“…Social vulnerability to environmental hazard means the relative potential for physical harm and social disruption to subpopulations of societies and their larger subsystems based on socioeconomic status, age, gender, race and ethnicity, family structure, residential location and other demographic variables [21]. In the studies investigated the relationship between extreme heat relate weather events and socioeconomic status of the area, socioeconomic variables including total population [12], population density [15,16,19], total housing units [12], gender [12], race and ethnicity [12,14,16,22,23], number of older and younger population [12,14,23,24], education [14,23], median house value [12,16,25], median household income [13,22], poverty [14,[22][23][24], housing tenure [22], number of mobile homes [12] were most widely used and found significant.…”