This platform explores the relationship between power outages across Los Angeles and the environmental, socio-economic, and public-health equity factors of the communities that experience them. The two side-by-side maps move together, outages on the left and equity on the right, so patterns can be compared directly. It offers three primary features:

• Power Outage Exploration: Explore outages across the LADWP service area from 2011 onward, broken down by year, month, time of day, and cause, viewed as either outage frequency or total duration.
• Equity Matrix: Investigate socio-economic, environmental, and health factors at the census-tract level, with detailed demographics for every tract in Los Angeles County.
• Correlation Analysis: The synchronized maps let you visually connect outage patterns with equity factors and uncover where burdens overlap.

Equity data comes from CalEnviroScreen 4.0 (California OEHHA) at the census-tract level; boundaries come from the City of Los Angeles open GIS portal; the basemap is the open-source MapLibre framework on CARTO tiles. The outage layer has two modes (toggle in the left panel): Modeled history (2011-2026) is an in-schema reconstruction, since no public point-level LADWP outage history exists; Live now shows real current outages from the California Open Data feed (SCE / PG&E / SDG&E). Best viewed on PC, Mac, or tablet.

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