Southern Nevada may be approaching its coolest season, but investigators are still working to close several cases where people died in the heat.

The county coroner provided an updated count of this year’s heat-related deaths Thursday — tacking on an additional 19 deaths to the one it released last month . That brings the heat death toll for Southern Nevada up to 279.

It’s still a marked decrease from the record 2024 tally. That record hot summer proved to be deadly, with 527 deaths because of the heat. In mid-October of last year , the toll had already cracked 400.

This year’s count has surpassed those of 2021 and 2022 but hasn’t broken the 2023 toll.

It can take up to three months to determine the cause of nearly all deaths and for officials to release information, so the number of he

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