# Criora

> Criora is a climate risk platform with three parts: a country Atlas of climate and disaster risk covering 194 countries in 11 languages, a live world map of hazard events with a seven-day weather-risk forecast, and site-level climate risk scoring for any address on Earth.

The Atlas is the reference part and is fully readable without JavaScript. Each country page gives the country's overall risk class and its components (hazard and exposure, vulnerability, lack of coping capacity), climate vulnerability and readiness, about 160 indicators each benchmarked against the world, the country's region and subregion, and its income group, the main natural hazards, and climate projections. Sources: INFORM Risk Index (European Commission JRC), ND-GAIN (University of Notre Dame), World Bank indicators, CMIP6 climate projections, WRI Aqueduct and IPCC AR6.

Large cities have a page of their own at `/atlas/{ISO3}/{city}`, such as https://criora.com/atlas/PRT/lisbon: the hazards an issuer rates there, on the issuer's own scale, and its readings set against the world's large cities and its country's. A country's page lists its cities by population as the UN estimates it.

The home page is an interactive world map (it needs JavaScript) with four layers of information:

- Live events: wildfires (NASA FIRMS, VIIRS and MODIS), earthquakes, floods, tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions and droughts (GDACS), US National Weather Service flood, tropical cyclone and fire warnings, and air quality (EPA AirNow monitors in North America and at US embassies, and CAMS forecasts worldwide), updated continuously.
- Seven-day weather forecast: temperature, precipitation and wind from the Environment and Climate Change Canada global model (GDPS), hourly for the first day, then every three hours to day three and every six hours to day seven, animated over the week.
- Forecast risk: every forecast hour graded on five risk classes for heat and cold stress (UTCI), wind gusts and precipitation intensity. The map opens on this layer, showing the worst risk of the coming week at each place.
- Climate layers: about twenty long-term datasets, including ERA5 climate and extremes of the latest full year, CMIP6 climate projections, sea level rise projections, coastal and river flood hazard, the GloFAS flood forecast, the SPI drought index, aridity, WRI Aqueduct water stress today and for 2050 and 2080, burned area, vegetation (NDVI), land cover, surface water, wetlands, built-up area, elevation, land subsidence and Köppen climate zones.

Site-level scoring rates any address on 15 physical climate risks (temperature, precipitation, wind, flood, drought, sea level rise and more) from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis, Copernicus drought indicators, IPCC AR6 sea level projections, WRI Aqueduct water stress and satellite data. Reports follow the TCFD risk categories.

Journalists and researchers: how to cite Criora, the licence, stable links and widgets are at https://criora.com/press.

Operated from Germany. Contact: info@criora.com.

## AI agents and the MCP server

Everything above is readable without scraping, through Criora's MCP server, no key needed. Full reference: [AI agents and the MCP server](https://criora.com/docs/references/api-and-agents.md). The site's own JSON endpoints serve its pages and are not a public interface.

Every public page of the site is also served as markdown, the text a reader sees without the layout: ask for the page with `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` to its address, such as https://criora.com/atlas/PRT.md. The map's own pages answer with this file. The links below lead to the markdown; the page to cite is its address without `.md`, given as `url` in the markdown's front matter.

- MCP server: https://criora.com/mcp (remote, streamable HTTP, no authentication). Place tools take latitude and longitude, or a place name:
  - assess_place: everything about a place in one answer: forecast risk by day, hazards nearby, the headline climate exposures and country risk.
  - get_forecast: seven-day weather and weather risk (heat, cold, wind, rain, snow) by local day, or step by step.
  - get_climate_profile: long-term exposure: flood depth, sea level rise, extreme heat, warming to 2050 and 2080, drought, water stress.
  - get_climate_table: the long-term layers of get_climate_profile at up to 50 places in one call, as a table with a row per place, for a portfolio of sites or a grid of points.
  - get_climate_twin: the large city whose climate today a city will have in 2041-2060, under SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5.
  - get_place_history: what has hit a place before: earthquakes, tropical cyclones, tsunamis, floods and eruptions near it, by decade, and the largest with their date, distance, deaths and damage.
  - get_hazards_near: wildfires, earthquakes, floods, cyclones, volcanoes, droughts and air quality near a place, now and recently.
  - list_hazards: disasters and official warnings in force across a country, a region or the whole world, most severe first, with counts.
  - rank_by_forecast: the cities or countries where the weather of the next 1 to 7 days is most dangerous, optionally for one hazard.
  - get_area_risk: the weather of the next 1 to 7 days over a whole country or region, day by day, and on request its long-term climate layers.
  - estimate_financial_impact: indicative flood and cyclone damage to a building or asset, its expected annual damage and the damage of the 50 to 500-year events, as a share of its value and in money, low to high, today or in 2050 and 2080.
  - get_country_profile: a country's risk scores and rank, and on request its indicators furthest from the world median, or all of them, with world and regional benchmarks.
  - get_enso_outlook: NOAA's El Niño and La Niña outlook for the nine seasons ahead and, for a country, how often each has made those seasons wetter, drier, warmer or colder there since 1950.
  - compare_countries: two to ten countries side by side on every risk dimension, with their ranks.
  - rank_countries: the countries most or least at risk, overall or on one risk dimension, optionally within a region, subregion or income group, each with its rank among all countries.
  - find_place: coordinates for a place name, to settle an ambiguous name before another call.
  - show_risk_map: an interactive map in the conversation, of a place, several places side by side, one event such as a storm, or the world, in assistants that display MCP Apps; the same answer as text elsewhere.
  - search and fetch: find and read a country, a place, or the methodology and data sources pages as a markdown document with the Criora page to cite, for research agents such as ChatGPT deep research.
  - Prompts: assess_trip (how risky a trip is on its dates), compare_places_to_live (long-term exposure of several places), country_briefing (one country against its region and the world), site_due_diligence (the climate and disaster risk of a property or site), esg_country_screen (countries screened on climate and disaster risk for an ESG, investment or supply-chain decision).

## Atlas

- [Atlas index](https://criora.com/atlas.md): all 194 countries ranked by overall risk or by any single risk dimension, filterable by region.
- [Country profile, e.g. Germany](https://criora.com/atlas/DEU.md): one page per country at https://criora.com/atlas/{ISO3}, using the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code; each exists in every language at https://criora.com/{lang}/atlas/{ISO3}.
- [Compare countries](https://criora.com/atlas/compare.md): up to four countries side by side on every risk dimension.

## Map and scoring

- [Live map](https://criora.com/): live hazard events, the seven-day forecast, forecast risk and long-term climate layers on one world map.
- [Getting started](https://criora.com/docs/guides/getting-started.md): scoring an address and reading the result.
- [How scoring works](https://criora.com/docs/methodology/how-scoring-works.md): how a place and a country are scored, from the data to the grade.
- [Risks overview](https://criora.com/docs/references/risks-overview.md): the 15 physical risks and what each measures.
- [Data sources](https://criora.com/docs/references/data-sources.md): every dataset behind the scores and the map.
- [About](https://criora.com/about.md): product overview and FAQ.

## Languages

- English: https://criora.com/
- German: https://criora.com/de
- French: https://criora.com/fr
- Italian: https://criora.com/it
- Spanish: https://criora.com/es
- Dutch: https://criora.com/nl
- Polish: https://criora.com/pl
- Ukrainian: https://criora.com/uk
- Romanian: https://criora.com/ro
- Serbian: https://criora.com/sr
- Russian: https://criora.com/ru