The urban heat islands toolkit developed by SUNY-ESF, the Davey Tree Expert Company, and the NYS
Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) examines past and future heat across New York State with
the i-Tree Cool Air temperature model.
Use one of the tools below to explore heat patterns in New York State using your web browser.
View neighborhood-scale maps from a simulated heat event. Overlay boundaries, land use, and census layers.
View simulated heat trends over time. Compare between areas and for future heat changes in tables and graphs.
Interact with and download experimental maps of the simulated hottest hour from 2010-2020.
Run the i-Tree Cool Air model. Adjust land use and model behavior to view changes in temperature.
Communities across New York State are susceptible to the urban heat island effect, which refers to urbanized and developed areas that lack natural green space and experience higher temperatures than outlying areas. DEC, in partnership with SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) and Davey Tree, is undertaking a project to develop statewide extreme heat exposure maps and web-based decision support tools to help communities better understand, plan for, and address extreme heat exposures and urban heat islands (UHIs) and their impacts
The tools on this website aim to support identifying of urban heat islands and high temperatures, particularly where there are communities more susceptible to illness or injury in extreme heat.
Temperature data presented in the tools is generated from the i-Tree Cool Air model, an air temperature and humidity model that uses spatial location data. To read more on the temperature modeling with the i-Tree Cool Air model & datasets used, click here.
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