Meanwhile, in the southern Clark Count of Nevada, the Forensic Office announced last week that 29 deaths related to heat in what are going this year, compared to the same time in 2024. Clark County includes the city of Las Vegas, which is one of the fastest cities in the country, according to a study published this year by the organization not full clite Cliem Cliem.
The county registered his first death related to heat by 2025 on May 9, weeks before his first confirmed Heat death related to heat at the end of May 2024. Last year was particularly deadly for southern Nevada, with 527 deaths related to heat, according to the Forensic of Clark County and the office of the Forensic Doctor.
The summer of 2024 was the most popular in southern Nevada in registered history, according to the National Meteorological Service. Las Vegas recorded a new record temperature of 120 degrees Fahrenheit last July, and lasted more than 100 days of triple digits temperatures.
Near, in Maricopa de Arizona County, 15 Heat -related deaths have been recorded as of July 19. This early figure follows the 23 confirmed deaths registered before July 19, 2024, although public health records indicate that 299 deaths this year are still under investigation.
In May, the Department of Public Health of Maricopa County said that last year, at least one death related to heat occurred every day in Maricopa County from June 18 to July 31.
In 2024, which was the hottest year recorded for the county, the authorities confirmed 602 deaths related to heat, below a record of 645 deaths related to heat in 2023. That marked the first decrease in fags in heat deaths in a decade.
Local officials launched several new initiatives aimed at keeping people fresh and safe during the summer, including trees planting to increase shade in public spaces and resurface pavements with more reflective surfaces in certain areas to combat urban heat.
“For many people, heat is an inconvenience, but for others, it is a matter of life and death.” said Ariel Charedard, scientist at the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas and head of the Nevada Heat Laboratory.
Certain people have more risk than others, such as older people, people with chronic health conditions or young children who may not be able to articulate how they feel, he said.
Exposure to extreme heat also tends to disproportionately affect low -income communities, according to Charedard. While all in a city like Las Vegas are exposed to high summer temperatures, how people experience that heat depends on whether they have stable homes, if they depend on public transport or if they have access and can pay the air conditioning.
A study published in August 2024 in JAMA magazine found that from 1999 to 2023, there were 21,518 deaths related to heat in the United States. The investigation tracked these deaths every year and discovered that heat -related mortality rates have increased in the last two decades, and particularly in the last seven years.
