Climate Ready Missoula: Building Resiliency in Missoula County
Learn and engage with the county to help prepare and adapt our community for the impacts of climate change.
Whether it’s hotter, drier summers, longer wildfire seasons or milder winters, we’re already experiencing the impacts of climate change in Missoula County, and it’s time to prepare. In the spring of 2020, Missoula County, the City of Missoula and Climate Smart Missoula jointly adopted Climate Ready Missoula, a climate adaptation plan that identified goals and strategies to reduce Missoula’s vulnerability to climate change.
Feel free to visit the Climate Ready Missoula site and learn more about the science behind climate change, the impacts climate change has on our community, goals and strategies to reduce Missoula’s vulnerability to climate change, and how these will be implemented.
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Volunteers needed for 2025 Heat Watch Campaign
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Missoula County, the City of Missoula and Climate Smart Missoula are teaming up to launch a community-wide Heat Watch campaign, and community help is needed!
Volunteers are needed to collect temperature and humidity data during an upcoming heatwave this summer. The data gathered will be used to create detailed heat maps showing where extreme temperatures hit hardest in the County. This is crucial information that will help better support neighborhoods most vulnerable to extreme heat.
Projected Campaign Date: Saturday, July 19
Backup Date: Saturday, Aug. 2
Time Commitment: About 4 to 6 hours, including a short training session
Location: Routes will be assigned in or near your neighborhood, if possible
What Volunteers Will Do:
- Drive or navigate a pre-scheduled route for three one-hour time blocks
- Use a small, easy-to-operate sensor to collect heat and humidity data
- Attend a one-hour virtual training session before the campaign day
What You’ll Need (Drivers):
- Valid driver’s license
- Auto insurance
- Access to a vehicle
Ready to get involved? Fill out the volunteer interest form.
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Extreme Heat Toolkit
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One impact experts project will get worse is summer heat, so this summer, the Missoula County Climate Action team is hosting an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Fellow to create an extreme heat preparedness toolkit for Missoula County. This toolkit’s goal is to highlight and address the community's concerns about hotter summers, hear how people deal with extreme heat and identify ways in which Missoula County can better support residents.
We’re using this page to learn how hotter summers are impacting you, what you’re currently doing to stay cool, and what you’d like to see in the toolkit! Add your thoughts via the ideas tool and complete this survey to help us plan for extreme heat!
