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Scrutinizing Index-Based Risk Assessments: A Case Study in NYC Decision-making for Heat Emergency Management

Allison Koenecke, Angelina Wang, Jennah Gosciak, Luke Boyce

Different choices of variables or spatial scale in risk indices can produce substantively different scores for NYC heat emergency targeting.

arxiv:2605.17697 v1 · 2026-05-17 · cs.CY

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different reasonable choices of input variables or spatial scale can result in substantive differences to index risk scores, thereby affecting downstream government decision-making

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That variations in index scores arising from reasonable design choices in variables or spatial scale constitute challenges to validity and reliability for emergency management decisions, as mapped from the measurement literature.

C3one line summary

Sensitivity analyses of NYC heat emergency indices show that reasonable variations in input variables and spatial scale lead to substantially different risk scores affecting downstream government decisions.

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[1] NYC Emergency Management Heat Emergency Plan: Local Law 85 of 2020 2020

[2] How Extreme Heat is Impacting India 2025

[3] Human Development Index (HDI) 2025

[4] Enoch J Abbey, Banda AA Khalifa, Modupe O Oduwole, Samuel K Ayeh, Richard D Nudotor, Emmanuella L Salia, Oluwatobi Lasisi, Seth Bennett, Hasiya E Yusuf, Allison L Agwu, et al. 2020. The Global Health 2020

[5] Federal Emergency Management Agency. [n. d.]. The National Risk Index. https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/

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arxiv: 2605.17697 · arxiv_version: 2605.17697v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17697 · pith_short_12: R2D6RV3LLOHT · pith_short_16: R2D6RV3LLOHTGDTL · pith_short_8: R2D6RV3L

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