Open Climate Risk

This Source Cooperative repository contains data products for the Open Climate Risk project. These data were used to build a scalable pipeline for calculating climate risk assessments at building-level resolution across the continental United States. Wildfire risk was calculated through a distributed processing system that can run locally or on cloud infrastructure. Technical documentation can be found here.

Working with the data

Documentation for working with the raster and vector data can be found here.

Data Formats

Tensor

• Our raw input data consisted of either Zarr or TIFF files. We processed it into rechunked Icechunk stores.
• Our n-dimensional output data is stored as a single Icechunk store.

Vector

• Our raw input data was either GPKG or Geoparquet. All the vector pipeline inputs were converted to Geoparquet.
• Our output vector data is stored in multiple formats. See our documentation on data access for more details.
  • Hive-partitioned (state/county) Geoparquet file for risk sampled buildings across CONUS.
  • PMTiles layers for buildings, Census blocks, Census Tracts and counties.
  • Summary statistics files in GPKG and CSV

Data structure

The data is split into inputs and outputs, where inputs are raw and processed data for the pipeline, and outputs are versioned dataset outputs.

1├── input
2│   └── fire-risk
3│       ├── tensor
4│       │   ├── USFS (Icechunk & TIFF)
5│       │   │   ├── dillon-et-al-2023 
6│       │   │   ├── riley-et-al-2025 
7│       │   │   └── scott-et-al-2024 
8│       │   └── conus404-ffwi (Icechunk)
9│       └── vector
10│           ├── census-tiger (Geoparquet)
11│           │   ├── LICENSE.txt (CC BY 4.0) 
12│           │   ├── blocks 
13│           │   ├── counties
14│           │   └── tracts
15│           └── overture-maps (Geoparquet)
16│                └── LICENSE.txt (ODbL)
17└── output
18    └── fire-risk
19        ├── tensor (Icechunk)
20        │   ├── LICENSE.txt (CC BY 4.0)
21        │   ├── NOTICE.txt
22        │   └── production
23        └── vector (Geoparquet, PMTiles, GPKG, csv)
24            ├── LICENSE.txt (ODbL)
25            ├── NOTICE.txt
26            └── production
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1├── input
2│   └── fire-risk
3│       ├── tensor
4│       │   ├── USFS (Icechunk & TIFF)
5│       │   │   ├── dillon-et-al-2023 
6│       │   │   ├── riley-et-al-2025 
7│       │   │   └── scott-et-al-2024 
8│       │   └── conus404-ffwi (Icechunk)
9│       └── vector
10│           ├── census-tiger (Geoparquet)
11│           │   ├── LICENSE.txt (CC BY 4.0) 
12│           │   ├── blocks 
13│           │   ├── counties
14│           │   └── tracts
15│           └── overture-maps (Geoparquet)
16│                └── LICENSE.txt (ODbL)
17└── output
18    └── fire-risk
19        ├── tensor (Icechunk)
20        │   ├── LICENSE.txt (CC BY 4.0)
21        │   ├── NOTICE.txt
22        │   └── production
23        └── vector (Geoparquet, PMTiles, GPKG, csv)
24            ├── LICENSE.txt (ODbL)
25            ├── NOTICE.txt
26            └── production
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Data Sources

The tensor outputs rely on data from K Riley et al. 2025, J Scott et al. 2024, and R Rasmussen et al. 2023. The vector outputs additionally incorporate data from the Overture Maps Foundation buildings dataset and Census TIGER/Line. Read more about our data sources here.

Terms of use

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This work contains information from the Overture Maps buildings database, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL).

Licenses for tensor (CC BY 4.0) and vector (ODbL) data are packaged with the data in colocated LICENSE.txt files.