An Approach to Developing Local Climate Change Environmental Public Health Indicators in a Rural District

Table 3

Extreme heat exposure in Green River District County (2000–2012): days with maximum temperatures greater than or equal to 95 degrees from May to September.

Years	Extreme heat exposure	Counties affected
2000	8/28/00–8/30/00	Union, Webster
2001	No dates met exposure definition
2002	8/02/02–8/04/02	Union
	9/07/02–9/10/02	Henderson, Union, and Webster
2003	No dates met exposure definition
2004	No dates met exposure definition
2005	7/24/05–7/26/05	Union
	8/09/05–8/14/05	Henderson, McLean, Union, and Webster
2006	7/18/06–7/21/06	Union
	7/30/06–8/03/06	Union, Webster
	8/06/06–8/10/06	Union
2007	7/31/07–8/24/07	All counties
	8/27/07–8/29/	Henderson, McLean, Union, and Webster
	9/02/07–9/05/	Daviess, Henderson, McLean, Union, and Webster
2008	No dates met exposure definition
2009	No dates met exposure definition
2010	7/23/10–7/25/; 8/01/10–8/04/10; 8/08/10–8/15/10; 8/19/10–8/22/10; 8/31/10–9/02/10; 9/19/10–9/23/10	Hancock; All counties; All counties; All counties; All counties; All counties
2011	8/31/11–9/03/11	All counties
2012	6/18/12–6/21/12	Henderson, McLean, Union, and Webster
	6/23/12–6/25/12	Henderson, McLean, and Webster
	6/27/12–7/10/12	All counties
	7/15/12–8/09/12	All counties
	8/23/12–8/25/	Daviess, Henderson, McLean, Union, and Webster
	8/28/12–8/31/	All counties

Notes.
other counties reached threshold for 2 days.
County reached one-degree shy-of-threshold on 8/29/12.
Source. National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, http://ephtracking.cdc.gov/.