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Mapping Vermont Flooding and Vulnerable Communities in Preparation for Future Events: IndexMethods1_Table

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Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Address:
705 Spear Street
South Burlington, Vermont 05403
United States of America

Phone: (802) 391-4135
Email: femc@uvm.edu
Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

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Vermont is expected to experience more frequent and more intense flooding. Often, groups who are socially vulnerable are more prone to flood hazard. This project identified “Vulnerable Frontline Vermont Communities” (VFVCs), towns who are both at risk for flooding, and experience high social vulnerability in Vermont. Flood risk was mapped with the Rapid Infrastructure Flooding Tool (PNNL, 2023), drone imagery, and E911 building footprints (VT E911, 2025). Towns with high social vulnerability were identified by mapping the agreement between environmental justice screening tools; EJScreen (EPA, 2024), the Climate Economic Justice Screening Tool (White House, 2024), the VT Environmental Disparities Index (Ren, 2023), and Municipal Climate Change Vulnerability Indicators List (VT ANR, 2025). Hot-spot analysis was performed to identify the towns that met the criteria to be a VFVC. An advisory board that included stakeholders in flood resiliency in Vermont were consulted throughout the project, and participated in a validation activity to ground-truth the VFVCs. In addition, a case study was held in Barre City, to evaluate the results at the community level. These data can be used to inform stakeholders in flood mitigation of strong candidates for equitable flood hazard mitigation in Vermont. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Geological Survey under Grant/Cooperative Agreement No. G21AP10630-00 to the Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center.

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Kristine Stepenuck: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

dataset_eml_peopleEndDate: 2025-08-31

Samantha Grant: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

dataset_eml_peopleEndDate: 2025-08-31

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Vermont Water Center Vermont Water Resources & Lake Studies Center: funder

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dataset_eml_datatabletitle: IndexMethods1_Table

dataset_eml_datatablestartdate: 2024-09-01

dataset_eml_datatableendate: 2025-08-31

dataset_eml_datatabledescription: This file contains the final scores for the Vulnerable Vermonters Index by town, and calculations for each individual indicator. It also provides the input data used to calculate each indicator score. The Vulnerable Vermonters Index is a representation of social vulnerability given inputs from at least one of four environmental justice screening tools: EJScreen (EPA, 2024), the Climate Economic Justice Screening Tool (White House, 2024), the Vermont Environmental Disparities Index (Ren, 2023), and the Municipal Climate Change Vulnerability Indicators List (VT ANR, 2025). The tools reflect data acquired from 2010 and 2020. The indicators used in the VVI were selected given peer reviewed literature, principal components analysis, and validation from the advisory board. Data are aggregated by town. There are no planned updates to this dataset, or maintenance activities. Read more about the methods at the following link: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/src/2025/lifescience/13/

dataset_eml_datatablepurpose: The purpose of this dataset to calculate scores for the Vulnerable Vermonters Index from the raw inputs.

dateset_eml_datatableshortname: 20250808104326_IndexMethod1_TableToExcel.xlsx

dataset_eml_datatablephysicalobjectname: VMC.1830.4051

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dataset_eml_datatablecitation: Grant, S. (2025). IndexMethods1_Table . FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/mapping-vermont-flooding-and-vulnerable-communities-in-preparation-for-future-events-/dataset/indexmethods1_table

dataset_eml_datatableonlinedistribution: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/mapping-vermont-flooding-and-vulnerable-communities-in-preparation-for-future-events-/dataset/indexmethods1_table