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Beyond The Forecast: LA County launches heat illness tracking dashboard
ByNiku Kazori
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 6:55PM
LOS ANGELES (KABC) –As Southern California enters the hottest stretch of the year, Los Angeles County has launched a new dashboard aimed at helping residents and <a href="https://healthylife7.com/new-roadmap-to-strengthen-local-public-health/" title="New Roadmap to Strengthen Local Public Health“>public health officials track the effects of extreme heat
The Heat-Related Illness and Mortality Dashboardis the first tool from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health designed to quantify the local impact of extreme heat through regularly updated data
“The most important thing for us is that people understand that high heat leads to illness, and it’s important to see how easily people can become ill and how many become ill,” Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said
According to county health officials, the dashboard will provide weekly updates on emergency room visits related to heat illness and monthly updates on heat-related deaths
“Once a month, we’ll be able to update the numbers to people who die, tragically, due to heat-related illnesses,” Ferrer said
The dashboard is intended to serve as a near real-time reng heat-related emergency room visits, it includes daily temperature information and identifies areas of the county experiencing the greatest impacts
Health officials said the tool also breaks down which populations are most affected by extreme heat, providing information that can help guide outreach efforts
“We work very closely with the Medical Examiner to make sure we’re capturing heat-related deaths, and we take that information and try to display it in a way for people that’s easy to understand and read,” Ferrer said
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