Heatscape NYC

Urban heat intervention planner — a 250 m grid ranking where cooling interventions matter most, from a systems view of greenery, heat, people and health.

Map layer

Colour scale · Heat

Selected cell

Click any grid cell on the map to see why its priority is high or low — indicator percentiles, recommended interventions and the live systems diagram.

Systems diagram

Causal structure of urban heat risk. Select a cell to trace which parts of the system are activated there.

Data: NYC Open Data, CDC PLACES, ACS 2023, Meta 1 m CHM, Sevtsuk et al. pedestrian flows. Percentiles ranked across populated cells only — cells without residents are excluded from prioritisation.