"Nearly one third of all Americans live in a county that experienced a weather disaster this summer, according to an analysis from The Washington Post.
Over 32 percent of Americans lived in a county or state declared a disaster area by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), according to the analysis of federal disaster declarations. The publication also found that 64 percent of Americans live in an area that experienced a multiday heat wave over the past months.
The share of Americans living in a weather-disaster-afflicted county or state has increased steadily since 2018, when it was only 5 percent.
Nearly 200 people in Washington and Oregon died. In July, heat waves hit elsewhere in the West, where Death Valley experienced the hottest temperature in recorded history. July ended up being the hottest month in Earth’s recorded history."
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