Significance Statement
Energy poverty alleviation programs have focused primarily on cold
season warming rather than warm season cooling. However, summertime
energy burden may be an increasing concern for minoritized households
nationwide. In this study we found that Latino and Black households
consistently experience warmer summers, as measured by near-surface air
temperature within the same county across 13 states of the northeast and
mid-Atlantic United States. Present-day residential segregation
represents a likely pathway. Segregation often overlaps with other
place-based inequalities, so hotter summers for households burdened with
poor housing quality, poverty, and health disparities indicate limited
adaptive capacity for ethnoracial minorities and the need for housing
and energy policy interventions.