Restoring public access to climate-risk evidence
What went offline
FEMA’s Future Risk Index, released in December 2024, added a climate-change multiplier to the federal risk index so people could compare a county’s projected losses from a hazard today against a future emissions scenario. The federal government took the site offline in early 2025, removing the public way to inspect those county-level projections.
What we rebuilt
We downloaded the underlying FEMA datasets — the Future Risk master datasheet and the data dictionary — before the takedown and rebuilt the screening tool around them. Our replacement is a React and Leaflet web application hosted at an independent public URL. It keeps the original interface’s core: one hazard, one output, one emissions scenario at a time, with county ratings and projected annual loss in dollar ranges, drawn from US Census Bureau, FEMA, and NOAA data.
We published the repository under the Unlicense and documented how the public files are produced. We recommend forking the repository and hosting the tool yourself on GitHub Pages, so a single takedown cannot remove it again.
Public record
Fast Company, the Guardian and Context covered the broader volunteer effort to preserve removed federal datasets. The live tool and our repository remain linked from this page.
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