Power outages are climate events. For residents dependent on powered medical equipment — ventilators, oxygen concentrators, powered wheelchairs — they're potentially fatal.
VitalGrid maps where outage risk meets medical device dependency across Philadelphia neighborhoods, so planners act before the lights go out.
Live tool: https://meyeringn.github.io/vitalgrid
- Composite Power Vulnerability Score for 36 Philadelphia neighborhoods
- Five tabs: Neighborhood Map, Equity Analysis, Compare, Policy Actions, Medical Devices
- Adjustable weights, policy recommendation generator, canvas charts
- Fully accessible, single HTML file — no dependencies
- EIA-861 Utility Data
- Pennsylvania PUC Outage Reports
- CDC PLACES (disability & health)
- CMS Durable Medical Equipment claims
- American Community Survey (ACS)
- NOAA Climate Hazard Indices
- First Street Foundation
- CanopyWatch — Urban tree canopy equity
- VitalGrid — Power outage vulnerability
- Transit Carbon Calculator - Carbon savings data for your commute
- FloodRisk - Plain language flood risk lookup