6 Arizona counties may be uninhabitable in next 30 years due to climate change, study shows
by Hunter Bassler | 12News
Six of Arizona’s counties are at risk of being uninhabitable in the near future due to climate change, a ProPublica and Rhodium Group study found.
The study predicted which counties in the U.S. would face climate change issues to the point of having an uninhabitable climate for humans in the next 20 to 40 years by combining multiple metrics.
The Arizona counties listed, which included Pinal, Graham, Cochise, Mohave, Yuma and Maricopa, were among the top 100 most at-risk counties in the United States. For context, there are 3,700 counties in the nation.
The study’s findings listed Pinal County in Arizona as the second most at-risk county in the United States of being uninhabitable.
