A look at how Urban Adapt's heat risk assessments have shaped policy and planning decisions — from interactive public tools to citywide mitigation strategy.
Developed with the City & County of Honolulu, this public-facing ArcGIS StoryMap translates our heat risk assessment into interactive, policy-ready guidance for reducing heat exposure across Oʻahu.
Explore Oʻahu's heat exposure block by block, and see how targeted street tree and cool roofing investments change outcomes for the island's hottest neighborhoods.
Selected assessments and the outcomes they informed.
Our approach uses high-resolution climate modeling — down to roughly one city block — to simulate air temperature across a city's microclimates, then pairs it with epidemiological modeling to estimate real health impacts under different mitigation scenarios.
Each assessment models heat exposure under current land use, then simulates a series of mitigation scenarios — varying tree canopy and cool roofing by neighborhood — to guide policy decisions.