Several counties across the Bay Area will experience more extreme heat days in the future. See your county and zip code projections with our interactive graphics.
affects all of us, new projections are highlighting the increasing stress on workers who do their jobs outdoors - and several Bay Area counties are going to be especially vulnerable in the coming decades.The ABC7 data journalism team analyzed data from the First Street Foundation, a nonprofit science and research group that studies climate risk data. It found the average U.S. county will see 13 more days per year with a heat index of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
"Maybe we'll take a sooner break or we'll even do the majority of the hard labor tasks and jobs more towards the beginning of the shift," Dominguez said. According to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, in California, there were 16.6 heat-related ER visits per 100,000 people in 2019.Dr. Cecilia Sorensen, the director of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University, agrees that outdoor workers are more at risk for heat-related issues on the job.
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