Extreme Heat Alerts Span Over 200 Million Americans As A Massive Heat Dome Builds Over The US. Yet The Country Still Lacks A Federal Framework To Treat Heat As A Disaster.
- Posted on July 3, 2026
- By International Business Times
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Extreme Heat Alerts Span Over 200 Million Americans As A Massive Heat Dome Builds Over The US. Yet The Country Still Lacks A Federal Framework To Treat Heat As A Disaster.
Extreme heat deaths in the United States have nearly doubled since 1999, with 2,394 Americans killed in 2024 — yet federal disaster law has never declared extreme heat a major disaster, leaving FEMA unable to deploy its full toolkit even as a Fourth of July heat dome places 200 million under alerts
