Climate change in Sacramento, California
Climate change is affecting locations like Sacramento in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include potentially hazardous atmospheric rivers, more frequent fire weather, and hotter summers.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Sacramento are at risk in a warming world.
Sacramento's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Sacramento 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.
Hotter summers
Hotter summers bring more dangerous heat, higher energy bills, and worse wildfire.
More weather-related power outages
Extreme weather events put stress on aging energy infrastructure.
Worsening drought
Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought
More graphics about Sacramento and climate change
Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Sacramento, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.