Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing network traffic associated with generating event predictions based on cognitive image analysis are disclosed. The system receives a user input indicating a location identifier of a location of interest. The system queries a data store to determine whether an image associated with the location of interest satisfies a data recency criterion. In response to the image failing to satisfy the data recency criterion, the system queries a remote data store to determine whether another, additional image associated with the location of interest satisfies the data recency criterion. In response to the additional image satisfying the data recency criterion, the system extracts one or more image-based attributes of the additional image and determines a distance between objects of the image. The system generates an event prediction based on the image-based attributes, the distance, and location-based attributes using a machine learning model to be displayed.