Climate change in Houston, Texas
Climate change is affecting locations like Houston in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include increased health risks from extreme heat, more intense hurricanes, and greater health risks from humid heat.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Houston are at risk in a warming world.
Houston's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Houston in summer
Threats to coastal wetlands
Sea level rise threatens wetlands.
More risks for pregnancy
Climate change has doubled pregnancy heat-risk days worldwide (2020-2024).
More record heat
Daily heat records have outnumbered daily cold records in recent years.
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 graphics about Houston and climate change
Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Houston, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.
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