Climate change in California
Climate change is affecting locations like California in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include more frequent fire weather, greater health risks from humid heat, and drought.
Explore these pages to learn how people in California are at risk in a warming world.
California's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting California in summer
More fire weather
Wildfire seasons are lengthening and intensifying.
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
Worsening drought
Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought
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