Annual W.Va. Heat Deaths
WV's heat death data was suppressed by the CDC 5 out of the last 8 years. The CDC says suppression is done when there are very few cases causing low confident in rates derived from the data.
A split bars graph with three columns of bars is labelled "Annual W.Va. Heat Deaths." The leftmost column is labelled "CDC heat deaths" with eight rows labelled 2018 through 2025 and all but the last bar, 2025, has a zero value. Tthe middle column is labelled "Scaled modeled heat deaths" and has a range of values from 35.35 in the first row for 2018 and 54.99 in the last row for 2025. The third column is labelled "Difference (scaled - CDC)" with just three values of 49.1 in 2021, 23.57 in 2023 and 43.99 in 2025.
