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Traditional urban-rural dichotomy depending on the built-up and non-urban lands is challenged in characterizing regional SUHIs, such as how to accurately quantify the intensity, spatial pattern, and scales of SUHIs, which are vulnerable to SUHIs, and what the optimal scale for conducting measures to mitigate the SUHIs. We propose a machine-learning-assisted solution to address these problems based on the thermal similarity in the Yangtze River Delta of China. We first identified the regional-level SUHI zone of approximately 42,328 km2 and 38,884 km2 and the areas that have no SUHI effects from the annual cycle of land surface temperatures (LSTs) retrieved from Terra and Aqua satellites. Defining SUHI as an anomaly on background condition, random forest (RF) models were further adopted to fit the LSTs in the areas without the SUHI effects and estimate the LST background and SUHI intensity at each grid point in the SUHI zone. The RF models performed well in fitting rural LSTs with a simulation error of approximately 0.31 \u00b0C\/0.44 \u00b0C for Terra\/Aqua satellite data and showed a good generalization ability in estimating the urban LST background. The RF-estimated daytime Aqua\/SUHI intensity peaked at approximately 6.20 \u00b0C in August, and the Terra\/SUHI intensity had two peaks of approximately 3.18 and 3.81 \u00b0C in May and August, with summertime RF-estimated SUHIs being more reliable than other SUHI types owing to the smaller simulation error of less than 1.0 \u00b0C in July\u2013September. This machine-learning-assisted solution identified an optimal SUHI scale of 30,636 km2 and a zone of approximately 23,631 km2 that is vulnerable to SUHIs, and it provided the SUHI intensity and statistical reliability for each grid point identified as being part of the SUHI. Urban planners and decision-makers can focus on the statistically reliable RF-estimated summertime intensities in SUHI zones that have an LST annual cycle similar to that of large cities in developing effective strategies for mitigating adverse SUHI effects. In addition, the selection of large cities might strongly affect the accuracy of identifying the SUHI zone, which is defined as the areas that have an LST annual cycle similar to large cities. 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