During the summer of 2022, there were 61,762 heat-related deaths recorded on the European continent. Of these deaths, almost half were recorded in just two southern European countries, Italy and Spain. Italy had the unfortunate position of being both the country with the greatest absolute number of heat-related deaths, as well as being the country with the most in relation to the size of its population. Heat deaths are an increasingly salient issue during summers in Europe, as climate change is causing an increase in the average temperature on the continent as well as an increase in the number of days where extreme heat (>40 degrees Celsius) is recorded.

Number of heat related deaths, by place of injury, reported by Maricopa County Public Health Department during heat seasons 2023 and 2024. Heat season is generally identified as May-October. Unless otherwise specified in the column metadata, counts include only injury locations occurring within the city boundary and excludes injury locations in unincorporated county islands. Counts are sourced from county Public Health Department. See column metadata for more details. The "Total-All" column includes individuals whose injuries occurred in areas known as unincorporated county islands—these are neighborhoods or communities that are not officially part of any city, even though they may appear to be within city boundaries.

Because death certificates listed the nearest city as the place of injury, some of these deaths may be recorded under a city name even if they technically happened outside that city’s jurisdiction.

This dataset reports the number of heat-related deaths by location of injury, as recorded by the Maricopa County Public Health Department during the 2023 and 2024 heat seasons (typically May through October).

Unless otherwise noted in the column metadata, counts reflect injuries that occurred within official city boundaries and exclude incidents in unincorporated county islands—areas not formally part of any city.

The "Total-All" column includes deaths from both city areas and unincorporated county islands, where the death certificate listed Mesa as place of initial injury. These islands are neighborhoods that may appear to be inside a city but are not under city jurisdiction.

See also Public Health Heat Related Deaths Dashboard. Zip code centroids sourced from Mesa Zip Codes.

As climate change causes average temperatures to rise across the European continent, this will inevitably lead to an increasing number of heat-related deaths, or deaths as a result of excess exposure to high temperatures. This is particularly an issue for southern European countries, such as Italy, Greece, Spain, and Portugal, who are already experiencing a massive uptick in the number of extreme heat days per year, with temperatures often exceeding 40 degrees Celsius in these countries during the Summer. In the Summer of 2022, Italy recorded 295 heat deaths per million inhabitants, resulting in a total of over 18,000 people dying due to excess heat exposure. Europe-wide, this rate was 114 heat deaths per million inhabitants.

Information about heat-related deaths provided by County Public Health Department's annual Heat Surveillance Reports and includes total counts for selected cities in Maricopa County, including Mesa. Rate per 100K population based on US Census Quick Facts by city and year. Beginning in 2024, counts are geocoded by jurisdiction and excludes cases in unincorporated county islands. Counts prior to 2024 are based on name of city listed on the death certificate and includes cases occurring in county islands.

Table contains count of heat-related deaths among county residents. Heat-related deaths are summarized to include those occurred during May to September months of a year. Data are masked when the number of events is 1 to 10. Source: Santa Clara County Public Health Department, Vital Records Business Intelligence System, 2011-2020. Data as of 7/1/2021METADATA:notes (String): Lists table title, notes, sourcesyear (String): Year of deathcount (Numeric): Number of heat-related deaths

In 2021, no deaths were caused due to heat waves in India. This was a significant decrease from the previous year's number of **. The highest number of deaths was recorded in 2015 when over ************ people died due to heat waves across the nation.

Heat stroke caused about *** deaths across India in 2022, almost double the number of deaths recorded in the previous year. During the period in consideration, the highest number of deaths due to heat stroke occurred in 2015.

Filtered view that returns the most recent row of data. Data is used in display banner on the Heat Related Incidents dashboard.

This dataset provides a summary of heat-related deaths in Mesa, Arizona, for the calendar years 2020 through 2023. The data originates from reports by the County Public Health Department and has been enhanced by the City of Mesa to include geographic details such as census tract boundaries and central coordinates (centroids). AC Status grouped by Mesa based on AC Status - County values. See also 2020-2023 Heat Related Deaths and Demographics which includes additional victim demographic totals by zip code.

This dataset consists of the number of deaths due to heatwaves reported by different agencies/organizations. These are listed below: 1. MoSPI or MoES: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) published data on heat wave deaths in its annual Envistats report until 2021. Since 2022, the data has been collated from the Ministry of Earth Sciences since in the Envistats report, the source is mentioned as the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences. 2. National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA): The data reported by this organization in some of its reports and workshop content has been collated. Values shared by Ministry of Health in the Parliament , which started recording the figures since 2015, is same as this until 2022. 3. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 4. National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)'s Accidental Deaths and Suicides India report: Data on heat stroke deaths reported by police departments at state level is presented in the report, which has been collated in the dataset. 5. IMD: Data on heatwave deaths reported by the IMD in its annual reports has been collated separately since the figures are slightly different from that reported by MoSPI/MoES.

Even though heat-related deaths are preventable, extreme heat events have been associated with sudden, short-term increases in mortality, especially among older adults, those who are chronically ill and socially disadvantaged people. This guidebook informs how to prevent deaths in the community caused by heat waves.

This reports discusses heat and mortality in Miami-Dade County. This report found some evidence that “everyday” summer heat exposures proportionately increased the risk of a heat related death. The analysis suggests ~171 deaths (34 deaths per year) were exacerbated by “everyday” extreme heat exposures.

During the 2021 heatwave in Oregon, most of the suspected heat-related deaths were of adults in the age group of 60 to 69 year-olds. 60 to 69 year-olds accounted for 37 percent of all deaths from hyperthermia. Oregon was among the states most affected by the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest, which occurred between late June and mid-July 2021, with temperatures breaking daily record highs.

