Corals around Belize have experienced elevated temperatures 27 times in the past 41 years.
  1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.69 C on 27-Oct-2023
  2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.14 C on 18-Oct-2024
  3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.43 C on 16-Aug-2023
  4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.43 C on 22-Aug-2023
  5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.41 C on 20-Aug-2023
  6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 13.91 C on 01-Nov-2019
  7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 12.50 C on 08-Oct-2020
  8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 12.03 C on 20-Oct-2017
  9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.69 C on 01-Nov-2021
  10. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.61 C on 23-Aug-2024
  11. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.61 C on 26-Aug-2024
  12. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.57 C on 20-Aug-2024
  13. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.14 C on 23-Oct-1998
  14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.87 C on 18-Oct-2016
  15. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.62 C on 27-Sep-2005
  16. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.44 C on 08-Nov-2015
  17. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.95 C on 19-Oct-2004
  18. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.69 C on 28-Sep-2021
  19. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.55 C on 23-Sep-2010
  20. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.49 C on 19-Oct-2011
  21. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.34 C on 30-Aug-2020
  22. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.32 C on 24-Oct-2009
  23. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.78 C on 15-Oct-2008
  24. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.78 C on 12-Aug-2020
  25. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.63 C on 05-Nov-2003
  26. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.45 C on 22-Sep-2009
  27. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.23 C on 02-Jan-2024

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 3286.