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Challenge

Build an OpenFEMA Administrative Flood Declaration Scorer

Correlate county-level OpenFEMA disaster declarations for inland flooding against croplands and agricultural soil maps. Track historical administrative declaration frequencies to construct targeted soil drainage and crop transition adaptation plans.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Correlate county-level OpenFEMA disaster declarations for inland flooding against croplands and agricultural soil maps. Track historical administrative declaration frequencies to construct targeted soil drainage and crop transition adaptation plans.

Rural Agricultural Resilience Agent

Fetch OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries data using OData queries filtered for agricultural counties.

Calculate the historical count of administrative flood disaster declarations across specified periods.

Intersect declaration frequency scores with rural crop land cover classifications.

Generate regional adaptation action plans detailing cover cropping and retention pond allocations based on administrative declaration history.

Vue.js dashboard featuring county administrative declaration counts, historical timeframe slider controls, and adaptation plans.

Use OpenFEMA REST endpoints with $filter, $select, and $format=json parameters to retrieve administrative declaration data. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

FEMA OpenFEMA Employ OpenFEMA $filter by incidentType and state, utilizing $select for field reduction of administrative records.

crewai, httpx, pandas. CrewAI coordinates specialized agents for administrative data extraction, agronomy analysis, and adaptation plan drafting. Instruction-following LLM capable of multi-agent agricultural planning dialogue focused on administrative historical data.

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.

Correctly builds OpenFEMA query with URL encoding and logical operators.

Computes administrative declaration event counts accurately from year spans.

Recommends specific soil mitigation measures for counties exceeding historical administrative declaration thresholds.

```json [ { "input": { "county_fips": "19153", "county_name": "Polk County, IA", "crop_type": "Corn/Soy", "declarations": [ { "disasterNumber": 1763, "incidentType": "Flood" }, { "disasterNumber": 1930, "incidentType": "Flood" }, { "disasterNumber": 4421, "incidentType": "Flood" } ] }, "expected_output": { "county_name": "Polk County, IA", "administrative_flood_count": 3, "adaptation_priority": "HIGH", "recommended_interventions": [ "EXPAND_WETLAND_BUFFER_STRIPS", "TRANSITION_DEPRESSIONAL_ACRES_TO_FORAGE" ], "record_type": "simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files" } }, { "input": { "county_fips": "19001", "county_name": "Adair County, IA", "crop_type": "Soybeans", "declarations": [] }, "expected_output": { "county_name": "Adair County, IA", "administrative_flood_count": 0, "adaptation_priority": "BASELINE", "recommended_interventions": [ "MAINTAIN_STANDARD_TILLAGE_MANAGEMENT" ], "record_type": "simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files" } } ] ```

Outputs are agronomic adaptation suggestions based purely on historical administrative records, not physical hazard recurrence probabilities. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Outputs are agronomic adaptation suggestions based purely on historical administrative records, not physical hazard recurrence probabilities. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Correctly builds OpenFEMA query with URL encoding and logical operators. Computes administrative declaration event counts accurately from year spans. Recommends specific soil mitigation measures for counties exceeding historical administrative declaration thresholds.

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

Fetch OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries data using OData queries filtered for agricultural counties. Calculate the historical count of administrative flood disaster declarations across specified periods. Intersect declaration frequency scores with rural crop land cover classifications. Generate regional adaptation action plans detailing cover cropping and retention pond allocations based on administrative declaration history.

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

Correctly builds OpenFEMA query with URL encoding and logical operators. Computes administrative declaration event counts accurately from year spans. Recommends specific soil mitigation measures for counties exceeding historical administrative declaration thresholds.

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

Vue.js dashboard featuring county administrative declaration counts, historical timeframe slider controls, and adaptation plans.

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

Outputs are agronomic adaptation suggestions based purely on historical administrative records, not physical hazard recurrence probabilities.

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

  • Fetch OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries data using OData queries filtered for agricultural counties.

  • Calculate the historical count of administrative flood disaster declarations across specified periods.

  • Intersect declaration frequency scores with rural crop land cover classifications.

  • Generate regional adaptation action plans detailing cover cropping and retention pond allocations based on administrative declaration history.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Use OpenFEMA REST endpoints with $filter, $select, and $format=json parameters to retrieve administrative declaration data. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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crewAI

Multi-agent orchestration framework

Evaluated output

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Evaluation checks
  • Fetch OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries data using OData queries filtered for agricultural counties. C...
  • Correctly builds OpenFEMA query with URL encoding and logical operators. Computes administrative declaratio...
  • Vue.js dashboard featuring county administrative declaration counts, historical timeframe slider controls,...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

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
  • crewAI · 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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