Minnesota is experiencing an increase in annual average precipitation along with more heavy rainfall events. Looking ahead, Minnesota communities may experience additional flooding and negative public health impacts including physical injuries, allergies from mold growth, food and water-borne illnesses, food insecurity, displacement, mental wellbeing issues, and disruption of emergency services. This tool is intended to help city/county planners, emergency managers, and public health professionals understand community vulnerability to the potential health impacts of flooding.
With this tool, you can visualize datasets that contribute to a community's sensitivity exposure to flooding. Community sensitivity data encompasses population health factors along with environment and infrastructure factors. Exposure data includes historic and projected data. Sensitivity and exposure data are displayed as vulnerability indices. The sensitivity index should be interpreted as a community's resilience to flooding while the exposure index should be interpreted as a community's historic and future level of exposure to flooding. Higher values indicate a higher vulnerability. Sensitivity data include data about population, demographics, socioeconomic status, health conditions and several other relevant topics. Exposure data refer to historic and projected climate variables that play an important role in understanding past, present, and future flooding and precipitation.
With this tool, you can visualize any combination of variables to understand what factors are influencing community vulnerability to flooding. The tool is composed of two map views. The map on the left is for analyzing community sensitivity and the map on the right is for analyzing community exposure.
You can add and remove as many layers as you would like. Each time you add or remove a layer, the vulnerability index is recalculated and the result is displayed on the map. The vulnerability index displayed on the map is always calculated based on the layers that are currently selected. For more information about how the index is calculated, see the vulnerability indices section on the data page.
In addition to choosing which variables contribute to the vulnerability index, you can also decide which spatial unit the index will be calculated for. When working with block group and city data, please allow time for the index to update and display. This can take several seconds in some cases.
Minnesota is experiencing an increase in annual average precipitation along with more heavy rainfall events. Looking ahead, Minnesota communities may experience additional flooding and negative public health impacts including physical injuries, allergies from mold growth, food and water-borne illnesses, food insecurity, displacement, mental wellbeing issues, and disruption of emergency services. This tool is intended to help city/county planners, emergency managers, and public health professionals understand community vulnerability to the potential health impacts of flooding.
With this tool, you can visualize datasets that contribute to a community's sensitivity exposure to flooding. Community sensitivity data encompasses population health factors along with environment and infrastructure factors. Exposure data includes historic and projected data. Sensitivity and exposure data are displayed as vulnerability indices. The sensitivity index should be interpreted as a community's resilience to flooding while the exposure index should be interpreted as a community's historic and future level of exposure to flooding. Higher values indicate a higher vulnerability. Sensitivity data include data about population, demographics, socioeconomic status, health conditions and several other relevant topics. Exposure data refer to historic and projected climate variables that play an important role in understanding past, present, and future flooding and precipitation.
With this tool, you can visualize any combination of variables to understand what factors are influencing community vulnerability to flooding. The tool is composed of two map views. The map on the left is for analyzing community sensitivity and the map on the right is for analyzing community exposure.
You can add and remove as many layers as you would like. Each time you add or remove a layer, the vulnerability index is recalculated and the result is displayed on the map. The vulnerability index displayed on the map is always calculated based on the layers that are currently selected. For more information about how the index is calculated, see the vulnerability indices section on the data page.
In addition to choosing which variables contribute to the vulnerability index, you can also decide which spatial unit the index will be calculated for. When working with block group and city data, please allow time for the index to update and display. This can take several seconds in some cases.