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Wildfire Smoke Resources to Protect Your Health

This page provides guides, fact sheets, brochures, infographics and web resources for use in learning about the health impacts of wildland fire smoke.

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  • Wildfire Preparedness and Response during COVID-19
  • Publications
  • Health Fact Sheets
  • Health Care Professional Online Training
  • Videos
  • Other Federal Government Resources
  • State and Local Government Resources

Wildfire Preparedness and Response during COVID-19 

  • CDC - Wildfire Smoke and COVID-19: Frequently Asked Questions and Resources for Air Resource Advisors and Other Environmental Health Professionals
  • CDC - COVID-19 Considerations for Cleaner Air Shelters and Cleaner Air Spaces to Protect the Public from Wildfire Smoke
  • CDC - Natural Disasters and Severe Weather
  • CDC - Interim Guidance for General Population Disaster Shelters During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • CDC - FAQs for Wildland Firefighters
  • CDC - Environmental Health Assessment Form for Disaster Shelters

Indoor Air Quality and COVID-19

  • EPA - Frequent Questions about Indoor Air and Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Other Smoke and COVID-19 Related Materials

  • CDC - Open Burning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Publications

  • Protecting Building Occupants from Smoke During Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Events
  • Recommendations for Reducing Wildfire Smoke in Commercial Buildings and Schools
  • 2019 Revised: Wildfire Smoke Guide
  • Air Quality and Outdoor Activity Guidance for Schools 
  • Air Quality Index Publications
  • Residential Air Cleaners, A Technical Summary

Health Fact Sheets

  • Reduce Your Smoke Exposure
  • Protecting Children from Wildfire Smoke and Ash 
  • Protect Your Pets from Wildfire Smoke
  • Protect Your Large Animals and Livestock from Wildfire Smoke
  • Protect Your Lungs from Wildfire Smoke and Ash
  • Protect Yourself From Ash
  • Indoor Air Filtration
  • Prepare for Fire Season
  • Asthma and Outdoor Air Pollution
  • Heart Disease, Stroke and Air Pollution

Health Care Professional Online Training

  • Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients' Health
  • Particle Pollution and Your Patients' Health

Videos

  • Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials. This document, originally developed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), is designed to help local public health officials prepare for smoke events, to take measures to protect the public when smoke is present, and communicate with the public about wildfire smoke and health.
    • Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials 
  • Wildfire Smoke and Mental Health. Protecting mental health during wildfires and other disasters is important, just like protecting physical health. In this video, Dr. Petra Steinbuchel, Director of the University of California-San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospitals Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Portal, shares information on what you can do to protect your family's mental health during wildfires and other stressful events.
    • English - https://youtu.be/tbwuiVyF-ns
    • Spanish - https://youtu.be/cvMBmKuDD1w
  • Wildfire Smoke and Children's Health. Dr. Stephanie Holm, Co-Director of the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, shares information on what you can do to reduce wildfire smoke exposure for kids. The Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit is an EPA partner.
    • English - https://youtu.be/yjjDSDfonik
    • Spanish - https://youtu.be/5wOn6jVVFsl

Other Federal Government Resources

  • Wildfires and Indoor Air Quality
  • Create a a Clean Room to Protect Indoor Air Quality
  • Particulate Matter (PM) Pollution 
  • EPA Wildland Fire Research
  • U.S. Forest Service Wildland Fire and Air Quality Response Program
  • CDC's Protect Yourself from Wildfire Smoke
  • Burn Wise. This program promotes the importance of burning the right wood, the right way, in the right appliance. 

State and Local Government Resources

Alaska: 

  • Alaska Division of Air Quality, Department of Environmental Conservation

California: 

  • ​California Certified Air Cleaning Devices 
  • Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District 
  • California Air Resources Board 

Idaho:

  • Idaho Department of Environmental Quality -- Real-Time Air Monitoring

Montana:

  • Missoula, Montana, Mountain Wildfire Smoke Information

New Mexico:

  • New Mexico Fire Information

Oregon:

  • Oregon Wildfire Risk Explorer
  • Air Pollution in Oregon: Real-Time Air Quality Index Visual Map
  • Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Smoke Information  Blog
  • Oregon Wildfire Smoke Protocol for Severe Smoke Episodes

Washington:

  • Washington's Air Monitoring Network
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Last updated on September 21, 2021