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WA air quality by county. Air quality is reported by the U.S. Air Quality Index, as well as the Washington State Department of Ecology. County numbers are an average based on several cities ...
Western Washington’s air quality has remained unimpacted and is not expected to see any changes in the immediate future, according to the Washington Smoke Blog.
Washington wildfire, smoke map: Track latest wildfires, red flag warnings East Bremerton’s air quality monitoring station was reporting an Air Quality Index of 58, as of Friday morning. Quality ...
Fires included the Nakia Creek Fire in Southwest Washington and one on private timberland near Loch Katrine in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness 30 miles east of Seattle. [18] [19] Flames from the Loch Katrine fire could be seen from Seattle. [20] On October 18 and 19, due to wildfire smoke, Seattle had the worst air quality of any major city in the ...
Smoke from this fire and other fires in inland Washington and British Columbia was pushed towards Western Washington and rapid convective mixing caused unhealthy air quality in Seattle on August 20–21. [20] [21] The Gray Fire was ignited on August 18 near Medical Lake in Spokane County and grew to over 9,500 acres (3,800 ha) within a day.
The Evans Canyon Fire, a few miles north of Naches, was ignited around August 31 and expanded to tens of thousands of acres, shut down Washington State Route 821 in the Yakima River Canyon, burned several homes and caused hundreds of families to evacuate, and caused unhealthy air quality in Yakima County. [22]
At one point, the Air Quality Index (AQI) - used by public officials to measure air pollution - reached above 350, on a scale that runs from 0-500. The air pollution level is currently ...
Until July, no heavy smoke events had impacted ground-level air quality in the state's largest cities of Seattle and Spokane in Western Washington and Eastern Washington respectively, but there was the possibility of smoke entering the state from large Western fires like the Oregon Bootleg Fire.