Climate change in Baltimore, Maryland
Climate change is affecting locations like Baltimore in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include more mosquito days, greater health risks from humid heat, and more frequent and intense storms.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Baltimore are at risk in a warming world.
Baltimore's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Baltimore in summer
Threats to coastal wetlands
Sea level rise threatens wetlands.
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.
Changes in severe storms
Certain conditions favorable to thunderstorms and tornadoes are occurring more often
More coastal flooding
In the U.S., coastal floods now happen three times more often than they did 30 years ago.
More graphics about Baltimore and climate change
Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Baltimore, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.