Durg district has been selected for the study of heat waves. Durg district is located in the central part of Chhattisgarh. Rapid urbanization and industrialization has developed in this area. This area comes under the tropical climate zone due to which the temperature here is higher than normal days in summers, but in the months of May and June, hot air coming from the western region flows here due to which the temperature increases further. And the danger of a heat wave arises. Considering the heat wave as a natural disaster, a comparative study of temperature data of a decade of May from 2014to 2024 has been done for the study in the research paper. The reasons for the origin of heat waves, the increasing effect of heat waves on human health,environment, and animals have also been studied and government schemes for protection from heat waves, awareness among people, preventive measures like tree plantation by reducing the speed of urbanization are proposed in the presented research paper.

Keywords: heat wave, temperature rise,natural disaster, human health, environment