Climate change in Salt Lake City, Utah
Climate change is affecting locations like Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City are at risk in a warming world.
Salt Lake City's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Salt Lake City 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.
Hotter summers
Hotter summers bring more dangerous heat, higher energy bills, and worse wildfire.
More graphics about Salt Lake City and climate change
Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Salt Lake City, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.