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Baker County avoids fires, but not smoke

Smoke. With a persistent pattern of southwesterly winds at higher altitudes, smoke from the Bootleg fire in Klamath and Lake counties has wafted into Baker County. That blaze, which exceeded 300,000 acres on Sunday, July 18, is the nation’s biggest. On Monday morning, the air quality in Baker City was the worst of any measuring stations in Oregon. During the morning, the air quality index, measured by a sensor on the roof of the David J. Wheeler Federal Building, 1550 Dewey Ave., ranged from 156 to 165. That’s in the “unhealthy” category on the air quality index. As of 8 a.m. on Monday, only one other measuring station — at Cove City Hall — was recording air quality in the unhealthy category. Cove’s reading at 8 a.m. was 151, compared with 156 in Baker City.

Unhealthy Wildfire Smoke More Prevalent, Says Oregon DEQ

   The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality released its second annual Wildfire Smoke Trends report. It’s pretty easy to sum up the findings, said Tom Roick, air quality monitoring manager for DEQ. “The number of unhealthy air quality days related to wildfires is definitely increasing across the state, particularly in the last five years,” he said.  It’s not just the number of days with bad air that’s on the rise. It’s also the intensity of the smoke and its geographic reach.   For instance, from 1988 through 2014, the DEQ says Eugene/Springfield didn’t have a single day of unhealthy air quality due to wildfire smoke. Since then, there have been 28 days, with more than half of those deemed unhealthy for all residents, not just those considered to be at risk due to age or health conditions.

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