Climate change in Dallas, Texas
Climate change is affecting locations like Dallas in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include increased health risks from extreme heat, more intense hurricanes, and greater health risks from humid heat.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Dallas are at risk in a warming world.
Dallas' climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Dallas in summer
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 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 hot summer days
Hotter summers increase heat illness and worsen air quality.
More graphics about Dallas and climate change
Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Dallas, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.