00:51 134 Degrees! Hottest Temperature Ever in Every State Ever wonder what the highest temperature in your state was? Danielle Banks has the numbers for all 50 states.

Whenever a stretch of very hot temperatures arrives the question becomes how hot will it get and will any records be broken. The map above shows the hottest temperature on record for each state, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the data may be surprising to some.

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Regardless of whether new high temperature records are set, heat should be taken seriously as it is the weather event that produces the most fatalities each year. Knowing the highest temperature that has been reached in your state may help to understand just how dangerous the heat can be, especially when dew points are taken into account.

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Every state, including Alaska and Hawaii, have recorded a high temperature of at least 100 degrees , according to NOAA, with many states well above 115 degrees.

It is no surprise that the hottest temperatures in the U.S. have been recorded in the Desert Southwest. In fact, the highest temperature recorded in California, 134 degrees, is also the current hottest air temperature on record on Earth and was measured in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913.

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Most of the Plains states, which also can be an area with extreme heat and large temperature variations, have recorded temperatures over 120 degrees. A high temperature of 121 degrees was measured as far north as Steele, North Dakota on July 6, 1936 and many of the records in the Plains were set in 1936, during the peak of the Dust Bowl. Oklahoma, for instance, reached its record of 120 degrees four times and in three different locations in the summer of 1936.

The Pacific Northwest and the Midwest also have numerous states with records over 115 degrees. For example, the hottest temperature recorded in Oregon is 119 degrees which was set twice in 1898, once on July 29 in Prineville and then on August 10 in Pendleton. Two locations also hold the record of 118 degrees in Missouri and both occurred on the same day, July 14, 1954.

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Record temperatures in the Northeast and South are not as hot as in the West, but there are still some notable records. The 109 degree record for Maryland was first set on July 3, 1898, in Boettcherville, but has since been tied five times in three locations. One of the most recent state records was set in Columbia, South Carolina on June 29, 2012 when the mercury soared to 113 degrees.

Also of interest is that Alaska and Hawaii share the same record high temperature of 100 degrees. Alaska's record was set in Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915, and Hawaii's record occurred on April 27, 1931, near Pahala on the Big Island.

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