Climate change in Louisiana
Climate change is affecting locations like Louisiana in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include more intense hurricanes, greater health risks from humid heat, and more coastal flooding.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Louisiana are at risk in a warming world.
Louisiana's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Louisiana in summer
More intense hurricanes
Warmer oceans from climate change fuel stronger hurricanes.
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
More coastal flooding
In the U.S., coastal floods now happen three times more often than they did 30 years ago.
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