Beat the Heat Broward

About the Program

Category: Civic Education and Public Information

Year: 2023

Broward County’s Beat the Heat Broward Storymap was designed to create a public facing landing page containing information on heat in Broward County that could empower both the Broward resident, and resilience planner/ government employee to take informed action given the presented disparity of extreme heat distribution and the forecasted increase in temperature. The Storymap is the first County offered resource where users can explore temperature trends, vulnerability hotspots, mitigation and adaptation strategies, and heat emergency prevention tips. Since its debut in July 2022, the Storymap has attracted several hundred users, with benefits that include, increased solution probing with municipal partners and field experts, expansion of the County’s enhanced local mitigation strategy on heat, more efficient dissemination of information upon request, an irrefutable display of need for investment and action across vulnerable communities, and bolstered grant applications.