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    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.

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