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Problem, Approach, and Findings Extreme heat is one of the most concerning natural hazards facing cities today, forecasted to increase in frequency, duration, and intensity in the future. With close to 3.5 billion people projected to be impacted worldwide by extreme heat by 2070, it is critical that efforts focus on planning and adapting our built urban environment to reduce the risks that people will face from heat waves. A lack of data and monitoring has left uncertainty surrounding the full impact to people’s health from extreme heat. Currently, planners are undertaking important work to understand how extreme heat disproportionately affects communities historically discriminated against in planning practices. Implications This article looks at how local planners and municipalities, primarily in urban communities, can best address extreme heat within the lens of equitable resilience. Planners must go beyond unenforceable comprehensive plans to zoning regulations and unified development ordinances to change and adapt to threats posed by hazards. Equitable stakeholder engagement and environmental justice must be incorporated into the process, centering those with power and those most impacted, as these people will have the most at stake.