Heat-Proofing Communities with Resilience Planning and Mitigation

This session focused on incorporating extreme heat mitigation strategies in local planning to help protect communities and vulnerable populations from heatwaves, wildfires, and heat-related illnesses. Participants learned about the process and best practices of developing and integrating a sustainable and extreme heat mitigation strategy into existing policies. Speakers summarized their agencies’ work to develop extreme heat mitigation strategies and resources and discussed how communities can implement similar strategies.