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    Climate change in Norfolk, Virginia

    Climate change is affecting locations like Norfolk in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include heavier rain and greater health risks from humid heat.

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


    Norfolk's climate threats in include:

    Explore some ways climate change is affecting Norfolk in summer

    Threats to coastal wetlands

    Sea level rise threatens wetlands.

    Heavier rainfall rates

    Heavier rain threatens people, ecosystems, and infrastructure nationwide.

    More record heat

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

    More dangerous heat

    Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.

    More graphics about Norfolk and climate change

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

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