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title: "San Antonio’s Heat Resilience Playbook"
slug: "san-antonio-s-heat-resilience-playbook"
tags: ["cooling", "environmental justice", "San Antonio", "urban climate resilience"]
updated: 2026-10-29T18:47:51Z
published: 2026-10-29T18:47:51Z
canonical: "fic.naturalareasnyc.org/san-antonio-s-heat-resilience-playbook"
---

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# San Antonio’s Heat Resilience Playbook

The City of San Antonio is taking action. The San Antonio Heat Resilience Playbook is a guide for the Mayor and City Council, an action plan for departments, a tool for the community and an opportunity to share San Antonio’s successes. It uplifts existing City-led heat resilience efforts, accelerates actions that have had limited movement, integrates existing initiatives to create greater impact, tracks progress and develops new transformative initiatives.

### In a nutshell, this resource offers:

- Information about heat preparedness, training material, and communications strategies
- Options for cooling strategies and assistance
- Extreme heat design standards
- Guidance on tree planting, green spaces, and biodiversity management

### How to use this resource:

- As a template for holistic planning for a climate threat
- To identify communications and preparation strategies
- As an example of data-driven heat adaptation planning

**Author:** City of San Antonio

**Date published:** 2025

[Resource is available online here](https://www.sa.gov/files/assets/main/v/2/sustainability/documents/shared/hrp-detailed-version.pdf).

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## Related

- [Cooling Cities: Harnessing Natural Areas to Combat Urban Heat](/cooling-study-fic.md)
- [Climate Adaptation Actions For Urban Forests And Human Health](/climate-adaptation-actions-urban-forests-human-health.md)