Average U.S. Heat Deaths 2018-2025
On average between 2018 and 2025, NPR estimates that some 9,000 deaths each year in the country are impacted by heat — more than five times higher than the official average over that same period.
A bar graph with three bars is labelled "Average U.S. Heat Deaths 2018-2025. The leftmost bar is labelled "CDC heat deaths" and reaches 1701, the middle bar is labelled "Scaled modeled heat deaths" and reaches 8988 and the rightmost bar is labelled "Difference (scaled - CDC)" and reaches 7287.
