Extreme Heat by the Numbers

This summer has been blistering hot, and we are reminded of the following extreme heat statistics:

• 600–1,800: number of deaths per year in the US from extreme heat, highest of any weather hazard

• 115: Fahrenheit temperature of hottest day of 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona

• 108: number of US metropolitan areas in which a 2020 study found that historically disadvantaged communities faced hotter temperatures than others

• 13: Fahrenheit temperature difference between some disadvantaged neighborhoods and other neighborhoods

Extreme heat may not make front-page news or be counted in billion-dollar disaster totals, but these statistics show policy makers and practitioners ignore it at their peril.

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