Climate change in Chico, California
Climate change is affecting locations like Chico in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include potentially hazardous atmospheric rivers, more frequent fire weather, and more frequent weather-related power outages.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Chico are at risk in a warming world.
Chico's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Chico in summer
Warmer and wetter atmospheric rivers
Warming boosts moisture, making storms wetter, stronger, and costlier.
More record heat
Daily heat records have outnumbered daily cold records in recent years.
More fire weather
Wildfire seasons are lengthening and intensifying.
More weather-related power outages
Extreme weather events put stress on aging energy infrastructure.
Worsening drought
Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought
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