Climate change in Sioux City, Iowa
Climate change is affecting locations like Sioux City in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include drought that affects agriculture, more mosquito days, and greater health risks from humid heat.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Sioux City are at risk in a warming world.
Sioux City's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Sioux City in summer
Stress to crops
Drought worsens crop damages from heat, and drier heat waves may cut global corn and soybean yields.
More mosquito days
Mosquitoes thrive in warm and humid conditions that are becoming more frequent
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
Hotter summers
Hotter summers bring more dangerous heat, higher energy bills, and worse wildfire.
More graphics about Sioux City and climate change
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