Mold Assessment in Arabi, Where 1930s and 2010s Houses Share a Street
A survey that starts from the age and build of this particular house, because in Arabi the house next door may fail somewhere completely different.
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Tell us what you can see or smell, roughly where in the house it is, and whether the house is raised or on a slab. Those three things narrow it more than the size of the patch does, because they point at how the water is arriving rather than where it ended up.
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Arabi's pre-war share and its repeat-loss file
Arabi has 2,185 housing units, the smallest stock in this service area, with a median year built of 1964. 249 of them, 11.4 percent, predate 1940, the third highest pre-war share here, while 188 units, 8.6 percent, were built between 2010 and 2019. 71.1 percent of the stock predates 1980.
Source: United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 five year estimates, accessed 2026-09-22
31.4 percent of New Orleans housing units, 61,327 of 195,552, were built in 1939 or earlier. The Louisiana figure is 6.1 percent and the national figure is 11.7 percent. No other place in this service area comes close: Gretna is next at 16.5 percent, then Arabi at 11.4 percent.
Source: United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 five year estimates, accessed 2026-09-22
Arabi records 150 National Flood Insurance Program multiple loss properties, of which 76, more than half, have four or more paid losses. 51 of the 150, 34 percent, have been mitigated.
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA dataset NFIP Multiple Loss Properties, data as of August 2, 2026, accessed 2026-09-22
This metro carries both foundation types on the same streets. Raised pier and beam construction with an open or vented space underneath dominates the pre-war stock and much of what has been rebuilt since, because federal rule 44 CFR 60.3(c)(2) requires the lowest floor to sit at or above the base flood level. Slab on grade dominates the post-war suburbs, where the American Community Survey puts the median year built at 1972 in Metairie, 1976 in Terrytown and 1978 in Kenner and Chalmette.
Source: Office of the Federal Register, Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, Title 44 Section 60.3, accessed 2026-09-22
Two building eras on one Arabi street
Arabi packs two building eras into the smallest housing stock we cover. 249 of its 2,185 homes were finished in 1939 or earlier, 11.4 percent and the third highest pre-war share in this service area, while 188 went up between 2010 and 2019. A pre-war house here is likely raised and wood framed. A 2010s house in a mapped zone had to be built with its lowest floor at or above the base flood level, and it is tighter and leans on its air conditioning. The survey starts by establishing which one it is standing in, because that decides whether the first look is under the floor, behind a papered wall, or at the ductwork.
Build year and flood count before an Arabi survey
Find the build year before booking; your closing papers or the tax record will have it. Then say whether the house has taken water. 76 of Arabi's 150 repeat-loss properties, more than half, have been paid four or more times, and 51 are recorded as mitigated, so many older houses here have a history the report should capture. St. Bernard Parish holds no Community Rating System class, so nothing in the report changes a rating discount; it is for your own decision, a buyer or an insurer.
When the house was built
Before 1940 and after 2010 are different buildings. The year points the survey at the floor, the walls or the ducts.
How many times it has taken water
More than half of Arabi's repeat-loss properties have been paid four or more times. A count shapes how much the survey opens.
Whether it has been raised or rebuilt
51 Arabi repeat-loss properties are recorded as mitigated. An altered house fails in new places.
Do you know the year the Arabi house went up?
Even the decade helps. It tells the survey where to start before anyone arrives.
Arabi removal and drying after the survey
Arabi survey questions about old and new houses
Arabi is lower than Chalmette. Does that change what the survey looks for?
It changes how likely a flood history is, not what the survey measures. Arabi's interior point sits 1.85 feet above sea level, four feet lower than neighboring Chalmette. On a low-lying older house the survey will look harder at the lower wall and the space under the floor, and ask what water has done there before.
Is my 2015 Arabi house too new for mold?
No house is too new. A tighter, heavily cooled house is exactly the kind whose interior wall surfaces the summer air can condense on, since the July mean dew point at the airport station is 75.2F. Newer is different, not immune, and the survey reads it for its own failure points: ducts, supply registers in exterior walls, and whatever finish is on the room side.
Send the Arabi house, its year and its water history
A person reads it and says what the survey would need to cover.