Climate change in Mississippi
Climate change is affecting locations like Mississippi in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include more intense hurricanes, greater health risks from humid heat, and more coastal flooding.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Mississippi are at risk in a warming world.
Mississippi's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Mississippi in summer
More intense hurricanes
Warmer oceans from climate change fuel stronger hurricanes.
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
More coastal flooding
In the U.S., coastal floods now happen three times more often than they did 30 years ago.
More graphics about Mississippi and climate change
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