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title: Excessive Heat — U.S. toll in 2025 (NOAA)
peril: Excessive Heat
year: 2025
source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database
sourceId: src:noaa:ncei:storm-events-database
---

# Excessive Heat — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **37 direct deaths**, **326 injuries**, and **no reported property damage** from Excessive Heat, across **36 states** (1,051 events). That is 5.9% of all recorded 2025 hazard deaths.

**How to read this:** one **volatile year** (a major event in another year changes it sharply) — NOT "the deadliest hazard in history." Deaths are NOAA **"direct" deaths only**; for heat this is the tip of the iceberg — most heat deaths are recorded as *indirect* and are excluded + widely undercounted, so the real toll is far higher. Damage is NOAA's reported estimate, not insured loss. This is the recorded past toll, **not a forecast of your risk** — for that, see the per-state/county risk profiles and the National Weather Service.

## Where excessive heat took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| NEVADA | 17 | — |
| ARIZONA | 14 | — |
| OREGON | 4 | — |
| NEW YORK | 1 | — |
| SOUTH CAROLINA | 1 | — |
| WEST VIRGINIA | 0 | — |
| DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | 0 | — |
| MARYLAND | 0 | — |
| VIRGINIA | 0 | — |
| NEW JERSEY | 0 | — |

RECORDED NOAA Storm Events figures. Not history, not your risk, not a forecast. Your exposure: `/property/states/<state>` and `/property/counties/<fips>`. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/

Structured data: `/property/hazards/excessive-heat.jsonld`