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Challenge

Build a Wildfire Claim Evidence Footprint Reconciler

Correlate commercial property loss claims against historical OpenFEMA fire declarations and STAC post-fire imagery footprints. Verify spatial inclusion within administrative zones and image bounds for human investigators.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Correlate commercial property loss claims against historical OpenFEMA fire declarations and STAC post-fire imagery footprints. Verify spatial inclusion within administrative zones and image bounds for human investigators.

Property Claim Investigation Specialist

Ingest property claim intake forms with policyholder coordinates and dates.

Verify county disaster declaration status using OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries.

Retrieve corresponding post-event STAC catalog satellite Items intersecting the physical address.

Formulate a structured claim evidence reconciliation report detailing administrative and image footprint matches.

Multi-panel review workbench displaying claim details, FEMA county administrative records, and STAC satellite bounding box previews.

Query OpenFEMA API for fire declarations using $filter=incidentType eq 'Fire' and use mock STAC catalog GeoJSON footprint bounds. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

FEMA OpenFEMA Extracts disaster declaration dates and designated county areas from OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries to cross-verify claims against administrative zones.

langgraph, requests, pystac. LangGraph orchestrates a multi-step verification graph, routing claim checks between OpenFEMA administrative queries and STAC spatial footprint lookups. Hosted reasoning model capable of coordinating multi-step graph execution and evaluating spatial point-in-polygon logic.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Checks claim incident date against FEMA declaration start and end dates.

Confirms the claim asset coordinate falls within the declared FEMA administrative county.

Validates that the asset coordinate is within the bounding box of the retrieved STAC post-fire imagery.

```json [ { "input": { "claim_id": "CLM-PROP-401", "incident_date": "2023-08-10", "asset_coords": [ -156.6825, 20.8783 ], "county": "Maui", "fema_declaration": { "incidentBeginDate": "2023-08-08", "incidentEndDate": "2023-08-15", "designatedArea": "Maui (County)" }, "stac_bbox": [ -156.7, 20.8, -156.6, 20.9 ], "note": "Simplified synthetic app record" }, "expected_output": { "claim_id": "CLM-PROP-401", "temporal_match": true, "admin_spatial_match": true, "image_footprint_match": true, "reconciliation_status": "VERIFIED_MATCH", "note": "Simplified synthetic app record" } }, { "input": { "claim_id": "CLM-PROP-402", "incident_date": "2023-09-20", "asset_coords": [ -156.2, 20.7 ], "county": "Maui", "fema_declaration": { "incidentBeginDate": "2023-08-08", "incidentEndDate": "2023-08-15", "designatedArea": "Maui (County)" }, "stac_bbox": [ -156.7, 20.8, -156.6, 20.9 ], "note": "Simplified synthetic app record" }, "expected_output": { "claim_id": "CLM-PROP-402", "temporal_match": false, "admin_spatial_match": true, "image_footprint_match": false, "reconciliation_status": "REQUIRES_REVIEW", "note": "Simplified synthetic app record" } } ] ```

Compiles preliminary event correlation evidence; leaves all insurance coverage and payout decisions to certified human claims adjusters. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Compiles preliminary event correlation evidence; leaves all insurance coverage and payout decisions to certified human claims adjusters. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Checks claim incident date against FEMA declaration start and end dates. Confirms the claim asset coordinate falls within the declared FEMA administrative county. Validates that the asset coordinate is within the bounding box of the retrieved STAC post-fire imagery.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Ingest property claim intake forms with policyholder coordinates and dates. Verify county disaster declaration status using OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries. Retrieve corresponding post-event STAC catalog satellite Items intersecting the physical address. Formulate a structured claim evidence reconciliation report detailing administrative and image footprint matches.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Checks claim incident date against FEMA declaration start and end dates. Confirms the claim asset coordinate falls within the declared FEMA administrative county. Validates that the asset coordinate is within the bounding box of the retrieved STAC post-fire imagery.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Multi-panel review workbench displaying claim details, FEMA county administrative records, and STAC satellite bounding box previews.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Compiles preliminary event correlation evidence; leaves all insurance coverage and payout decisions to certified human claims adjusters.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Ingest property claim intake forms with policyholder coordinates and dates.

  • Verify county disaster declaration status using OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries.

  • Retrieve corresponding post-event STAC catalog satellite Items intersecting the physical address.

  • Formulate a structured claim evidence reconciliation report detailing administrative and image footprint matches.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Query OpenFEMA API for fire declarations using `$filter=incidentType eq 'Fire'` and use mock STAC catalog GeoJSON footprint bounds. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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LangGraph

Runtime for stateful agent workflows.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest property claim intake forms with policyholder coordinates and dates. Verify county disaster declarat...
  • Checks claim incident date against FEMA declaration start and end dates. Confirms the claim asset coordinat...
  • Multi-panel review workbench displaying claim details, FEMA county administrative records, and STAC satelli...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • LangGraph · Optional
Orchestration
  • LangGraph · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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