Rating

Low Cold Impact

Scale55-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Highlight places with less recurring cold impact by combining the approved thermometer-cold burden with freezing and subzero wind-chill persistence.

Sources

3 sources

1991-2020 normals

Data: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual/seasonal and hourly station normals matched from a representative named-community point using nearby-station distance and elevation fit.
What it tells us: Supplies thermometer-cold burden and recurring apparent-cold persistence at nearby stations; it is a representative-point climate proxy rather than a full place-boundary measurement.

Current dedicated Target Elevation fact run

Data: Official Populated Place coordinates and Census place codes used to select a community-core point instead of a potentially unrepresentative boundary centroid.
What it tells us: Identifies the named settlement point sampled for elevation; unmatched places and a documented reviewed geography exception retain their Census internal point explicitly.

Current dedicated Target Elevation fact run

Data: Bilinear terrain-elevation sample at the representative community coordinate selected for each place, with a small nearby-sample fallback for exact no-data cells.
What it tells us: Provides the representative place elevation used to measure distance from the selected target; it does not describe the full elevation range within the place.

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