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Every lot, read through its climate.
Fifty states and the District as lots on one map. Each carries its thirty-year normals, a computed climate class, the house types the climate builds, and a set of design decisions you can audit line by line. A live layer from NOAA, USGS and NASA shows what today is doing to the baseline.
The map
One country, eleven climates, fifty-one lots.
Pick a layer, then pick a lot. Colors come from one anchor NOAA station per state, so they describe the state's largest city more than its mountains or its coast.
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Normals describe the typical year, not a forecast and not a tail-risk model. Zones are computed from the anchor station; the adopted county zone can differ by one.
The lot
Pick a state to read its lot.
Title, occupancy, access and yield still apply. On this map, climate answers part of occupancy and part of yield.
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Today against the baseline
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Active alerts
Forecast
What the climate decides
Rule-of-thumb design support with an auditable basis. Not engineering, not code compliance, not a permit.
| Decision | Value | Because | Basis |
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Reasoning trace (hexad order, Base120 operators)
What the climate builds
Hazards that matter when you hold a building here
Design drivers
The regions
Eleven climates, each with its own vernacular.
The four-corner route on the front door grew into eleven regions. Hazards cite their sources; house types are field notes, not data.
Method
How a lot gets read.
1 · Normals
One anchor NOAA station per state, NCEI 1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, monthly and annual. Thirty-year averages, not forecasts.
2 · Köppen class
Computed from the twelve monthly means with the Peel, Finlayson and McMahon (2007) criteria, so every class is reproducible from the data on this page.
3 · IECC zone
Computed from the 2021 IECC thermal criteria (cooling degree-days base 50, heating degree-days base 65) and the marine and dry moisture rules. The adopted county zone can differ by one.
4 · Decisions
Envelope priority, roof pitch, foundation, moisture strategy, insulation minimums, glazing and structure, each with a because and a basis you can check.
5 · The hexad
Each decision carries a six-step reasoning trace in hexad order, PERSPECT → INVERT → DECOMPOSE → COMPOSE → RECURSE → SYSTEMA, with one Base120 operator per family.
6 · The live layer
NWS alerts, observations and forecasts, USGS earthquakes and NASA EONET events, aggregated at the edge with provenance headers and short caches. Today's diff against the baseline.
Sources the map aggregates
- NOAA NCEI · 1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals · public domain · static, built into the data.
- NOAA NWS · active alerts, station observations, gridpoint forecasts · public domain · live, cached 5–30 minutes.
- USGS · earthquakes M2.5+ past day · public domain · live, cached 5 minutes.
- NASA EONET · open natural events · public domain · live, cached 30 minutes.
- us-atlas · state outlines · ISC license.
- 2021 IECC · climate-zone thermal criteria and Table R402.1.3 insulation minimums · reference values; confirm the adopted edition and local amendments.
- Peel, Finlayson and McMahon (2007) · Köppen-Geiger criteria · Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 11, 1633–1644.
Machine-readable: states.json, regions.json, api/sources, llms.txt.
The next room
The map is one home. The House has more.
The front door keeps the estate legible. The parts room prices a single house down to the hinge. The product proves what agents did.