Frequently Asked Questions
FAQs
Heat vulnerably indices are helpful tools that allow end users to identify areas that are most vulnerable to heat. The priority areas are derived identified block groups which have the highest ranking across all three indicators.
You can use the heat vulnerability mapper to generate an overall HV index for your community, identify priority areas for HV , and select the community variables that are most important to you in order to help better target and design heat management policies and intervention.
Priority areas will dynamically update based on the specific variables selected by the user. For example if you are most interested in creating heat management intervention geared towards seniors who live alone in the highest heat exposures areas of a city, the HV mapper allows you to select only those variable you are most interested in and dynamically creates HV indices and priority areas based on your selection. You must choose this method in order to have the capability of creating the dynamic priority areas.
When creating dynamic priority areas you must select one heat exposure variable as well as at least one other variable from either the susceptibility indicator list or the adaptive capacity indicator list.
The block level analysis, downscales the socio-economic variables by total population or household count per block. Also, heat exposure data and the A.C. unit variable are both calculated at the block level.
The filter tool is only actionable at the block level zoom level. You can use the filter tool to help prioritize local blocks based on local context. Local context include population density, % impervious surface, % tree canopy, and A.C. unit available. You can use the slider to define the range at which blocks will be visible.
This feature is coming soon.