CLIMATESHED Climate analysis for California places

Measured emissions baselines, downscaled projections, and mitigation analysis — for every California city, county area, and region. Every number traces back to a cited source.

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climateshed(n.)

The geographic zone of converging climate risk associated with a given location, encompassing the wildfire, flood, extreme heat, and related hazard exposures that a place inherits by virtue of its landscape, topography, and regional climate system.

Two ways in

One evidence base. Pick the question you're trying to answer.

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Sensitivity analysis

Start from your jurisdiction's measured GHG inventory, move the local levers — transit, building retrofits, electric vehicles, organics diversion — and watch the reductions update live against the baseline.

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Cited answers

Ask about wildfire risk, flooding, extreme heat, sea level rise, water policy, or adaptation, and get an answer synthesized from authoritative documents — with the citations attached so you can check the source.

What's underneath

Both products draw on the same evidence base.

GHG inventories

Community-scale emissions for 540 California jurisdictions, 2019 through 2024, built to ICLEI U.S. Community Protocol v1.2 with IPCC AR4 GWPs.

Sensitivity analysis

The CARB/Salon VMT Impact Tool engine and the CAPCOA 2024 GHG Handbook, applied per jurisdiction with a documented low-to-high range.

Projections

Downscaled CMIP6 (LOCA2) climate futures for temperature, precipitation, and extremes, alongside CalFire, FEMA, and NOAA hazard layers.

Documents & data

A retrieval corpus of 290+ assessments, plans, and policy documents, plus 15 live data feeds — searchable with citations rather than summarized away.

In development

Disclaimer: Climateshed products use artificial intelligence and modeled estimates, and may produce errors or incomplete information. All outputs should be independently verified before being relied upon, and are indicative planning information rather than professional, legal, scientific, or regulatory advice. Use of these services is subject to our Terms of Service, including the limitation of liability and indemnification provisions.