Nosquito
About the project
Florida is in the middle of its worst dengue season in years. The state has logged 152 locally acquired dengue cases in 2026 — its second-highest total on record, behind only 2023 — and recorded its first dengue-related death in decades after an 80-year-old Hillsborough County woman died from the virus in September. The outbreak, centered in Tampa Bay, has since spread into Orange County, with active health alerts in Pasco and Miami-Dade.
Right now, the only way for most Floridians to check mosquito control status is a list of links to dozens of separate county programs — no map, no unified view, no way to see how your county compares to the rest of the state or understand why conditions are changing. NoSquito closes that gap.
NoSquito turns that scattered, county-by-county lookup into one statewide dashboard built on real Florida county data — actual mosquito activity levels, habitat risk factors, rainfall, and treatment status for every one of Florida’s 67 counties, not placeholder numbers. Every county’s treatment priority — Critical, High, Moderate, or Monitor — is plotted on a single interactive map. Click into any county to see exactly why it’s flagged, check a treatment forecast for how effective intervention is likely to be, or toggle between treatment priority, mosquito control, and weather layers to see what’s driving risk in a given area. Built-in search jumps straight to any county, and Skeeter, the dashboard’s built-in assistant, answers plain-language questions — “which counties need treatment right now,” “why is this county high priority” — reasoning directly over that same real dataset rather than guessing at answers.
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