The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States

M Burke, A Driscoll, S Heft-Neal… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on
the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated …

Particulate air pollution from wildfires in the Western US under climate change

JC Liu, LJ Mickley, MP Sulprizio, F Dominici, X Yue… - Climatic change, 2016 - Springer
Wildfire can impose a direct impact on human health under climate change. While the
potential impacts of climate change on wildfires and resulting air pollution have been …

[HTML][HTML] Wildfire plumes in the Western US are reaching greater heights and injecting more aerosols aloft as wildfire activity intensifies

TY Wilmot, DV Mallia, AG Hallar, JC Lin - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
By producing a first-of-its-kind, decadal-scale wildfire plume rise climatology in the Western
US and Canada, we identify trends toward enhanced plume top heights, aerosol loading …

[HTML][HTML] Health costs of wildfire smoke to rise under climate change

H Clarke, B Cirulis, N Borchers-Arriagada… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
The global health burden from wildfire smoke is expected to worsen under climate change,
yet we lack quantitative estimates of the economic costs of increased mortality and hospital …

Daily Local-Level Estimates of Ambient Wildfire Smoke PM2.5 for the Contiguous US

ML Childs, J Li, J Wen, S Heft-Neal… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Smoke from wildfires is a growing health risk across the US. Understanding the spatial and
temporal patterns of such exposure and its population health impacts requires separating …

Economic footprint of California wildfires in 2018

D Wang, D Guan, S Zhu, MM Kinnon, G Geng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent increases in the frequency and scale of wildfires worldwide have raised concerns
about the influence of climate change and associated socioeconomic costs. In the western …

Impacts of fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke on respiratory and cardiovascular health in California

A Heaney, JD Stowell, JC Liu, R Basu, M Marlier… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increases in wildfire activity across the Western US pose a significant public health threat.
While there is evidence that wildfire smoke is detrimental for respiratory health, the impacts …

[HTML][HTML] Wildfire smoke impacts respiratory health more than fine particles from other sources: observational evidence from Southern California

R Aguilera, T Corringham, A Gershunov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Wildfires are becoming more frequent and destructive in a changing climate. Fine particulate
matter, PM2. 5, in wildfire smoke adversely impacts human health. Recent toxicological …

Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States

DA Jaffe, SM O'Neill, NK Larkin, AL Holder… - Journal of the Air & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people
exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) …

Spatial and temporal estimates of population exposure to wildfire smoke during the Washington state 2012 wildfire season using blended model, satellite, and in situ …

W Lassman, B Ford, RW Gan, G Pfister… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the western US, smoke from wild and prescribed fires can severely degrade air quality.
Due to changes in climate and land management, wildfires have increased in frequency and …