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US heat risk forecast: See where Americans are at the most risk for | |
extreme heat this year | |
By Matt Stiles and Byron Manley, CNN | |
Updated: | |
1:39 PM EDT, Wed July 2, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
High temperatures affect public health across wide swaths of the United | |
States each summer, causing spikes in emergency room visits and . As | |
temperatures rise, CNN is tracking extreme heat conditions and the | |
potential risk for Americans each day. | |
To help prepare Americans for the dangerous temperatures, the National | |
Weather Service and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
has a national forecast predicting heat-related risks. | |
It considers the severity and unusualness of forecast heat and its | |
potential duration, while also factoring the likely impact on residents | |
in specific locations based on CDC data for past effects, such as | |
deaths. | |
This map shows the latest forecast. | |
The National Weather Service also produces multi-day apparent | |
temperature , which take into account other factors such as wind and | |
humidity to help explain what it “feels like” outside. | |
This map, updated each morning, shows that forecast across the | |
contiguous US for the next three days: | |
CNN also uses this national forecast map to derive “feels like” | |
temperature predictions in more than 800 US cities with a population | |
greater than 50,000 residents. Search it here: | |
A large slice of the American population lives in places that will be | |
subject to heat advisories, warnings and watches from National Weather | |
Service this year. More than 60 million people, on average, endured | |
such conditions during summer 2023, according to . | |
As the planet warms, heat waves are now more common, intense and | |
long-lasting, and temperatures — not cooling down enough to offer | |
relief. | |
As those temperatures rise, heat records will also fall. | |
The weather service each day releases a forecast for potential | |
record-breaking temperatures, by location, across the country. Here are | |
places where high temperature records could be broken over the next | |
three days. | |
Forecasters from the National Weather Service also average temperatures | |
across regions of the country over the coming weeks. This map shows the | |
chance that areas of the continental United States will be above, below | |
or near normal average temperatures. | |
Darker shades represent areas where the average temperature has an | |
increased chance of being warmer or cooler than usual. Gray areas are | |
expected to be near normal. | |
Predictions often hold true, breaking daily high temperature records. | |
This map highlights locations across the continental United States | |
where temperatures exceeded calendar day records, according to the . | |
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