By Claire Brown | New York Times

Zillow, the country’s largest real estate listings site, has quietly removed a feature that showed the risks from extreme weather for more than 1 million home sale listings on its site.

The website began publishing climate risk ratings last year using data from risk-modeling company First Street. The scores aimed to quantify each home’s risk from floods, wildfires, wind, extreme heat and poor air quality.

But real estate agents complained they hurt sales. Some homeowners protested the scores and found there was no way to challenge the ratings.

Earlier this month Zillow stopped displaying the scores after complaints from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, which operates a private database funded by real estate brokers and agents. Zillow r

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