Home Noise Check
For buyers and renters before signing
- Desk review of both runway flows and nearby roads and rail
- One site visit with outdoor and indoor readings
- Plain-English report within a week
Home noise estimate · Version 1
Enter a U.S. address. We estimate jet noise from nearby airports, including the difference between days the airport flies over you and days it doesn't, and flag other noise sources nearby.
Aircraft noise, yearly average
Typical loud flyover, outdoors
Flyovers above 65 dBA on an average day
Same flyover indoors, windows closed
It depends on the wind
Airports take off and land into the wind, so a house can be under the flight path on some days and quiet on others.
How loud, compared with everyday sounds (dBA)
Runways and flight paths near you
Where the noise comes from
| Source | Per day | Peak dBA | Height |
|---|
Other possible noise sources nearby
Method · Version 1 assumptions
This is a physics model with stated assumptions, not a measurement. Each assumption below is a starting point that will be tuned against sound-meter readings.
Every U.S. airline and major airport within 25 miles, with real runway ends from OurAirports data.
Arrivals on a 3° glide slope out to 18 nautical miles. Departures roll, climb at a type-specific rate, then fan out as they turn toward their destinations.
Five aircraft classes, each with a reference loudness at 1,000 ft. Loudness falls with slant distance (spherical spreading plus air absorption).
Each airport is computed twice: once per flow direction. The yearly figure blends the two by the share of days in each flow.
Day-night average (DNL), number of flyovers louder than 65 dBA, the typical peak, and an everyday comparison.
| Class | Examples | Takeoff | Landing |
|---|
Peak level (Lmax, dBA) heard 1,000 ft from the aircraft. Departures drop 2 dB once above 1,500 ft (thrust cutback).
Typed addresses are located with OpenStreetMap. Matches are usually street-level; for the sharpest result, paste your home's exact coordinates.
Services
A model tells you where to look. A measurement tells you what you will actually hear. We measure at your property, match every loud event to the aircraft or source that made it, and explain the result in plain English.
For buyers and renters before signing
For homeowners who want the full picture
For land and projects near airports
For owners who are staying put
Studies are led by Asghar Meraj, Ph.D., an engineer and certified Project Management Professional. Measurements use a calibrated sound level meter, checked before and after every session. When a project needs a board-certified acoustical consultant, we say so up front and bring one in before work begins.
Sample report
Hypothetical single-family home, 5 miles south of a major hub airport
Sample with illustrative numbers, not a real property or real measurements. It shows the format and depth of a delivered report.
Noise at this home depends almost entirely on the airport's runway direction. On the 4 days the airport used south flow, departures passed about 2,500 ft overhead, with 140 to 170 flyovers louder than 65 dBA. On the 3 north-flow days, fewer than 10 flyovers crossed 65 dBA.
| Day | Flow | Flyovers >65 | Loudest | DNL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | South | 162 | 81 | 61.8 |
| Tue | South | 171 | 83 | 62.4 |
| Wed | North | 6 | 68 | 47.9 |
| Thu | North | 9 | 70 | 48.6 |
| Fri | South | 158 | 80 | 61.5 |
| Sat | South | 141 | 79 | 60.7 |
| Sun | North | 4 | 66 | 46.2 |
Contact
Call or email with the address and what you want to know. Every quote is fixed before work starts.
Phone
571-263-9082