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While the number of heat-related deaths fluctuated year to year, there was a sharp uptick in the last seven years. ... According to the data, heat-related deaths increased by 16.8% per year from ...
A new study on heat-related deaths in the U.S. between the years 1999 and 2023 found that last year — the hottest year on record — had the most number of deaths in which heat was cited as an ...
An important indicator is age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 people. That heat-related death rate has increased dramatically compared to the early 2000s, regardless of age or population size.
The heat-related death rate in the U.S. (heat being either an underlying or a contributing cause) has increased since the mid 2010s. [4]Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of death) generally hovered around 0.5 to 1 deaths per million people, with spikes in certain years.
This sobering statistic underscores a 117 percent surge in heat-related deaths since 1999, with over 20,000 lives claimed by blistering temperatures over the past two decades.
Heat stroke results in more than 600 deaths a year in the United States. [4] Rates increased between 1995 and 2015. [3] Purely exercise-induced heat stroke, though a medical emergency, tends to be self-limiting (the patient stops exercising from cramp or exhaustion) and fewer than 5% of cases are fatal.
A 2016 U.S. government report said that climate change could result in "tens of thousands of additional premature deaths per year across the United States by the end of this century." [ 23 ] Indeed, between 2014 and 2017, heat exposure deaths tripled in Arizona (76 deaths in 2014; 235 deaths in 2017) and increased fivefold in Nevada (29 deaths ...
There have been 97 more heat-associated deaths in Maricopa County in 2023 than in 2022. Here's what to know as hot weather season wraps up.