Heat Watch Campaigns

CAPA Strategies has developed a process to help cities plan and execute a volunteer-based community science field campaign that builds upon local partnerships, engages residents in a scientific study to map and understand how heat is distributed in their communities, and produces high-quality outputs that have been used in city sustainability plans, public health practices, urban forestry, research projects, and other engagement activities.

These reports contain maps that show a  combination  of  all  the traverse  data  points,  colored  by temperature,  for  the  morning, afternoon, and evening, in addition to a 'heat index' map that incorporates temperature  and  humidity to describe the area of interest for  the  morning, afternoon, and evening.

Urban Heat Island maps, as well as the underlying datasets used to produce them, are available to download for a number of cities across the United States. Heat Watch Campaigns are curently underway for other cities across the United States. Data and reports for these areas will be uploaded when they become available.