Maine school sports heat policy
MPA sets no WBGT or other heat limit for Maine school sports; its handbook’s only heat rule is that every coach has viewed an NFHS heat illness video. How to read these labels
- Association
- MPA (Maine Principals' Association)
- Label
- No statewide WBGT rule
- Reading it uses
- No measured limit
- Statewide table
- None
- Last checked
- September 29, 2026
What MPA’s document says
MPA publishes no WBGT policy and no heat thresholds. The only heat rule in its 2026-27 Handbook is about coaches: “Every coach must have viewed the NFHS ‘Heat Illness Prevention’ video.” Its July 2026 Coaches’ Handbook covers heat-related illness without naming an instrument or a threshold. So there is no Maine WBGT table for us to show you.
We won’t show another state’s WBGT thresholds in its place: regional tables differ by several degrees. Follow the policy your school, district or league has adopted. For general heat guidance at your field, open the map.
MPA Handbook 2026-27 and Coaches' Handbook (July 2026)This is a plain-language summary to help you plan. It is not legal advice, and it is not the association’s document. Associations revise these policies often. Confirm what currently applies with your school, district or association.
What else to know
- Under MPA’s Handbook, volunteer coaches as well as paid ones view the video “prior to working with students”. Appendix R adds that no other course can take its place.
- MPA’s July 2026 Coaches’ Handbook, a separate file from the Handbook linked here, says “Proper acclimatization requires progressively increasing the duration and intensity of exercise during the first 10 to 14 days of heat exposure”, with equipment and clothing kept to a minimum during that time.
- For recognizing and treating heat illness, the Coaches’ Handbook points coaches to two 2022 position statements from the NFHS Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, one on heat acclimatization and one on hydration.
How to read this
We found no WBGT limits in MPA’s document, and no other measured heat limit, so there is no table to show. Your school or district may still have its own heat policy, so ask.
Before you rely on this
- This page summarizes MPA’s document. It does not replace it. If they differ, go by the document and by the policy your school or league has adopted.
- Confirm what currently applies with your school, district or association. Many schools adopt their own version.
- Any WBGT number WetBulbTracker shows is a modeled estimate for planning, not an official reading. Where a policy calls for an on-site reading, that reading governs.
- This page does not replace an athletic trainer’s judgment.
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