Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
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This demo shows NOAA’s future heat events by overlaying NOAA projected heat events and CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), which uses U.S. Census data to determine the social vulnerability of every county. The SVI ranks each county on 15 social factors, including poverty, lack of vehicle access, and crowded housing, and groups them into four related themes.