tag Early in 2020, the city of Jackson received a Leadership in Community Resilience grant from NLC to design and activate its Heat Preparedness Plan. Through a series of targeted interviews, surveys, and focus groups with frontline residents, the team set out to better understand how Jackson’s most at-risk residents perceive the dangers of extreme heat, and how they typically prepare for these often-life-threatening events. Although it is now winter across much of the US and the worst of the summer heat has subsided, it is easy to forget that 2020 was a record-breaking year for extreme heat (again): August was the warmest summer on record