Climate Risk Advisor
County-level climate intelligence for every U.S. ZIP - with an AI that cites its sources.
Team of 4 · YHack 2026 · 24h
Coverage
All U.S. counties
Risk lenses
Heat · flood · wildfire
Built in
24h at YHack
Problem
FEMA's National Risk Index is the canonical U.S. climate-risk dataset, but it's unreadable for non-experts, and most climate chatbots hallucinate without citations.
Approach
Built a Mapbox-driven county explorer over FEMA NRI tables, a FastAPI layer for rankings and recommendations, and a RAG chatbot (FAISS + Gemini) grounded in NRI rows and scraped news so every answer shows the source it was pulled from.
In short
Hackathon build (YHack Spring 2026): explore county-level climate risk across the U.S. via Mapbox, statistics and rankings, and a RAG-powered chatbot (FAISS + Gemini) using FEMA National Risk Index data and real-world news context. React, Vite, Tailwind, and Recharts on the frontend; FastAPI for recommendations and chat APIs.
Stack
- React
- Vite
- Mapbox
- FastAPI
- Python
- Tailwind
- FAISS
- Gemini
- RAG