At least 191 people have died from causes related to Southern Nevada’s heat this year, the Clark County coroner’s office said on Monday, the last day of summer.

It’s a significant jump in heat-related deaths from the last update on Aug. 21 , when the death toll was 114. That’s nearly a 68 percent increase, though the numbers still haven’t reached the 2024 record of 527.

There’s no set schedule to report heat deaths, and circumstances such as staffing can affect investigation timelines year-to-year, but the most comparable update from 2024 came on Sept. 26, when the heat death toll had risen to 342 .

The coroner’s office widened its umbrella for determining when heat is a factor in someone’s death in 2021, and temperatures above 95 degrees are generally when investigators will consider h

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