Extreme Heat
Heat-related deaths and illnesses are preventable. Despite this fact, more than 600 people in the United States are killed by extreme heat every year. This website provides helpful tips, information, and resources to help you stay safe in the extreme heat this summer. Learn more about extreme heat.
Protecting Vulnerable Groups from Extreme Heat
Resources for Health Professionals
- Climate-Ready States and Cities Initiative (CRSCI) Extreme Heat Adaptation StoryMapexternal icon
- Climate Change and Extreme Heat: What You Can Do to Prepare pdf icon[PDF- 8.64 MB]
- Environmental Public Health Tracking – Heat Stress Illness
- Extreme Heat Bibliography
- Heat Stress in the Workplace (NIOSH)
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR)
- National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS)external icon
- Preparing for and Responding to Extreme Heat and Cold Events
- Temperature Extremes- Climate and Health
Related Links
American Red Cross – Heatexternal icon
National Weather Service Heat Indexexternal icon
National Weather Service – Heat Safety Tips and Resourcesexternal icon
City of Boston (MA) Public Health Commission fact sheets on heat for individuals with disabilities and chronic illness and othersexternal icon (multiple languages)
Page last reviewed: September 25, 2020