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    Climate change in Los Angeles, California

    Climate change is affecting locations like Los Angeles in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include potentially hazardous atmospheric rivers, more frequent fire weather, and more mosquito days.

    Explore these pages to learn how people in Los Angeles are at risk in a warming world.

    Los Angeles' climate threats in include:

    Explore some ways climate change is affecting Los Angeles in summer

    Warmer and wetter atmospheric rivers

    Warming boosts moisture, making storms wetter, stronger, and costlier.

    More record heat

    Daily heat records have outnumbered daily cold records in recent years.

    More fire weather

    Wildfire seasons are lengthening and intensifying.

    More mosquito days

    Mosquitoes thrive in warm and humid conditions that are becoming more frequent

    More weather-related power outages

    Extreme weather events put stress on aging energy infrastructure.

    Worsening drought

    Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought

    More graphics about Los Angeles and climate change

    Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Los Angeles, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.

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