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Resilience Insights

July 2023

Base Canvas Updates

  • Improved commercial land use typing. An update to the underlying point-of-interest data has improved the typing of commercial land use.

  • More accurate land use and employment information – An update to the underlying OpenStreetMap point and polygon data yields more accurate land use typing and employment information.

  • Incorporated an additional parcel provider – We integrated an additional data provider with nationwide coverage.

  • Improved Dwelling Unit assignment – We leveraged additional parcel data to better align our dwelling unit estimation with the Census.

Climate & Hazard Insights

  • Added parcel-level hazard data. These are the raw hazard values intersecting each parcel. 

  • Appended tract level exposure aggregations with select FEMA National Risk Index (NRI) columns.

  • Added these additional datasets:

    • exposure to present and future hurricane winds at Category 1-5 speeds.

    • exposure to present and future (RCP8.5) extreme temperatures.

    • exposure to present and future (RCP8.5) extreme precipitation.