We build heat risk assessments and climate adaptation plans that go beyond temperature alone — mapping exposure, health outcomes, and adaptive capacity at the neighborhood scale.
Urban Adapt helps cities understand — and reduce — the human cost of extreme heat.
We build heat risk assessments and climate adaptation plans that go beyond temperature alone. Our models map three dimensions of vulnerability at the neighborhood scale: exposure to extreme air temperatures, health outcomes like heat-related deaths, and a household's capacity to adapt.
It's the only approach that combines high-resolution heat mapping with neighborhood-level health impact modeling — so cities can see not just where it's hottest, but where heat actually costs lives, and how interventions like street trees and cool roofs change that picture.
Urban Adapt LLC is staffed by researchers from the Urban Climate Lab of Georgia Tech, which has partnered with cities on heat management strategy for more than a decade.
High-resolution simulation of air temperature and humidity during summer daily high temperatures.
View example →Neighborhood-scale estimates of heat-related health outcomes, including mortality.
View example →Assessment of household-level resources and constraints in responding to extreme heat.
View example →Simulated outcomes under interventions like expanded tree canopy or cooling infrastructure.
View example →Get in touch to discuss an assessment for your community.
This is an illustrative example. Final imagery and copy will vary by city and engagement.