Criora — climate and disaster risk MCP server

Criora is a hosted, remote Model Context Protocol server that answers climate and disaster risk questions for any place on Earth: this week's weather risk, hazards happening nearby, long-term climate exposure and country risk.
- Endpoint:
https://criora.com/mcp
- Transport: Streamable HTTP
- Authentication: none, no account or API key
- Access: read-only, free
- Registry name:
com.criora/criora in the official MCP registry
This repository holds the documentation and registry metadata for the hosted server. The server itself runs at criora.com; there is nothing to install.
Connect
Claude (claude.ai, Claude Desktop): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste https://criora.com/mcp.
Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http criora https://criora.com/mcp
Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json) and other clients that use an mcpServers file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"criora": { "url": "https://criora.com/mcp" }
}
}
VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json):
{
"servers": {
"criora": { "type": "http", "url": "https://criora.com/mcp" }
}
}
ChatGPT and other assistants: add https://criora.com/mcp as a custom connector / remote MCP server.
Place tools take latitude and longitude, or a place name that they resolve to the best match and report back. Every tool is read-only and publishes its output schema; answers at their defaults stay under about 8,000 tokens.
| Tool | What it answers |
|---|
assess_place | Everything about a place in one answer: forecast risk by day, hazards nearby, headline climate exposures and the country's risk profile. The best first call for a general question. |
get_forecast | Seven-day weather and weather risk, by local day or step by step. Each day carries a risk class with the hazard behind it (heat, cold, wind, rain, snow, freezing rain). |
get_hazards_near | Wildfires, earthquakes, floods, tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions, droughts, US NWS warnings and air quality near a place, most severe and most recent first. |
get_climate_profile | Long-term exposure: floods, sea level rise, heat, drought, water stress and more, with warming and rainfall change projected to 2050 and 2080. |
get_country_profile | A country's overall risk score and its climate, nature, social, governance and adaptation scores; on request about 160 indicators with world and regional benchmarks. |
compare_countries | Two to ten countries side by side on overall risk and each dimension, with their ranks. |
rank_countries | The countries most or least at risk, overall or on one dimension, optionally within a region, subregion or income group, each with its score, risk class and rank. |
find_place | Coordinates for a place name, when a name is ambiguous. |
search | Find countries, places and Criora reference pages by name; returns ids for fetch. Built to the shape ChatGPT deep research and company knowledge expect. |
fetch | A readable document for a search id (country:BGD, place:<lat>,<lon>, page:methodology), with a link to the Criora page it comes from. |
Resources
| URI | What it holds |
|---|
criora://country/{iso3} | A country's risk scores and classes as JSON (template; ISO3 codes autocomplete). |
criora://methodology | How Criora scores country risk (markdown). |
criora://sources | The datasets behind every answer, with licences (markdown). |
Prompts
| Prompt | Arguments | Purpose |
|---|
assess_trip | destination, dates (optional) | How risky a trip is: weather risk on the travel days, hazards nearby, seasonal exposure. |
compare_places_to_live | places (semicolon-separated) | Long-term climate exposure and country risk of several places side by side. |
country_briefing | country (name or ISO3, autocompleted) | One country's climate and disaster risk against its region and the world. |
Example questions
- "How exposed is Ghana to climate disasters?"
- "What is the weather risk in Lisbon this week?"
- "Are there any wildfires or earthquakes near Tokyo right now?"
- "Compare climate risk for Spain and Portugal."
- "I'm going to Seville from 3 to 6 October — how risky is that trip?"
Data sources
Every answer names its source. Main sources: forecast from Environment and Climate Change Canada; place names from OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL); hazards from NASA FIRMS, GDACS, the US National Weather Service and OpenAQ; climate layers from ERA5, CMIP6 and IPCC AR6 among others; country indicators from the INFORM Risk Index, ND-GAIN and the World Bank. See Data Sources for the full list and licences.
Limits
- Place-name lookups go through OpenStreetMap Nominatim, which allows one request per second for all of Criora together, so pass coordinates where you have them.
- Forecasts change when a new model run is published, twice a day.
JSON API
The same data is available as a plain JSON API under https://criora.com/api/v1. See Data API and AI agents.
Terms
Criora publishes data, not advice. Use of the service is governed by the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy. When you publish or redistribute data from Criora, credit Criora and follow the licence of the source each answer names.
The MIT licence in this repository covers the files in this repository (documentation and metadata) only.
Issues and questions: open an issue in this repository or write to thothbot@gmail.com.