LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Clark County Coroner’s workplace reported Thursday 114 heat-related deaths in 2025, thus far.
Clark County experiences 87 heat-related deaths in 2025
The report is just not last as 90% of instances take as much as 90 days to research the trigger and method of dying, the county stated.
The county additionally stated sure drug classifications make individuals extra prone to succumbing to the warmth, together with using sure medicine, together with fentanyl.
Along with using medicine, different contributing elements in warmth deaths can embrace sicknesses and medical circumstances similar to heart problems in addition to behaviors similar to bodily exertion, inappropriate clothes, lack of acclimatization and poor fluid consumption.
Warmth was an element within the deaths of 527 individuals in 2024, in accordance with the county.
