The temperature in Phoenix is forecast to top 110F this week for the first time this summer, posing a danger for the unhoused
with 662 people dying in Maricopa county, which includes Phoenix, in the past two years.
Phoenix’s highest-ever recorded temperature was 122F in June 1996. Such extremes are rare, but it did meet that record in June 2017.Nighttime temperatures have risen twice as fast as daytime highs over the past three decades, according to NWS data. The impact of heat is cumulative and the body only begins to recover when temperatures drop below 80F.
It’s a matter of life and death for the city’s growing unsheltered population, who have accounted for almost half the county’s extreme heat deaths in recent years. Fentanyl addiction is rising and substance use contributed to three out of every five heat deaths in 2021.
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