Visual Summary
Visual Summary Multimodal Guide
Tristan Ballard
Created: May 22, 2025 - Updated: May 22, 2025
The Multimodal feature of Visual Summary enables users to explore datasets that complement Sust Global's core climate risk and financial impact datasets. These complementary datasets span socio-demographic, economic, resilience, biodiversity, and other physical risks.
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 | Units | Geographic Coverage | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance Premiums | USD | U.S. | Keys and Mulder 2024 |
| Insurance Nonrenewals | rate | U.S. | U.S. Senate Budget Committee |
| Vacancy Rate | rate | U.S. | U.S. Census |
| Median Income | USD | U.S. | U.S. Census |
| GDP | USD | U.S. | U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis |
| Population | count | U.S. | U.S. Census |
| Commute Time | minutes | U.S. | U.S. Census |
| Poverty Rate | percent | U.S. | U.S. Census |
| Biodiversity | score [0 to 100] | Global | UN Biodiversity Lab |
| Earthquake | peak ground acceleration | Global | Global Earthquake Model |
| Hail | days/year | U.S. | NOAA Storm Prediction Center |
| Tornadoes | days/year | U.S. | NOAA Storm Prediction Center |
| Severe Wind | days/year | U.S. | NOAA Storm Prediction Center |
| Severe Thunderstorms | days/year | U.S. | NOAA Storm Prediction Center |
| Subsidence | mm/year | Global | Davydzenka et al. 2024, Colorado School of Mines |
| Landslide | annual frequency | U.S. | FEMA National Risk Index |
| Coldwave | annual frequency | U.S. | FEMA National Risk Index |
| Volcanic Activity | annual frequency | U.S. | FEMA National Risk Index |
| Tsunami | annual frequency | U.S. | FEMA National Risk Index |
| Avalanche | annual frequency | 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.