Join us for a webinar introducing and demonstrating the newly launched Shade Map, now available through American Forests’ Tree Equity Score platform. This mapping tool shows where shade exists — and where it doesn’t — in 101 of the largest urbanized areas in the United States, covering more than 360 cities and towns.

Why attend: Learn how this data is essential for your heat planning, policy, and advocacy work.

When: Thursday, June 5, 2025, at 12:00 PM Pacific Time

Where: Register here to receive the Zoom link to attend.

Presented by: UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and American Forests, with funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

About the Tree Equity Score Shade Map 

We are excited to publicly launch our products on June 2, 2025. UCLA’s state-of-the-art shade data is available as a mapped feature in American Forests’ Tree Equity Score for 360+ cities in the U.S. Discover how much shade is available by Census block group at three different times of the day, and see what share of shade is cast by trees versus buildings. We also added high-resolution shade data to three Tree Equity Score Analyzers — a local mapping tool that allows parcel-level exploration for certain cities. Now, for these three areas — Austin, TX; Detroit, MI; and Maricopa County, AZ — users can view shade at the parcel level. It allows users in these three locations to plan to improve shade equity by exploring tree equity data, assessing shade distribution, developing scenarios, and measuring the impacts of trees at a parcel level. For Austin, Detroit, and Phoenix, our data stories take a deep dive into shade. We explored the role of shade in heat equity planning in three immersive stories as examples of how the tool can be useful.