First Street US Extreme Heat Survey — Baby, It’s Hot Outside!
has some disturbing news. It finds that extreme heat events are expected to impact 8 million Americans in 2023. By 2053, however, 107 million Americans — nearly one third of the US population — are expected to be exposed to extreme heat events. That’s thirteen times as many people as next year.
“The First Street Foundation Extreme Heat Model was built using datasets from the US Federal Government, augmented with publicly available and third party data sources, and existing research and expertise on heat modeling. The model estimates localized heat risk at a 30-meter resolution across the United States today and 30 years into the future, creating a high- precision, climate-adjusted heat model that provides insights at a property level.
“When the atmospheric moisture content is high, the rate of evaporation from the body decreases. In other words, the human body feels warmer in humid conditions. The opposite is true when the relative humidity decreases because the rate of perspiration increases. The body actually feels cooler in arid conditions.
In other words, when high heat and high humidity combine, the human body is unable to cool itself effectively without the aid of fans or air conditioning. Those conditions can lead to heat stroke and other potentially life threatening ailments.
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