Welcome to our Smoke Detector Outreach Locator!
Use this map to determine potential venues for effective outreach programs:
- Specify a range of fire risk levels you would like to include on the map, from 1 (low) to 10 (high).
- Check which types of locations you would like to consider for your program.
- Select a buffer distance to see how many people outreach at a selected location can potentially impact.
- Click "Update Map."
Reset the map to clear the data.
Other information:
- Hover over a grid cell to see more details about that particular area.
- Hover over a park, school, or library for specific details, and click to select that location.
- Population data is interpolated from US Census information.
This application uses predicted fire risk data from an algorithm built by University of Pennsylvania masters students.
To read more about how fire risk has been defined and what motivated this project, please hit "Back to Musa" to read our report.