Prism Microclimate · a Prism Labs product

Every field in North Dakota, on one map.

961,439 field boundaries. Find your field in any of the 53 counties, or start with the Harwood example farm. A seven-day forecast for your field, 38 years of risk and economics for your county.

Open to anyone, free in the browser, with no account and nothing to install. Your own farm's sensors and records join it through Prism Desktop, on your own machines.

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Prism Microclimate: find any North Dakota field, a county drought map and the example farm

The live product, as it runs today

In numbers

The record behind every card.

961,439Field boundaries across North Dakota, searchable, pin your own farm

53Counties, every field in each of them

38Years of insured-loss history per county, crop and peril

See

The state, county by county. Your field, boundary by boundary.

County map
County map of North Dakota with a switchable layer
Live product
  • Every field on one map.961,439 boundaries, coloured by crop, with a filter. Hover over a field for its details, search for a place or use your location, and pin your own farm. Everything below resolves to it.
  • Five county layers.Drought this week, what perils actually cost, what land rents for, wheat yields, and where the acres are, over 53 counties.
  • Live conditions.Weather, rain, soil, snow and water for the state and your field, each marked as updating live, slowly, or fixed.
  • Imagery and terrain.Switch between a satellite view, an aerial photo and your field's latest satellite picture, with terrain shading underneath.
  • Your own outline.If your field is drawn differently from the map, draw your own outline or upload one, and the answers follow it.

Open these fields in Map Studio → The boundaries are a ready layer under My Data, beside your own files. About Map Studio

Example farm

Four real fields near Harwood, North Dakota.

Open Prism Microclimate and an example farm is already there: four neighbouring fields, each with its own forecast, windows and history. Look around, then find your own field.

Corn

154 acres

Soybeans

155 acres

Spring wheat

299 acres

Sugarbeets

174 acres

Plan

Seven days ahead, with the doubt shown.

  • A week ahead, with the doubt shown.Temperature, rain and frost chances for your field, a week ahead. The band shows how sure the forecast is; it widens further out, as it should.
  • Rain and frost as probabilities.The chance of more than 1, 5 or 10 mm, and of 2 m temperature below freezing, for the field you picked.
  • Plain answers first.Rain, the spray window, frost or heat, crop stage, disease risk and crop health for each field, before any chart.
  • Windows and stages.Frost, spray and field-work windows; growing degree days and crop stage against similar years.
Seven-day forecast
Seven-day forecast chart with a temperature band and rain chances
Live product

Understand

Thirty-eight years of risk, crops and economics.

Peril risk

What each peril costs, by county and crop

Frequency, severity per acre, loss ratio, the worst year and the peak month, from 38 years of insured losses.

Season against history

This year, against the same county's past

Conditions, progress and yields against 38 years of the same crop in the same place.

Farm economics

Rents, land values and budgets

County cash rents and land values, state income and expense series since 1997, projected crop budgets and programme acres, with their gates stated.

Your field

Everything for one boundary

Forecast, soil, rain, water and peril history resolve to the field you pinned, with the number of years behind each figure stated.

Honest numbers

Clear about what every number is.

Records

Kept current, on schedule.

Every record behind the page is refreshed on its own schedule, so the numbers for your field are never stale without saying so.

Pilots

We attach to what you already run.

Prism Microclimate is the public record under your fields, free to use. A pilot adds yours, on your own machines.

Where it stands

Where it stands, and what comes next.

Stage today

A working product, open to anyone: all 961,439 North Dakota field boundaries, a seven-day forecast for each field with frost and rain chances, 38 years of county risk history, and every number labelled measured, estimated or forecast. Not yet done: accuracy measured against the season's ground truth, grower alerts, and use on a working farm.

Next milestones
  • Forecast accuracy measured against the 2026 season.
  • Grower alerts for frost, rain and spray windows, and a field view.
  • Pilot agreements with North Dakota growers for spring 2027.
Proof and validation

Validation happens in the field: pilot growers' own sensors checked against the forecast, with the accuracy figures published. That is the evidence for first revenue and for wider field trials.

Open it now. Bring your farm when you are ready.