With Britain reaching record temperatures, use our postcode tool to find out how your area experiences extreme heat.
Using satellite data from 4 Earth Intelligence, the BBC mapped how vulnerable postcode areas were to extreme heat in England, Wales and Scotland during periods of hot weather over the past three summers - shown with a heat hazard score.
Each heat hazard score represents different sized groups, as shown in the scale. This is to highlight the places where the temperature in an area was higher compared to the rest of Great Britain, once the temperature had been adjusted to make it comparable across regions. The temperature data was then adjusted to consider the different average temperatures of each region, to highlight hotter areas across the country, despite varying climates and temperatures.1=40th percentile and lower, if you lined up all the postcodes by heat hazard score, your postcode is in the coolest 40%.
4=90th - 99th percentile, nine out of 10 postcodes have a lower heat hazard than yours and only 1% have a higher one.Why does my postcode show a square block?
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