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Table 2 County-level mean temperature and number of heatwave days per year, by state 1991–2017

From: Acute association between heatwaves and stillbirth in six US states

 

California

Florida

Georgia

Kansas

New Jersey

Oregon

Mean temperature (°C)

14.45 (7.4)

21.57 (6.1)

17.67 (7.9)

12.76 (10.7)

11.95 (9.5)

9.52 (7.2)

97.5th percentile (°C)

25.80 (3.3)

29.05 (0.2)

28.47 (1.0)

29.14 (0.7)

26.84 (0.8)

22.26 (1.7)

HW1

  1 day

11.08 (7.3)

9.94 (7.5)

7.91 (6.8)

8.99 (6.2)

11.41 (6.9)

10.8 (7.4)

  2 days

8.19 (5.8)

6.12 (5.8)

6.56 (6.1)

6.2 (5.0)

7.38 (6.3)

7.83 (5.5)

  3 + days

10.91 (8.0)

10.06 (12.7)

10.79 (12.3)

10.24 (10.6)

8.86 (8.2)

9.53 (7.8)

HW2

  ≥ 2 days

18.57 (10.7)

15.4 (15.9)

16.44 (15.3)

15.20 (12.8)

15.04 (12.1)

16.93 (10.8)

  ≥ 3 days

10.26 (7.7)

8.55 (11.1)

9.23 (10.8)

8.35 (9.3)

7.45 (7.1)

8.73 (7.2)

  ≥ 4 days

5.28 (5.3)

4.64 (7.3)

4.85 (7.0)

4.47 (6.4)

3.48 (4.2)

4.29 (4.6)

HW3a

  Days over 0

4.70 (5.1)

5.07 (7.8)

5.82 (8.1)

4.31 (7.2)

3.43 (4.2)

4.11 (4.7)

  Meanb (°C)

0.88 (0.8)

0.36 (0.3)

0.51 (0.4)

0.81 (0.7)

0.77 (0.6)

0.88 (0.7)

  1. Values represent Mean(SD) across counties, within each state
  2. a HW3 is the average temperature over the 97.5th percentile during the exposure window, if the value is negative it is set to 0
  3. b Mean HW3 value for days where the HW3 > 0