ClimaWATCH

ClimaWATCH (Climate and Weather Analytics, Trends and Community Health) facilitates community heat vulnerability assessments. The dynamic dashboard tool provides statistics and visualizations to (1) identify communities hardest hit by heatwaves; (2) assess which are most vulnerable to them based on demographic, social, environmental, and infrastructural features; and (3) quantify excess health service use and spending attributable to heatwaves. To learn more about the data and methods behind ClimaWATCH, see the About documentation .

This tool is currently in beta testing mode. Please contact us if you have any comments or feedback (select Publications from dropdown box).

Exposure to Heatwaves

Year (Note: Medicaid data were only available 2016 – 2020)

The colors in the slider bar indicate years with relatively fewer (yellow) or more (dark red) heatwaves across the country.

State

Heatwave definition

Click and drag to zoom to a selected date range.

Double click to reset.

Socio-Environmental Vulnerability

Percent Minority (MPct) Minority/Language (M/L) Socioeconomic Status (SES) Household Composition/Disability (HH/Dis) Housing/Transportation (H/T)

Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) National Risk Index (NRI) Impervious Surface Cover(ISC) Tree Inequity Score (TIS)

Excess Health Care Use & Spending due to Heat

Year

Heatwave definition

Group type

Diagnosis

Metric

Communities Most Affected (Sortable Table)

Year

State

Heatwave definition

Group type

Diagnosis

Vulnerability metric

Excess metric