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What percentage of American adults took no special steps to stay cool or cut cooling costs on hot days?

64.4% of American adults took no special steps to stay cool or cut cooling costs on hot days - about 64 in every 100, or 6 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.

Where this number comes from

Survey

Household Pulse Survey

What it measured

HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item HOT_NOACTION (“On hot days have you or members of your household done any of the following to stay cool or reduce home cooling costs? Select all that apply”), counting responses 1=Selected, as a share of adults who answered (15.3% did not). Computed from the Census Bureau's public-use microdata with the person weight PWEIGHT; the standard error uses its 80 successive-difference replicate weights (4/80 · Σ of squared deviations). The counts and standard errors behind it reproduce the published table housing4. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 11,401.

Population

U.S. adults aged 18 and over

Year

2026

95% confidence interval

62.04% to 66.76% (derived from the published standard error)

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