Climate change in Yakima, Washington
Climate change is affecting locations like Yakima in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include more frequent fire weather, more mosquito days, and more frequent and intense extreme heat.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Yakima are at risk in a warming world.
Yakima's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Yakima in summer
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 hot summer days
Hotter summers increase heat illness and worsen air quality.
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