HeatShield 26 is a geospatial decision-support platform covering Houston inside Loop 610. It finds where event crowds, extreme heat, social and health vulnerability, missing shade and poor cooling access overlap at any of 6 real Houston venues — and tells planners where cooling hubs, shade, water and shuttles do the most good.
H3AT street-level heat models, USFS tree canopy, Landsat surface temperature, CDC social vulnerability and chronic-disease prevalence, City of Houston cool centers.
Attendance and arrival-mode assumptions are routed from METRORail stations, each venue's nearby lots and garages (by real or estimated capacity), rideshare curbs and walk-ups to the gates.
A transparent Heat Event Risk Index: 40% heat, 25% crowd, 20% vulnerability, 10% shade deficit, 5% cooling access. Every weight is adjustable.
Place cooling hubs, shade, water or shuttles and watch the metrics move — or give the optimizer a budget and get a ranked portfolio.
Pick the venue — NRG Stadium, Daikin Park, Toyota Center, Shell Energy Stadium, TDECU Stadium or Rice Stadium — and swap the attendance and arrival assumptions; the same pipeline scores an Astros game, a Rockets or Dynamo night, a Texans Sunday, the Rodeo, a UH or Rice football Saturday, or a citywide heat emergency. Cooling hubs and shade placed for one event become reusable resilience infrastructure for the neighborhoods around it.