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Overall Social Vulnerability Index

Social Vulnerability Index (Overall)
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Combines many social and economic factors into a single score of how vulnerable each neighborhood is to disasters. Areas are ranked as a percentile from least to most vulnerable.

How it's made. Built from U.S. census and demographic data combined into an overall percentile ranking.

How & where you'd use it. Helps planners and responders prioritize the communities most at risk when disaster strikes.

What's measured

socialvulnerabilityindexoverall

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2000-01-01 → 2018-12-31
  • Spatial extent-178.233, 18.908, -66.958, 71.383
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

Overall Social Vulnerability Index - Percentile ranking

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("social-vulnerability-index-overall")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).