The Virgin Islands counts $849.9 million in unmet housing needs, pays about 42 cents a kilowatt-hour for electricity its utility says costs 62 cents to make, runs its entire hospital system on two storm-battered public hospitals, and is waiting on a $1.25 billion replacement of one island's drinking-water system.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Every measure carries its value, class, geography, year, definition, context and source. The Virgin Islands is the sparsest data environment in this series, and this page says so rather than smoothing it over: the national instruments that structure most state pages largely do not cover the territory — no TTI congestion coverage, no CHQPR or Chartis hospital screen, no USDA food-access atlas or Map the Meal Gap rate, no ASCE report card, and no EIA state electricity profile in the state form. What is printed instead is the territory's own published accounting: its CDBG-DR unmet-needs assessment, its authorities' legislative testimony, DOE's territory energy page and FEMA's obligation figures.
Two categories are published honestly empty. Traffic: no TTI figure exists for any Virgin Islands urban area, so the category prints no measure (the Vermont precedent). Dams: the territory does not appear in published National Inventory of Dams high-hazard listings and its water system is desalination, groundwater and cisterns rather than reservoir dams; no dam figure could be verified, so none is printed. Bridges is a partial gap of the same kind: FHWA's National Bridge Inventory carries a USVI row over a fleet of only about two dozen structures, but no clean poor-condition share could be verified from the published tables, so the roads category prints the verified FEMA mileage figure alone.
Instruments are never blended, and the same federal dollars are never silently double-counted: where a FEMA obligation appears on both pages — the $1.25B St. Croix water replacement and the $1.75B / 481-mile paving programme — it is printed on the built page as a project and on this page as the published price of the underlying need, and each record says so. The CDBG-DR Action Plan's $4,685,847,621 of assessed unmet infrastructure need (all sectors combined, 2020) is context for the whole page and is deliberately not assigned to any single category. News-flagged: several measures rest on news reporting of official figures — VIHA's deferred-maintenance testimony, WAPA's obligated-versus-spent testimony and the FEMA utility obligations via the St. John Tradewinds — each flagged on its record.