Fig. 2: Number of the vulnerable counties (non-heat mortality counties) and Diff under the state-level AC coverage assumption.
From: An inference approach for assessing place-based vulnerability to heat mortality
a, b U.S. county-level impacts of the nine decisive factors associated with vulnerability to extreme heat are grouped into impacts on counties with mortality data (a, Vulnerable Counties) and impacts on counties with no mortality data (b, non-heat mortality counties). The vertical coordinates in the middle are the nine decisive factors we select that are frequently used in studies of extreme heat weather vulnerability; the left side represents the number of counties dominated by each factor, indicating the quantity of each factor; the right side represents the mean value of the relative difference between the counties dominated by each decisive factor and their matched counties (Diff), indicating the quality of each factor, and the error bars represent the 95% confidence intervals.
