Spain registered nearly 4,500 heat-related deaths from June 1 to August 19, the highest amount during this period since 2022, according to figures from the public Carlos III Health Institute consulted by AFP Thursday.<\/p>\n
By comparison, 3,073 heat-related deaths were recorded during the same period last year and 1,890 in 2024.<\/p>\n
The number of heat-related deaths in Spain between June 1 and August 19 hit 4,458, the highest level since 2022 when there were 4,520 heat-related deaths during this time.<\/p>\n
The figures were estimated using data from Spain\u2019s Mortality Monitoring System (MoMo), which tracks daily mortality nationwide and compares it to historical trends.<\/p>\n
It also incorporates external factors, such as weather data from the national meteorological agency AEMET, to assess likely causes of mortality spikes.<\/p>\n
Although MoMo cannot confirm a direct cause between deaths and high temperatures, it provides the most reliable estimate of fatalities in which heat was likely a decisive factor.<\/p>\n
Most heat-related excess deaths are due to heart attacks and strokes caused by the strain of trying to keep body temperatures stable.<\/p>\n
Like its European neighbours, Spain has suffered several spells of extreme summer heat this year, contributing to ideal conditions for a string of wildfires.<\/p>\n
July was mainland Spain\u2019s joint-hottest month since records began in 1961, according to AEMET. It was also mainland Spain\u2019s driest July on record.<\/p>\n
The country experienced some of its worst wildfires in living memory in July, which forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain registered nearly 4,500 heat-related deaths from June 1 to August 19, the highest amount during this period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1150,6380,17],"class_list":["post-73230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-international","tag-mna","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}