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

dataset_eml_datatablestartdate: 2024-09-01

dataset_eml_datatableendate: 2025-08-31

dataset_eml_datatabledescription: This file contains the final scores, and final indicator scores, for the Vulnerable Vermonters Index aggregated by town. In addition, the file contains the classifications for 'Vulnerable Frontline Vermont Communities' in binary. The VVI is a representation of social vulnerability given inputs from at least one of four environmental justice screening tools: EPA EJScreen, White House CEQ Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, the Vermont Environmental Disparities Index, and VT ANR Municipal Climate Vulnerability Indicators List. These tools are publicly available. The tools reflect data between 2010 and 2020. The indicators in the VVI were selected based off of peer reviewed literature, principal components analysis, and a validation of an advisory board used in the study. The VVI shows data in mean, percentile and rank formats. Please view the 'IndexMethods1' file to see the individual scores for each indicator. There are no planned updated to this dataset.

dataset_eml_datatablepurpose: The objective of this dataset is to document the final Vulnerable Vermonters Index scores, and to document the final Vulnerable Frontline Vermont Community identifications.

dateset_eml_datatableshortname: 20250808104506_VulnerableVermontersIndex_Table.xlsx

dataset_eml_datatablephysicalobjectname: VMC.1830.4050

dataset_eml_datatabledatatype: mySQL

dataset_eml_datatablecitation: Grant, S (2025) VulnerableVermontersIndex_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/vulnerablevermontersindex_table

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