diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/data-map/DataMap.tsx b/frontend/src/lib/data-map/DataMap.tsx
index f5ccf25..4a86016 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/data-map/DataMap.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/data-map/DataMap.tsx
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 import type { MapboxOverlay } from '@deck.gl/mapbox/typed';
 import { useMap } from 'react-map-gl/maplibre';
-import { FC, useMemo, useRef } from 'react';
+import { FC, useRef } from 'react';
 
 import { useInteractions } from 'lib/state/interactions/use-interactions';
-import { useTriggerMemo } from 'lib/hooks/use-trigger-memo';
 import { useDataLoadTrigger } from 'lib/data-map/use-data-load-trigger';
 import { InteractionGroupConfig } from 'lib/data-map/types';
 import { DeckGLOverlay } from 'lib/map/DeckGLOverlay';
@@ -40,13 +39,9 @@ function buildLayers(
 }
 
 function useTrigger(viewLayers: ViewLayer[]) {
-  const dataLoaders = useMemo(
-    () =>
-      viewLayers
-        .map((vl) => vl.dataAccessFn?.(vl.styleParams?.colorMap?.fieldSpec)?.dataLoader)
-        .filter(Boolean),
-    [viewLayers],
-  );
+  const dataLoaders = viewLayers
+    .map((vl) => vl.dataAccessFn?.(vl.styleParams?.colorMap?.fieldSpec)?.dataLoader)
+    .filter(Boolean);
 
   return useDataLoadTrigger(dataLoaders);
 }
@@ -61,7 +56,7 @@ export const DataMap: FC<{
   const { current: map } = useMap();
   const zoom = map.getMap().getZoom();
 
-  const dataLoadTrigger = useTrigger(viewLayers);
+  useTrigger(viewLayers);
 
   const { onHover, onClick, layerFilter, pickingRadius } = useInteractions(
     viewLayers,
@@ -69,11 +64,7 @@ export const DataMap: FC<{
     interactionGroups,
   );
 
-  const layers = useTriggerMemo(
-    () => buildLayers(viewLayers, viewLayersParams, zoom, firstLabelId),
-    [viewLayers, viewLayersParams, zoom, firstLabelId],
-    dataLoadTrigger,
-  );
+  const layers = buildLayers(viewLayers, viewLayersParams, zoom, firstLabelId);
 
   return (
     <DeckGLOverlay
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/data-map/use-data-load-trigger.ts b/frontend/src/lib/data-map/use-data-load-trigger.ts
index 1ea34c5..b9f0032 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/data-map/use-data-load-trigger.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/data-map/use-data-load-trigger.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 import difference from 'lodash/difference';
-import { useEffect } from 'react';
+import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 
 import { DataLoader } from '../data-loader/data-loader';
 import { usePrevious } from '../hooks/use-previous';
-import { useTrackingRef } from '../hooks/use-tracking-ref';
-import { useTrigger } from '../hooks/use-trigger';
+
+const DEFAULT_LOADERS: DataLoader<any>[] = [];
 
 /**
  * Based on a list of data loaders extracted from view layers,
@@ -12,35 +12,36 @@ import { useTrigger } from '../hooks/use-trigger';
  *
  */
 export function useDataLoadTrigger(dataLoaders: DataLoader<any>[]) {
-  const [dataLoadTrigger, doTriggerDataUpdate] = useTrigger();
-
-  const previousLoaders = usePrevious(dataLoaders);
+  const [trigger, setTrigger] = useState(0);
+  const previousLoaders = usePrevious(dataLoaders) ?? DEFAULT_LOADERS;
+  const removedLoaders = difference(previousLoaders, dataLoaders);
+  const addedLoaders = difference(dataLoaders, previousLoaders);
 
   useEffect(() => {
+    function incrementTrigger() {
+      setTrigger((trigger) => trigger + 1);
+    }
     // destroy removed data loaders to free up memory
-    const removedLoaders = difference(previousLoaders ?? [], dataLoaders);
     removedLoaders.forEach((dl) => dl.destroy());
 
-    // subscribe to new data loaders to get notified when data is loaded
-    const addedLoaders = difference(dataLoaders, previousLoaders ?? []);
-    addedLoaders.forEach((dl) => dl.subscribe(doTriggerDataUpdate));
+    // subscribe to new data loaders to trigger an update to the data map when data is loaded
+    addedLoaders.forEach((dl) => dl.subscribe(incrementTrigger));
 
     // if there was a change in data loaders, trigger an update to the data map
     if (addedLoaders.length > 0 || removedLoaders.length > 0) {
-      doTriggerDataUpdate();
+      incrementTrigger();
     }
-  }, [dataLoaders, previousLoaders, doTriggerDataUpdate]);
+  }, [addedLoaders, removedLoaders]);
 
   /* store current value of dataLoaders so that we can clean up data on component unmount
    * this is necessary because we don't want to keep the data loaders around after the component is unmounted
    */
-  const currentLoadersRef = useTrackingRef(dataLoaders);
   useEffect(() => {
     return () => {
       // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
-      currentLoadersRef.current?.forEach((dl) => dl.destroy());
+      previousLoaders?.forEach((dl) => dl.destroy());
     };
-  }, [currentLoadersRef]);
+  }, []);
 
-  return dataLoadTrigger;
+  return trigger;
 }