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Arizona Executive Order 2025-09: Protecting Arizonans from Heat Risk in the Workplace
May 22, 2025
Following back-to-back record breaking heat in 2023 and 2024, the Executive Department of Arizona under Governor Katie Hobbs issued Executive Order 2025-09 to address extreme heat as a recognized occupational hazard and require stronger workplace protections.
Related Organizations: State of Arizona
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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North Carolina Heat Action Plan Toolkit
April 2024
In April 2024, the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resilience (NCORR) published a toolkit on how to develop heat action plans to help local governments and community partners increase community resilience to extreme heat.
Related Organizations: North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency
Resource Category: Planning
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Arizona’s Extreme Heat Preparedness Plan
March 1, 2024
In March 2024, the State of Arizona published its Extreme Heat Preparedness Plan, recognizing the increasing impacts of extreme heat on the state, outlining how state agencies are preparing for heat events, and making recommendations for future actions to prepare for extreme heat. The plan builds on a 2023 executive order on extreme heat planning and preparedness.
Related Organizations: State of Arizona
Resource Category: Planning
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Extreme Heat Social and Behavioral Sciences Research
March 1, 2024
Published in 2024, the Extreme Heat Social and Behavioral Science Research study was developed for the National Weather Service (NWS) to inform how the agency messages to the public, particularly at-risk populations, about heat impacts on human health.
Related Organizations: National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Abt Associates
Authors or Affiliated Users: Joyce Coffee, Alexis St. Juliana
Resource Category: Education and Outreach
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Arizona Executive Order 2023-16: Extreme Heat Planning and Preparedness
August 11, 2023
Executive Order 2023-16, Extreme Heat Planning and Preparedness, was signed in 2023, requiring the development of a statewide plan to address and prepare for the increasing impacts of extreme heat in Arizona. The EO recognizes the worsening public health effects from heat events and establishes new requirements to improve planning and preparedness for extreme heat.
Related Organizations: State of Arizona
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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Planning for Urban Heat Resilience
April 2022
Planning Advisory Service Report 600 (PAS Report 600) of the American Planning Association, Planning for Urban Heat Resilience, was published in April 2022 to shed light on the growing and inequitable threat of heat and provide a plan for cities worldwide to increase urban heat resilience. It recommends that planners use existing regulatory tools and plans to manage and prepare for heat. The report also provides planners with background knowledge, frameworks, and a catalog of approaches to dealing with heat.
Related Organizations: American Planning Association (APA)
Resource Category: Planning
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Community-Informed Heat Relief: Policy Options for Addressing Urban Extreme Heat in High-Risk Communities
June 30, 2021
Extreme heat causes more deaths than any other weather-related hazard. Due to the legacy of racially discriminatory redlining practices and long-term lack of investment in their communities, people of color in urban areas are disproportionately exposed to high temperatures and suffer greater consequences. To help policymakers and communities address this public health threat, the Georgetown Climate Center is releasing Community-Informed Heat Relief: Policy Options for Addressing Urban Extreme Heat in High-Risk Communities to inform a new comprehensive heat plan currently being developed by the District of Columbia, and to serve as a resource for other cities impacted by urban extreme heat.
Author or Affiliated User: Katherine McCormick
Resource Category: Planning
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Extrema Paris Heat Map
Extrema Paris Heat Map: The EXTREMA Project—funded primarily by the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid of the European Commission—is a mobile application that alerts its users if there is a high health risk in a certain area due to extreme heat, and directs the user to the nearest cooling facility or installation. To determine this health risk, the application uses real-time data regarding temperature, humidity, and discomfiture for every square kilometer, which is updated every five minutes, and evaluates the risk to an individual user based on their personalized health information.
Resource Category: Data and tools
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Citizen Science: Mapping Urban Heat Islands in Richmond, Virginia
The urban heat island mapping project in Richmond, Virginia is a collaborative project that brings community members together to collect temperature variation data in order to design community-scale adaptation plans. Richmond is a highly populated city that has encountered increased urban heat island effect in recent years. While current technology such as satellites can provide city-scale urban heat data, a more detailed, block-by-block examination of temperature variation in each community has to be studied to understand which communities are most vulnerable to the extreme heat. "Citizen-scientists" were gathered to help measure temperatures in their own city, and related human activities or land use. The citizen-scientists included students from the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University; the Virginia Academy of Science; the City of Richmond’s Sustainability Office; and Groundwork RVA, a nonprofit focused on empowering local young people in the communities.
Related Organizations: City of Richmond, Virginia, Groundwork RVA
Resource Category: Monitoring and Reporting
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Million Trees Miami - Miami-Dade County, Florida
Miami-Dade County, Florida’s Million Trees Miami initiative aims to plant 1 million trees in lower-income communities with insufficient tree canopy in order to alleviate heat stress in the county. This initiative stems from the County’s 2006 Street Tree Master Plan, which set a goal to achieve 30% tree canopy in Miami-Dade by 2020. Neat Streets Miami, a multi-jurisdictional County Board, is working to implement this goal through the Million Trees Miami initiative. Through a 2016 Urban Tree Canopy Assessment, the County determined that lower-income areas, including predominantly African American and Hispanic neighborhoods, had significantly less tree canopy than their wealthier counterparts. As a result, the County is prioritizing tree planting in its most impoverished and low-canopy areas through initiatives such as the Street Tree Matching Grant. Increased tree canopy cover in communities provides many important adaptation benefits, including protection from flooding, urban heat island mitigation, and improved water and air quality.
Related Organizations: Miami-Dade County, Florida
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