Estimated Mortality and Morbidity Attributable to Smoke Plumes in the United States: Not Just a Western US Problem.

ABSTRACT: As anthropogenic emissions continue to decline and emissions from landscape (wild, prescribed, and agricultural) fires increase across the coming century, the relative importance of landscape-fire smoke on air quality and health in the United States (US) will increase. Landscape fires are a large source of fine particulate matter (PM_2.5), which has known negative impacts on human health. The seasonal and spatial distribution, particle composition, and co-emitted species in landscape-fire emissions are different from anthropogenic sources of PM_2.5. The implications of landscape-fire emissions on the sub-national temporal and spatial distribution of health events and the relative health importance of specific pollutants within smoke are not well understood. We use a hea

SUBMITTER: O'Dell K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8420710 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature