Climate change in Las Vegas, Nevada
Climate change is affecting locations like Las Vegas in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include potentially hazardous atmospheric rivers, increased health risks from extreme heat, and more frequent fire weather.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Las Vegas are at risk in a warming world.
Las Vegas' climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Las Vegas in summer
Warmer and wetter atmospheric rivers
Warming boosts moisture, making storms wetter, stronger, and costlier.
More risks for pregnancy
Climate change has doubled pregnancy heat-risk days worldwide (2020-2024).
More record heat
Daily heat records have outnumbered daily cold records in recent years.
More fire weather
Wildfire seasons are lengthening and intensifying.
Worsening drought
Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought
More graphics about Las Vegas and climate change
Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Las Vegas, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.
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