Climate Impact Report – 7/17

July 17, 2024

Key Facts Of The Day 7/17

As of Wednesday, the Philadelphia region in Pennsylvania is expected to see severe storms that could bring wind damage, heavy rain, and large hail.
On Tuesday, a state of emergency was declared for all of New York after several intense storms wreaked havoc across the state within the past week.
On Tuesday, around 200 homes in Nashville, Illinois, were evacuated after emergency officials warned of a nearby dam on the verge of failing.
According to an estimate, Hurricane Beryl could have caused up to $6.3 billion in insured property damage during the storm’s rampage across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

As of Wednesday, 59 large active wildfires have burned 802,303 acres across AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, OR, UT, and WA. This year to date, 24,953 wildfires have burned 3,085,742 acres across the country.
In Alaska, 4 fires have burned 198,102 acres as of Wednesday.
In Arizona, 9 fires have burned 55,436 acres as of Wednesday.
In California, 13 fires have burned 105,325 acres as of Wednesday.
In Colorado, 3 fires have burned 3,138 acres as of Wednesday.
In New Mexico, 6 fires have burned 16,995 acres as of Wednesday.
In Oregon, 7 fires have burned 316,361 acres as of Wednesday.
In Washington, 3 fires have burned 21,294 acres as of Wednesday.
About 200 homes in a small rural community on the Hawaiian island of Kauai were evacuated due to a wind-swept wildfire.
- Electricity was also cut off to users on the west side of the island because of the fire.

Over the weekend, three hikers died in suspected heat-related cases at state and national parks in Utah.
Three hikers have died in the past month at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, where summer temperatures on exposed parts of the trails can exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
The air temperature in Death Valley reached at least 125 degrees Fahrenheit for nine consecutive days, July 4-12 — the park’s longest streak at or above that temperature since the early 1900s.
On Tuesday, Washington D.C. tied a record high of 104 degrees while surpassing the century mark for the third straight day, matching the longest such streak on record set in 1930 at the beginning of the Dust Bowl.
14 state attorney generals wrote to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support rules making extreme heat and wildfire smoke events eligible for major disaster declarations.