Heat Safety Education

Learn how to stay safe during extreme heat.

The American Red Cross has one of the clearest heat safety resources for preparing before extreme heat, recognizing warning signs, responding to heat-related illness, and protecting yourself, your family, neighbors, volunteers, and community members during dangerous temperatures.

Learn Heat Safety with the Red Cross → Learn Heat Safety from the Red Cross

Start with the Red Cross guide and use it as a go-to resource all summer long.

Use this page for

  • ✓ Volunteer and staff heat safety training
  • ✓ Community education before hot weather arrives
  • ✓ Outreach conversations with seniors, families, and unsheltered neighbors
  • ✓ Quick access to trusted emergency preparedness information
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Use the Red Cross guide to learn what heat exhaustion and heat stroke can look like, how to prepare your home, and what steps to take when temperatures become dangerous.

Red Cross Heat Safety

Learn everything you can before the next heat advisory.

Extreme heat can become dangerous quickly. The Red Cross guide walks through how to prepare, how to stay cool, how to check on others, and when heat-related symptoms need urgent attention.

Prepare

Know what to do before extreme heat arrives

Review ways to keep your home cooler, plan ahead for outages or transportation needs, and identify where you can go to cool down.

Recognize

Learn the signs of heat illness

Understand what heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke can look like so you can respond quickly.

Respond

Protect yourself and check on others

Use the guide to support seniors, neighbors living alone, people without air conditioning, outdoor workers, transit riders, and unhoused neighbors.

Go to the Red Cross Heat Safety Guide →