Hollygrove-Dixon Neighborhood Association and New Orleans Green Infrastructure Collective worked with CAPA Strategies to design a Heat Watch campaign that would expand and update a 2020 heat map for New Orleans to include updated methodologies and an adjusted map area. The data will be used to inform future advocacy on urban tree planting and nature-based solutions in New Orleans.

By bringing together staff from the Erie County Sustainability Office, faculty from the University at Buffalo, and the Delavan-Grider Community Center, the Erie County campaign was able to recruit volunteers, leverage Sustainability Office interns and resources, and draw on the expertise of academic faculty with experience in community-engaged research.

Building on their previous informational campaign, “Stay Cool Missoula,” staff from Missoula County, City of Missoula, and Climate Smart Missoula conducted the first-ever Heat Watch campaign in Montana in August 2025.

Caribbean Regenerative Community Development Corporation (CRCD) led a highly participatory, community-led, and engaging Heat Watch campaign in southwestern Puerto Rico. By combining heat mapping data with mobile and stationary air quality data, the CRCD team hopes to inform future tree planting campaigns.

The Works, Inc. collaborated with staff from the City of Memphis and Shelby County and faculty from the University of Memphis to conduct a Heat Watch campaign to study extreme heat in Memphis in 2025. One goal of this campaign is to better understand how heat may contribute to extreme differences in life expectancy in different parts of Memphis.

Heat data collection in Moab will help organizers better understand how extreme heat and air quality are affecting Moab residents and how city officials can better prepare the thousands of visitors who enjoy Moab’s public lands each year for the heat.