Visual Summary Multimodal Guide

Multimodal Dataset Search

Sust Global’s modeling platform integrates multimodal data—a combination of diverse data types from multiple sources—to provide high-resolution, asset-level insights into physical climate risks and financial impacts. This data fusion enables robust, location-specific analysis across hazard types, sectors, and time horizons.

Our Populous framework ingests a wide array of data — from demographic and economic indicators to detailed climate risk metrics and even signals from a Google-developed foundation model. By combining diverse data sources, we can create models that build a rich, context-aware representation of risk that far surpasses siloed traditional approaches.

Here we provide county-level visualization and download access to some of the datasets used in our Populous framework. Many demographic variables listed here are available for specific years, as well as for short-term (1-year) and long-term (decade) changes. Higher resolution versions and additional historical years are available upon request.

Data Dictionary

Dataset	Summary Description	Units	Refresh Rate	Geographic Coverage	Source
Population	total population	count	annual	U.S.	U.S. Census
GDP	gross domestic product	USD	annual	U.S.	U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Median Income	median household income	USD	annual	U.S.	U.S. Census
Poverty Rate	percent living below poverty line	percent	annual	U.S.	U.S. Census
College Education	percent of population with bachelors or higher degree	%	annual	U.S.	U.S. Census
Commute Time	average commute time	minutes	annual	U.S.	U.S. Census
Total Housing Units	total residential units	count	annual	U.S.	U.S. Census
Home Construction Year	median residential construction year	year	annual	U.S.	U.S. Census
Vacancy Rate	residential vacancy rate	rate	annual	U.S.	U.S. Census
Insurance Premiums	median residential insurance premium	USD	annual	U.S.	Keys and Mulder 2024
Insurance Nonrenewals	residential insurance nonrenewal rate	rate	annual	U.S.	U.S. Senate Budget Committee
Social Resilience	resilience based on multiple population attributes	score [0 to 1]	infrequent	U.S.	Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities
Economic Resilience	resilience based on population financial well-being	score [0 to 1]	infrequent	U.S.	Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities
Infrastructure Resilience	resilience based on built environment	score [0 to 1]	infrequent	U.S.	Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities
Institutional Resilience	resilience based on governance and disaster preparedness	score [0 to 1]	infrequent	U.S.	Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities
Community Resilience	resilience based on social connectivity	score [0 to 1]	infrequent	U.S.	Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities
Environmental Resilience	resilience based on natural resources and conditions	score [0 to 1]	infrequent	U.S.	Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities
Total Resilience	sum of six resilience scores	score [0 to 6]	infrequent	U.S.	Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities
Biodiversity	priority areas for biodiversity conservation	score [0 to 100]	infrequent	Global	UN Biodiversity Lab
Earthquake	seismic risk	peak ground acceleration	static	Global	Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program; Giardini et al.
Subsidence	subsidence rate	mm/year	infrequent	Global	Davydzenka et al. 2024, Colorado School of Mines
Hail	days with severe (>1.0”) hail risk	days/year	annual	U.S.	NOAA Storm Prediction Center
Tornadoes	days with severe (EF1+) tornado risk	days/year	annual	U.S.	NOAA Storm Prediction Center
Severe Wind	days with severe (>33m/s) non-hurricane wind risk	days/year	annual	U.S.	NOAA Storm Prediction Center
Severe Thunderstorms	days with severe convective storms risk	days/year	annual	U.S.	NOAA Storm Prediction Center
Landslide	landslide risk	annual frequency	annual	U.S.	FEMA National Risk Index
Coldwave	consecutive extreme low temperatures risk	annual frequency	annual	U.S.	FEMA National Risk Index
Volcanic Activity	volcanic risk	annual frequency	annual	U.S.	FEMA National Risk Index
Tsunami	tsunami risk	annual frequency	annual	U.S.	FEMA National Risk Index
Avalanche	avalanche risk	annual frequency	annual	U.S.	FEMA National Risk Index

Multimodal Model Integration

We support the development of customized multimodal modeling workflows tailored to your target variable. These workflows integrate the datasets listed above, our core climate modeling suite, and additional proprietary inputs and model architectures. Contact us to learn more.