HCHIS · Host-City Stadium Heat Intelligence System

Rice University Urban Sustainability Hackathon · Track 3
Host-City Stadium Heat Intelligence System

Where should cities act first to protect World Cup visitors from extreme heat?

11 real host stadiums. 20 real years of NOAA hourly weather (2006-2025). Real 2026 match schedules, real parking-lot geometry, and a real live forecast feed -- combined into one answer: which venues, and which parts of each venue, need heat mitigation first.

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real matches analyzed
real per-match weather, Mesonet ASOS
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hotter than normal
real peak WBGT exceeded that stadium's own 20-yr average
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0.0°C
hottest real peak WBGT
black-flag territory — highest measured across all 78
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stadiums warming
real 20-year NOAA trend, 2006-2025
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20 real years, getting hotter

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Match-day reality

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The 5 real hottest World Cup matches by real peak WBGT (Mesonet ASOS, same station as each stadium's climatology) -- not modeled, what actually happened.

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The walk from the car is part of the exposure

SEMI

… real parking lots mapped across all 11 venues (real OpenStreetMap geometry). The heat a fan experiences doesn't start at the gate -- it starts in the lot.

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What cities can do about it

MOCK

6 real, published heat-mitigation strategies (EPA's heat-island framework, plus solar carports), each modeled on a real lot's real geometry -- tree shade, green/cool roofs, cool pavement, smart growth, angled re-striping, and solar carports. Every effect size is cited, never invented.

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Ask the data directly

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A function-calling agent (Claude, real tool calls only -- it narrates real numbers, it never invents one) answers questions against this same real dataset: rankings, trends, live forecasts, parking exposure.

REAL measured directlySEMI real geometry + one modeled termMOCK a modeled assumption, not measured here
Sources: NOAA global-hourly (2006-2025), Iowa Mesonet ASOS archive, OpenStreetMap (Overpass), api.weather.gov, EPA heat-island reduction research, nflverse. Rice University Urban Sustainability Hackathon · Track 3, Public Health & the Built Environment.