Resilience

The heat-mapping process convenes many key stakeholders who carry momentum for climate adaptation and resilience efforts in their city. The high-resolution outputs serve as cornerstones for resilience plans, helping cities to better prepare socially and physically to increasing risk and exposure to extreme heat.

Community

Community partners expand their engagement through the collection, assessment, and interpretation of climate adaptation through direct observations about how the landscapes we create can affect temperatures. Together, we build solutions and legitimacy leading to local action.

Urban Planning

As planners consider future development and infrastructure changes, visual descriptions of the spatial distribution and intensity of heat exposure across the urban landscape serve to direct and underscore the need for heat-conscious design. These high-resolution maps may also be used to monitor the impact of such changes over time. 

Public Health

Risks for heat-related illness is highly preventable, yet it kills more than all other natural disasters across the United States. When combining high resolution heat maps alongside potential health vulnerability, pinpointing effective interventions during a heatwave helps to save lives.

Urban Greening

Green infrastructure provides significant, long-term benefits for heat mitigation, and by visualizing the hottest places in your region, diverse stakeholders can work together to identify the opportunities for cooling extreme heat. In-effect, these actions can improve the health and well-being of communities.