Climate change in Fort Smith, Arkansas
Climate change is affecting locations like Fort Smith in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include more extreme rainfall, more mosquito days, and greater health risks from humid heat.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Fort Smith are at risk in a warming world.
Fort Smith's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Fort Smith in summer
Heavier downpours
Climate change is supercharging the water cycle, driving heavier rainfall and flood risk.
More record heat
Daily heat records have outnumbered daily cold records in recent years.
More mosquito days
Mosquitoes thrive in warm and humid conditions that are becoming more frequent
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
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