San Diego Union Tribune published
San Diego County residents can now understand their risk of extreme heat exposure and prepare for heat waves with the San Diego Heat Risk Explorer, a tool scientists are describing as the first interactive localized heat risk map of the county.
The San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative at the University of San Diego and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation collaborated to create the Heat Risk Explorer. Introduced to the public earlier this month, it uses census data and factors such as income levels and green space proximity to inform which communities are most vulnerable to extreme heat and would benefit from increased support. Users of the Heat Risk Explorer can toggle variables under heat risk exposure, population sensitivity and access to resources to build their own composite risk map.
The map is available online to the public at San Diego Heat Risk Explorer: https://cccia-sio.github.io/socal-heat-hub/main/heat_risk_map.html
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