and the hazard picture line up on one map instead of two.
Anything further than that is a driving question, and driving is exactly what stops working in the situations this section is meant to help you think about.
This is the part most people skip. A hospital 1.4 kilometres away is only useful if you can get to it.
Put the two together and ask three questions:
For an LGU planner the same three questions apply at scale, which is why the section sits between the map and the hazard findings rather than at the bottom of the report.
It is not a rating, and it does not feed the risk score. Nothing in this section changes the flood level, the fault distance, or the overall determination. It adds no points and subtracts none.
It is not travel time. The distances are straight-line, point to point. A facility 900 metres away across a river with no bridge is further, in every way that matters, than one 1.6 kilometres away on a straight road.
It is not a quality judgement. A clinic and a tertiary hospital both appear as health facilities. The report tells you something is there. It does not tell you whether it has a generator, an emergency room, or staff at 2 a.m.
It is not complete. The data comes from OpenStreetMap, which is contributed by volunteers. Coverage in Metro Manila and the big cities is dense and good. In rural municipalities it thins out, and a real barangay health station may simply not be mapped yet. If a category comes back empty on a rural address, read that as "not in the data", not as "not there." When all three categories are empty, we hide the section entirely rather than show you three zeroes that mean nothing.
This section describes what is mapped near an address today. It does not know which facility is open on a Sunday, which road the LGU closes during a storm, whether the bridge on your route is rated for the load, or where the barangay actually sends people during an evacuation. It is a prompt for better questions, not an emergency plan. Build the real plan with your barangay, and check it against your own report's flood and waterway layers rather than against distance alone.
If you want the rest of the report explained in the same way, we walked through it in reading your CheckHazard report, section by section.
CheckHazard does not replace a professional geotechnical or engineering survey.