Let’s talk about the weather: injuries related to extreme weather

The past decade has seen increasing injuries related to extreme weather. In the ten years from 2012–13 to 2021–22 there were 9,119 hospitalisations in Australia with direct evidence of extreme weather-related injury. In three years out of the ten, hospitalisations for this type of injury exceeded 1,000 cases, with extreme heat causing the largest proportion of injuries. From 2011–12 to 2020–21 there were also 677 extreme weather-related injury deaths– an average of 68 per year.