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California heat, canopy & equity screening

See which California census tracts screen higher for heat, low tree canopy, and vulnerability. 

Canopulse combines five documented public-data components into one relative statewide screen. Explore a tract, understand what drives its ranking, and export a source-backed report.

Relative screening only · Not eligibility, site selection, or current conditions

Canopulse Explorer

Linking dataset

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Canopulse | California UCRI tract preview
Frozen model
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Cycling the release's top-ranked tracts. Hover a ring to decode it, click to open the reportFrozen screening baseline

Real release data in every view. Nothing here is invented.Fresno, California

  • 9,129California tract records
  • 58counties, statewide
  • 783city/place records
  • 30/30automated QA gates passing
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Linking statewide ranking

From screening to report

Find a tract. See what drives the score.
Export the evidence.

A clear path from
map to understanding.
01 / FIND

Start with a place.

Search California by county, city or place, tract number, or GEOID.

Canopulse Explorer showing its search field, Fresno tract map, and selected Tract 4Explore Fresno
02 / SEE WHY

Understand the ranking.

Inspect the components, underlying conditions, ranking context, confidence, and source trail behind the tract's score.

Actual selected tract intelligence panel: UCRI 89.0, statewide rank 118, and its score driversInspect the tract
03 / EXPORT

Keep the evidence together.

Generate a tract-level screening report that keeps the score, drivers, sources, release context, and limitations together.

First page of the actual Fresno Tract 4 screening report, including maps, score, ranks, and executive summaryOpen sample report
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58 counties. 9,129 California census tracts.

One statewide operating model, organized for county-scale orientation and full-resolution tract review.

02 / 05

Every record is linked to a 2020 California tract.

Stable 11-digit GEOIDs connect the map, scores, ranks, raw conditions, provenance, and reports.

03 / 05

Five documented signals retain their source context.

Canopy deficit, heat exposure, impervious surface, social vulnerability, and environmental burden remain inspectable below the composite.

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UCRI = 0.25 CDS + 0.25 HES + 0.15 ISS + 0.20 SVS + 0.15 EBS.

California UCRI uses statewide percentiles and CalEnviroScreen 5.0 Pollution Burden for EBS.

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1,810 tracts screen as Extreme.

Extreme is a relative category in the current statewide UCRI distribution, not an emergency or health-risk designation. Every highlighted tract remains traceable to the July 2026 release.

Documented public data

See where every component comes from.

View sources

Canopulse keeps source products, vintages, model versions, and release context visible so published screening results can be inspected and reproduced.

Urban Canopy Risk Index

One documented relative index.
Five components.

UCRI combines five statewide screening components using fixed published weights.

25%

Canopy deficit

CDS
25%

Heat exposure

HES
15%

Impervious surface

ISS
20%

Social vulnerability

SVS
15%

Environmental burden

EBS

UCRI= 0.25 CDS + 0.25 HES + 0.15 ISS + 0.20 SVS + 0.15 EBS

See the full methodology

UCRI is a relative screening index. It does not establish funding eligibility, parcel feasibility, project approval, medical risk, or current field conditions. Local evidence and current program requirements should be reviewed before making a project decision.

Your next step

Start with a California tract.

Search by county, city or place, tract number, or GEOID.

California Heat, Canopy & Equity Screening