Bellport/North Bellport

Bellport/North Bellport Climate and Environmental Justice Map #1

In the map below, you can view and compare patterns across the district’s geography on:

Extent of tree cover change between 1985 and 2021
Tree cover in 1985, 2000, and 2021
Racial demographics (White alone versus Black alone) by census tract in 1960, 1990, and 2020
Census tracts in this district rated as “disadvantaged” by New York State
Heat island susceptiblity

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Zooming in and out
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Compare the district’s demographics and tree cover across time
Correlate tree cover with heat island risks.

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Notes on this data:

The tree canopy cover (TCC) data was developed by the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (Forest Service), and is based on its digital analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery. It is based on “live tally trees” and their “canopies” (outlines of foilage) sampled across 144 square feet areas, then calculated as a percentage of tree cover. It excludes non-tree cropland as well as lawns. To correct for the sometimes ambiguous results in high- as well as low-density urban areas, each of these categories of land use undergoes an additional masking process to achieve more accurate results. For further discussion of the methodology, consult here.
The heat island data comes from Chakraborty, TC; Hsu, Angel; Sheriff, Glenn ; Manya, Diego (2020), “United States Surface Urban Heat Island database”, Mendeley Data, V2, doi: 10.17632/x9mv4krnm2.2, linked here. It is based on satellite, elevation, and land and tree cover data gathered between 2010-2017. For more information on the metholodology, see this article: T. Chakraborty, A. Hsu, D. Manya, G. Sheriff. “A spatially explicit surface urban heat island database for the United States: Characterization, uncertainties, and possible applications,” ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 68(2020), pp. 74-88. ISSN 0924-2716,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.07.021.

Bellport/North Bellport Climate and Environmental Justice Map #2

In the map below, you can view and compare patterns across the district’s geography on:

Racial demographics (White alone versus Black alone) in 1960, 1990, and 2020
Air pollution (2.5 mm particulates)
Health data: no health insurance, rates of asthma- and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) visits to emergency rooms
Home ownership 2020
Median household income 2020

Using the data/layer selector (opened and closed from arrows in the lower right hand corner), select what data you’d like to see mapped. Be sure to unselect other data above it in the list that might get in the way of your selection (for instance, if you want look at the mapping of COPD data, you’ll need to unselect the asthma data above that). Then you should see the mapping of the information you’ve selected.

To make the map more easily visible, you can click the right-pointing arrows at the bottom-right to hide the selection panel. Feel free to interact with the map by

Zooming in and out
Searching for a particular address or town (upper right for search engine)
Compare the district’s demographics across time
Correlate health data with air pollution data.

To open up a full-screen version of the map, you can also go here.

Disadvantaged Communities within the District (NYS Criteria)

This map identifies those areas in the district that are among those throughout the State meeting the final disadvantaged community definition as voted on by the Climate Justice Working Group on March 27th, 2023. Designations of disadvantaged communities are based on 45 indicators compiled by the working group to create an overall index of the differential burden from cumulative impacts–environmental and climate-related as well as social and economic–faced by different communities across the state. For more information see here. We’ve also created a page on which you can search the results of the indicators for Long Island tracts and towns, here.