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Euskadi recorded nearly 300 possible heat-related deaths in summer

By age, 92% of fatalities were over 65, according to estimates by the Carlos III Health Institute's Daily Mortality Monitoring System (Momo).

A thermometer reads 36 degrees Celsius in Bilbao, Spain, 22 June 2026. Spain is in the grip of a heatwave, with daytime highs of up to 42 degrees and sweltering nights. EFE/ Miguel Tona
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According to estimatesby the Daily Mortality Monitoring System (Momo) of the Carlos III Health Institute, 297 people may have died in the Basque Country during the summer for reasons attributable to heat.

In the other age groups, 13 people aged between 45 and 64 died in the summer, one died between 15 and 44, and no one under 15.

Among those killed by overtemperature pathologies, 185 were women (62.3 per cent) and 112 men (37.7 per cent).

Week after week, 89 deaths were recorded in the first week of summer, from 22 to 28 June, along with a major heat wave that caused the Osakidetza Emergency Service to treat 67 people from 20 to 28 June due to high temperatures, 37 of whom had to be transferred to hospitals and health centres.

In the week from 29 June to 5 July, heat deaths were 42, rising to 45 in each of the following two weeks. Between 20 and 26 July, 17 people died and between 27 July and 2 August, 20 people died. From 3 to 9 August, eight deaths were recorded, from 10 to 16 August, 23. Finally, eight more people died from heat last week.

Data from the Momo system

The Momo system does not count confirmed deaths, but does a statistical calculation , combining mortality data with temperature thresholds considered a health risk.

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