A refugium is ground the ice never reached.
45.9237° N
6.8694° E
Refugia scores any point on Earth for daily life, a long loss of power and modelled catastrophe, at the exact coordinates.
Twenty thousand years ago, ice covered much of the north. Life held on in refugia: valleys, coasts and peaks the ice never reached. Refugia finds out which ground holds when the world changes again.
Who it is for. People choosing land, a homestead or a second home they mean to rely on: off-grid builders, families leaving a city, anyone who prepares, and anyone who wants to know the ground before signing for it.
What you get. A private report on the exact coordinates. Fifty-two criteria in two layers, life today and life after a long loss of power, each scored from 0 to 100 with its evidence, its confidence and its sources.
Where it works. Anywhere on Earth. Global datasets cover every point, and regional ones take over where they exist, such as FEMA flood zones in the United States. Scenario layers model a nuclear exchange, ECDO and a micronova.
How to start. Drop a pin on the map or paste coordinates. A report costs six credits, about thirty dollars, and is ready in a few minutes. Credits never expire, and a failed report returns them.
Five points the engine has assessed. Each one answers differently once the grid fails or the world changes.
Refugia safety report
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
45.92370, 6.86940 · assessed 2026-10-24
74
of 100 overall
26 data models ran for this point. Research agents add prices, crime, wells and rules.
Under a second
About two minutes
A few more minutes
Galveston, Texas · Current
Event safety
76
Sources
| Terrain | Copernicus GLO-30 | 30 m |
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover | 10 m |
| River floods | Copernicus GloFAS | 90 m |
| Flood zones, US | FEMA flood hazard layer | parcel |
| Climate | ERA5, 2014 to 2023 | 9 km |
| Sun and wind | NASA POWER | 55 km |
| Soil | ISRIC SoilGrids | 250 m |
| Population | JRC Human Settlement | 1 km |
| Earthquakes | USGS catalogue | since 1975 |
| Faults | GEM active faults | global |
| Volcanoes | Smithsonian GVP | 1,214 systems |
| Power and reactors | WRI power plants | global |
| Toxic industry | EPA TRI, E-PRTR, NPRI, NPI | 60,000 sites |
| Services and roads | OpenStreetMap | live |
| Live hazards | USGS, GDACS, EONET, NOAA | every 10 min |
A report is six credits, thirty dollars, and each scenario adds two. A plan watches the places you choose and alerts you when the ground around them moves.
For a family with land, a cabin and somewhere to fall back to.
Watches fifteen places. Alerts for earthquakes, wildfires, floods, cyclones and geomagnetic storms nearby, an alert when any score changes, a quarterly refresh of each report, and four credits every month.
$29
a month
For one plot you are still deciding on.
Watches three places with the same live hazard alerts, and includes one credit every month.
$9
a month
Who sees my coordinates? Only you. A report is private to the account that ran it. The public map shows a generalised summary of a cell of about five square kilometres, never the point.
Is a score a prediction? No. Scores compare places on one absolute scale. They describe the ground and its exposure; they do not say what will happen there.
Why do some criteria say not measured? A score is only given where evidence exists. When a source has no data for a place, the criterion stays ungraded rather than guessed.
Where does the data come from? Fourteen open sources of record for terrain, floods, climate, soil, people, earthquakes, faults, volcanoes and infrastructure, plus research agents that cite every page they use.
What are the theoretical scenarios? Conditional models of a nuclear exchange, ECDO and a solar micronova, each run with its parameters stated. Refugia takes no position on whether any of them will occur.
How long does a report take? The data models finish in about two minutes. Research and writing add a few more. You can close the page; the report appears on your dashboard.
What if a report fails? Its credits go back to your balance automatically, and you can run it again.
Do credits expire? No. Buy them once and use them whenever you are ready.
What does an alert look like? A plain email and a dashboard entry: what happened, how far from your place, and a link to the source, such as a wildfire forty kilometres away.
Is this professional advice? No. It is a careful first read of a place. For a purchase, take it to a surveyor, an engineer or a lawyer.
