Build an OpenFEMA Agricultural Flood Declaration Tracker
Track repetitive agricultural disaster declarations across farming counties using OpenFEMA historical endpoints. Identify chronically vulnerable cropland and formulate structured soil drainage adaptation plans.
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Track repetitive agricultural disaster declarations across farming counties using OpenFEMA historical endpoints. Identify chronically vulnerable cropland and formulate structured soil drainage adaptation plans.
Agricultural Extension Risk Officer
Poll OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries filtered by incidentType Flood and designated area.
Map declarations to regional USDA agricultural soil classification zones.
Compute repeat flood return rates across multi-decade farming histories.
Draft tailored agricultural drainage and crop diversification adaptation recommendations.
Web dashboard with county-level agricultural flood recurrence graphs, soil type overlays, and printable adaptation briefs.
Access OpenFEMA API via HTTP queries using $filter and $select parameters. Cache sample county disaster declarations locally. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
FEMA OpenFEMA Utilizes OpenFEMA API URI parameters $select, $filter=incidentType eq 'Flood', and $orderby=declarationDate.
haystack, requests, pydantic. Constructs document processing pipelines that integrate tabular disaster statistics into retrieval-augmented adaptation briefs. Local or hosted LLM compatible with Haystack OpenAIChatGenerator or HuggingFace pipelines.
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.
Executes OpenFEMA queries with compliant ISO-8601 date filters.
Aggregates flood disaster frequencies per agricultural county.
Synthesizes soil drainage adaptation proposals matching local crop conditions.
```json [ { "input": { "county_fips": "19001", "state": "IA", "crop_type": "Corn", "flood_declarations_count": 5, "soil_drainage_class": "POORLY_DRAINED" }, "expected_output": { "county_fips": "19001", "recurrence_tier": "HIGH_FREQUENCY", "drainage_intervention_required": true, "recommended_practice": "PATTERN_TILE_DRAINAGE_AND_COVER_CROPS", "adaptation_readiness_score": 0.88 } }, { "input": { "county_fips": "19003", "state": "IA", "crop_type": "Soybeans", "flood_declarations_count": 0, "soil_drainage_class": "WELL_DRAINED" }, "expected_output": { "county_fips": "19003", "recurrence_tier": "LOW_FREQUENCY", "drainage_intervention_required": false, "recommended_practice": "STANDARD_CONSERVATION_TILLAGE", "adaptation_readiness_score": 0.22 } } ] ```
Supplies advisory agronomic recommendations; does not furnish engineering warranties for drainage installations. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
Supplies advisory agronomic recommendations; does not furnish engineering warranties for drainage installations. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Executes OpenFEMA queries with compliant ISO-8601 date filters. Aggregates flood disaster frequencies per agricultural county. Synthesizes soil drainage adaptation proposals matching local crop conditions.
Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.
Challenge datasets
Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.
How submissions are scored
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Complete workflow
Poll OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries filtered by incidentType Flood and designated area. Map declarations to regional USDA agricultural soil classification zones. Compute repeat flood return rates across multi-decade farming histories. Draft tailored agricultural drainage and crop diversification adaptation recommendations.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Executes OpenFEMA queries with compliant ISO-8601 date filters. Aggregates flood disaster frequencies per agricultural county. Synthesizes soil drainage adaptation proposals matching local crop conditions.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
Web dashboard with county-level agricultural flood recurrence graphs, soil type overlays, and printable adaptation briefs.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
Supplies advisory agronomic recommendations; does not furnish engineering warranties for drainage installations.
This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.
What you should walk away with
Poll OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries filtered by incidentType Flood and designated area.
Map declarations to regional USDA agricultural soil classification zones.
Compute repeat flood return rates across multi-decade farming histories.
Draft tailored agricultural drainage and crop diversification adaptation recommendations.
Reference links and supporting material
Access OpenFEMA API via HTTP queries using $filter and $select parameters. Cache sample county disaster declarations locally. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
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- Poll OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries filtered by incidentType Flood and designated area. Map declara...
- Executes OpenFEMA queries with compliant ISO-8601 date filters. Aggregates flood disaster frequencies per a...
- Web dashboard with county-level agricultural flood recurrence graphs, soil type overlays, and printable ada...
- 2 public reference cases
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- Complete workflow · Weight 40
- Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
- Review interface · Weight 20
- Safe execution · Weight 10
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- 2 public reference cases
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