https://moldriskiq.com/news Reporting and analysis on mold science, moisture risk and the data behind both. en-us Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://moldriskiq.com/news/water-damage-species-xerophile-error https://moldriskiq.com/news/water-damage-species-xerophile-error The five-species water-damage panel is usually presented as a list of organisms that indicate a wet building. Two of the five are extreme xerophiles that grow in conditions drier than most fungi tolerate — and that is the most useful thing about the panel, not a footnote. MoldRiskIQ Editorial Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://moldriskiq.com/news/noaa-disaster-database-retired https://moldriskiq.com/news/noaa-disaster-database-retired NOAA's billion-dollar disasters catalogue was never a mold statistic, but it was the longest consistent record of large-scale wetting events reaching American buildings. It stopped updating after 2024, and anyone citing it now is citing a closed archive. MoldRiskIQ Editorial Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://moldriskiq.com/news/epa-ermi-not-validated https://moldriskiq.com/news/epa-ermi-not-validated The Environmental Relative Moldiness Index is real science, developed by EPA researchers and peer reviewed for the job it was built to do. That job was comparing populations of houses. It is now routinely sold as a verdict on one house, and EPA has said plainly that the validation does not stretch that far. MoldRiskIQ Editorial Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT