Summer AC Emergency Index · 2026 edition

The US cities where residents search hardest for AC repair

We ranked the 100 largest US cities by typical June–August search demand for AC repair help, per 1,000 households. Las Vegas, Denver and Port St. Lucie are the top cities that also hold up when measured against their whole metro.

By Home Stats Data · Published October 24, 2026 · Data from summers 2023 to 2026Embed the chart Methodology

Key findings

1Las Vegas is the top confirmed city with 80.5 typical Jun–Aug searches per 1,000 households, 16 times the rate in Anchorage, AK, which ranks last.
26 of the top 25 cities pass the ranking check. 19 don't, including Orlando, Tampa and Atlanta: they rank high on city-limits households but not on metro population. See the ranking check below.
3Denver searches 2.45x what its summer heat predicts, the most of any confirmed city.
4Philadelphia spikes hardest. Its peak month, July, runs 3.09x its yearly average.

Full rankings

Typical Jun–Aug searches per 1,000 households. Select a column to sort.

Rankings of the 100 largest US cities. Column headers sort the table.

1	Orlando, FL	104.8	2.59x	July	1991	Not confirmed
2	Tampa, FL	103.2	2.47x	July	1984	Not confirmed
3	Atlanta, GA	81.7	2.22x	July	1987	Not confirmed
4	Las Vegas, NV	80.5	1.72x	July	1994	Confirmed
5	Miami, FL	76.4	1.82x	May	1978	Not confirmed
6	Denver, CO	71.1	2.45x	June	1974	Confirmed
7	Riverside, CA	65.8	1.88x	August	1976	Not confirmed
8	Port St. Lucie, FL	62.8	1.60x	–	2001	Confirmed
9	Cincinnati, OH	58.0	1.84x	August	1951	Not confirmed
10	Cleveland, OH	57.2	1.96x	July	1940	Not confirmed
11	Houston, TX	57.0	1.34x	June	1981	Confirmed
12	Glendale, AZ	56.5	1.12x	–	1986	Not confirmed
13	Dallas, TX	56.4	1.28x	–	1980	Not confirmed
14	Plano, TX	56.1	1.36x	June	1993	Not confirmed
15	St. Louis, MO	54.8	1.57x	June	1938	Not confirmed
16	Gilbert, AZ	53.5	1.06x	September	2002	Not confirmed
17	Scottsdale, AZ	52.7	1.08x	July	1990	Not confirmed
18	Fort Worth, TX	52.2	1.24x	July	1992	Not confirmed
19	Bakersfield, CA	51.0	1.26x	July	1989	Confirmed
20	Phoenix, AZ	50.8	1.07x	–	1984	Confirmed
21	Sacramento, CA	48.3	1.53x	July	1976	Not confirmed
22	St. Petersburg, FL	48.1	1.15x	July	1969	Not confirmed
23	Mesa, AZ	47.7	0.95x	–	1988	Not confirmed
24	Minneapolis, MN	46.9	1.65x	July	1950	Not confirmed
25	Garland, TX	46.7	1.06x	August	1978	Not confirmed
26	Frisco, TX	46.4	1.12x	June	2009	–
27	Buffalo, NY	43.8	1.76x	June	1938	–
28	Raleigh, NC	43.7	1.19x	July	1996	–
29	Chandler, AZ	43.7	0.87x	July	1997	–
30	St. Paul, MN	42.8	1.50x	July	1952	–
31	Jacksonville, FL	41.9	1.01x	July	1986	–
32	Irving, TX	41.4	0.97x	July	1986	–
33	Tucson, AZ	41.0	0.91x	July	1979	–
34	Austin, TX	40.8	0.94x	August	1993	–
35	Pittsburgh, PA	40.5	1.47x	July	1942	–
36	El Paso, TX	40.2	0.96x	June	1983	–
37	Fort Wayne, IN	39.9	1.41x	–	1971	–
38	New Orleans, LA	39.6	0.94x	July	1959	–
39	Richmond, VA	38.9	1.10x	July	1959	–
40	Cape Coral, FL	38.9	0.94x	–	1999	–
41	Arlington, TX	38.7	0.91x	July	1985	–
42	San Antonio, TX	38.5	0.91x	August	1984	–
43	Indianapolis, IN	38.2	1.21x	August	1972	–
44	Charlotte, NC	37.8	1.04x	July	1994	–
45	Fresno, CA	37.0	0.94x	July	1979	–
46	Stockton, CA	37.0	1.08x	July	1979	–
47	Corpus Christi, TX	36.8	0.86x	August	1981	–
48	Baltimore, MD	35.6	1.06x	July	1948	–
49	Henderson, NV	35.0	0.73x	–	2000	–
50	Oklahoma City, OK	34.0	0.90x	July	1981	–
51	North Las Vegas, NV	33.6	0.72x	July	2002	–
52	Aurora, CO	32.7	1.13x	July	1985	–
53	Kansas City, MO	31.9	0.86x	July	1968	–
54	Louisville, KY	31.6	0.90x	August	1970	–
55	Anaheim, CA	31.5	0.90x	July	1973	–
56	Laredo, TX	31.4	0.69x	August	1996	–
57	Memphis, TN	31.1	0.78x	July	1970	–
58	Colorado Springs, CO	30.8	1.21x	July	1986	–
59	Los Angeles, CA	30.7	1.49x	July	1964	–
60	Nashville, TN	30.4	0.81x	July	1985	–
61	Tulsa, OK	30.3	0.76x	July	1972	–
62	Wichita, KS	29.9	0.79x	July	1974	–
63	Virginia Beach, VA	29.8	0.80x	July	1984	–
64	Greensboro, NC	29.3	0.84x	July	1983	–
65	Omaha, NE	29.2	0.87x	July	1972	–
66	Lubbock, TX	29.0	0.76x	–	1983	–
67	Albuquerque, NM	28.3	0.81x	July	1982	–
68	Columbus, OH	27.9	0.91x	July	1980	–
69	Detroit, MI	27.9	0.98x	July	1947	–
70	Winston-Salem, NC	27.6	0.79x	July	1980	–
71	Chesapeake, VA	27.6	0.74x	July	1989	–
72	Boise, ID	27.3	0.87x	July	1985	–
73	Milwaukee, WI	27.2	0.99x	July	1952	–
74	San Diego, CA	27.1	1.03x	August	1978	–
75	Lexington, KY	26.2	0.80x	July	1983	–
76	Norfolk, VA	26.2	0.70x	July	1964	–
77	Reno, NV	26.0	0.83x	July	1989	–
78	Portland, OR	25.7	1.12x	July	1966	–
79	Washington, DC	25.1	0.68x	July	1957	–
80	Irvine, CA	24.8	0.92x	July	2001	–
81	Durham, NC	24.7	0.67x	July	1994	–
82	Seattle, WA	23.5	1.44x	July	1974	–
83	Toledo, OH	22.9	0.75x	June	1955	–
84	Philadelphia, PA	22.4	0.66x	July	1949	–
85	Newark, NJ	22.2	0.66x	July	1966	–
86	Hialeah, FL	22.1	0.53x	–	1975	–
87	Lincoln, NE	21.5	0.64x	June	1981	–
88	Chicago, IL	21.4	0.68x	July	1952	–
89	New York, NY	21.3	0.65x	July	1952	–
90	Boston, MA	21.2	0.75x	July	1947	–
91	Jersey City, NJ	20.8	0.62x	July	1970	–
92	Santa Ana, CA	20.4	0.75x	July	1968	–
93	San Jose, CA	19.4	0.86x	–	1975	–
94	Honolulu, HI	18.9	0.48x	August	1973	–
95	Chula Vista, CA	16.6	0.68x	August	1986	–
96	Madison, WI	15.1	0.59x	July	1979	–
97	Long Beach, CA	14.9	0.53x	July	1958	–
98	San Francisco, CA	12.3	1.02x	June	1945	–
99	Oakland, CA	5.7	0.48x	July	1953	–
100	Anchorage, AK	4.9	1.12x	June	1982	–

Ranking check: who makes the cut

The ranking divides each city's searches by the households inside its city limits. That can overstate cities whose limits hold a small share of their metro, because Google counts searches from a wider area. So we also rank every city by searches per metro resident. A city is confirmed only if it ranks in the top 25 on both.

Confirmed (6)

Las Vegas, NV4th · 9th
Denver, CO6th · 11th
Port St. Lucie, FL8th · 5th
Houston, TX11th · 19th
Bakersfield, CA19th · 16th
Phoenix, AZ20th · 25th

Top 25, not confirmed (19)

Orlando, FL1st · 35th
Tampa, FL2nd · 33rd
Atlanta, GA3rd · 56th
Miami, FL5th · 66th
Riverside, CA7th · 78th
Cincinnati, OH9th · 46th
Cleveland, OH10th · 39th
Glendale, AZ12th · 85th
Dallas, TX13th · 48th
Plano, TX14th · 87th
St. Louis, MO15th · 59th
Gilbert, AZ16th · 84th
Scottsdale, AZ17th · 81st
Fort Worth, TX18th · 67th
Sacramento, CA21st · 45th
St. Petersburg, FL22nd · 71st
Mesa, AZ23rd · 70th
Minneapolis, MN24th · 64th
Garland, TX25th · 90th

Figures: rank on city-limits households · rank on metro population.

Where AC repair search demand runs high

Dot size: typical Jun–Aug searches per 1,000 households. Hover or tap a dot for the city page. Map: US Census Bureau via us-atlas.

Confirmed city spotlights

Las Vegas, NV

Searches / 1k HH: 80.5
vs weather: 1.72x
Median home built: 1994
Peak month: July

Full Las Vegas page

Denver, CO

Searches / 1k HH: 71.1
vs weather: 2.45x
Median home built: 1974
Peak month: June

Full Denver page

Port St. Lucie, FL

Searches / 1k HH: 62.8
vs weather: 1.60x
Median home built: 2001
Peak month: –

Full Port St. Lucie page

Methodology

We pulled monthly Google Ads search volume for 21 AC repair terms in each of the 100 largest US cities, from October 2022 to September 2026. Each city's June–August total is divided by its households from the Census ACS 2023 5-year estimates.

Close variants that Google reports as one shared number are counted once. To stop one-off data spikes skewing the ranking, each month uses the median of that calendar month across four years.

"vs weather" compares each city's searches with what its normal summer heat predicts. We took NOAA's 1991–2020 cooling degree days for each city's nearest long-running airport station and fitted one line through all 100 cities: searches per 1,000 households against cooling degree days (both on a log scale). A city's figure is its actual searches divided by what that line predicts for its climate, so 2.00x means twice the expected level. Climate explains only 46% of the difference between cities, so treat this as a rough guide, not a precise measure.

What this measures: search demand, not breakdowns or insurance claims. Searches come from anyone in the city, owners and renters alike, and are divided by all households. "City" is the location as Google Ads defines it; households are city limits.

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Cite: Home Stats Data, "Summer AC Emergency Index: 2026 edition," October 24, 2026, https://homestatsdata.com/hvac/ac-repair-statistics/

Also see the Winter Home Emergency Index.