This dataset consists of the number of deaths due to heatwaves reported by different agencies/organizations. These are listed below: 1. MoES: Ministry of Earth Sciences gives data on deaths due to extreme weather events every year, including deaths due to heatwaves. This data is available since 2010. For years lacking data, it suggests that no heat wave-related deaths occurred during that period. 2. National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)'s Accidental Deaths and Suicides India report: Data on heat stroke deaths reported by police departments at state level is presented in the report, which has been collated in the dataset. This data has been included in the dataset since 2013. 3. MoHFW: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare started recording the figures since 2015.

This dataset describes projected additional heat-related mortality by county for the years 2085 to 2095 relative to 1995-2005 under scenarios of climate and population change. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Morefield, P., N. Fann, A. Grambsch, W. Raich, and C. Weaver. Heat-Related Health Impacts under Scenarios of Climate and Population Change.. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, SWITZERLAND, 15(11): 2438, (2018).

Recent studies project that temperature-related mortality will be the largest source of future damage from climate change, with particular concern for the elderly (whom it is believed bear the largest heat-related mortality risk) and humid heat extremes (which physiology suggests may have dire consequences for human health). Here, we study heat and mortality in Mexico, a country that exhibits a unique combination of universal mortality microdata and among the most extreme humid heat exposures. By combining detailed measurements of wet-bulb temperature with granular, age-specific outcome data, we find that younger people are particularly vulnerable to heat while older people are particularly vulnerable to cold: those under 35 years old account for 75% of recent heat-related deaths and 87% of heat-related lost life years while those 50 and older account for 96% of cold-related deaths and 80% of cold-related lost life years. We develop high-resolution projections of humid heat and associat..., , , Climate projections for *Heat disproportionately kills young people: evidence from wet-bulb temperature in Mexico *(https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq3367)

This repo contains climate projections produced for the paper "Heat disproportionately kills young people: evidence from wet-bulb temperature in Mexico." Scripts and other data needed for replication can be found at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14182718.

The structure of the files in this repo follows the pattern:

_.pq

All files are parquet format, written using arrow v17.

Each file represents a time series of weather variables for each of Mexico's second-order administrative units (municipalities). Projections are made at the level of weather stations active during the study's historical data period and mapped to municipalities according to the methods described in the paper. The variables in each file are: date, scenario (GHG emissions ...

BackgroundAnthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have increased summer temperatures in Spain by nearly one degree Celsius on average between 1980 and 2015. However, little is known about the extent to which the association between heat and human mortality has been modified. We here investigate whether the observed warming has been associated with an upward trend in excess mortality attributable to heat or, on the contrary, a decrease in the vulnerability to heat has contributed to a reduction of the mortality burden.Methods and findingsWe analysed a dataset from 47 major cities in Spain for the summer months between 1980 and 2015, which included daily temperatures and 554,491 deaths from circulatory and respiratory causes, by sex. We applied standard quasi-Poisson regression models, controlling for seasonality and long-term trends, and estimated the temporal variation in heat-related mortality with time-varying distributed lag nonlinear models (DLNMs). Results pointed to a reduction in the relative risks of cause-specific and cause-sex mortality across the whole range of summer temperatures. These reductions in turn explained the observed downward trends in heat-attributable deaths, with the only exceptions of respiratory diseases for women and both sexes together. The heat-attributable deaths were consistently higher in women than in men for both circulatory and respiratory causes. The main limitation of our study is that we were not able to account for air pollution in the models because of data unavailability.ConclusionsDespite the summer warming observed in Spain between 1980 and 2015, the decline in the vulnerability of the population has contributed to a general downward trend in overall heat-attributable mortality. This reduction occurred in parallel with a decline in the vulnerability difference between men and women for circulatory and cardiorespiratory mortality. Despite these advances, the risk of death remained high for respiratory diseases, and particularly in women.

Heat-related mortality in US cities is expected to more than double by the mid-to-late 21st century. Rising heat exposure in cities is projected to result from: 1) climate forcings from changing global atmospheric composition; and 2) local land surface characteristics responsible for the urban heat island effect. The extent to which heat management strategies designed to lessen the urban heat island effect could offset future heat-related mortality remains unexplored in the literature. Using coupled global and regional climate models with a human health effects model, we estimate changes in the number of heat-related deaths in 2050 resulting from modifications to vegetative cover and surface albedo across three climatically and demographically diverse US metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Georgia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Phoenix, Arizona. Employing separate health impact functions for average warm season and heat wave conditions in 2050, we find combinations of vegetation and albedo enhancement to offset projected increases in heat-related mortality by 40 to 99% across the three metropolitan regions. These results demonstrate the potential for extensive land surface changes in cities to provide adaptive benefits to urban populations at risk for rising heat exposure with climate change.

From 2004 to 2018 in the United States, the highest number of heat-related deaths was among those aged 55 to 64 years of age. This statistic shows the number of heat-related deaths in the United States from 2004 to 2018, by age group.

Multnomah county was the most affected county in Oregon during the heatwave in 2021. Multnomah reported 72 suspected heat-related deaths as of July 7, 2021. Of these, 46 were formally declared hyperthermia. Marion county followed with the second highest figures, with 13 heat-related deaths. Oregon was among the states most affected by the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest from late June to mid-July 2021, with temperatures breaking daily record highs. Most of the heatwave-related deaths were of adults within the age group of 60 to 69 year-olds.