Overview
- National reports and an AFP compilation put preliminary excess deaths in the June event at at least 12,000 across about a dozen countries, with EuroMOMO’s provisional weekly aggregation showing roughly 14,260 excess deaths for the peak week.
- Santé publique France updated regional data on 17 July to show Île‑de‑France had a 122% rise in deaths between 22 and 28 June, equal to about 1,565 excess deaths and nearly 3,000 total deaths for the week.
- The Dutch RIVM reported 911 excess deaths for 22 June–5 July and said poor air quality from smog likely made heat effects worse, with the oldest age groups most affected.
- A later early‑July heat episode raised heat‑related emergency visits and hospital admissions in France to about 500–600 visits per day and 250–350 daily admissions, though those levels remained well below the late‑June peak.
- Agencies warn figures are provisional, methods differ between countries, some heat deaths show delayed effects, and climate attribution groups say the June event was made far more likely by human‑driven warming, prompting calls to treat extreme heat as a public‑health emergency.