Air Quality Report 8/28/2014

Deception Complex Smoke Report (prepared by John Cook and Tod Johnson, Air Resource Advisors)­­­­­

The Deception Fire grew by 886 acres yesterday on the northeast end of the fire.  Smoke from the fire lifted over Hwy 58 reaching as far as Bend. The smoke settled early this morning. Expect smoke to increase through the morning to Unhealthy Levels for Sensitive Groups and remain through early afternoon.  Visibility will continue to be reduced along HWY 58 and the Willamette River draingage.       Anticipate similar smoke conditions around Oakridge through the evening hours and into tomorrow morning. Weekend air quality conditions are expected to remain poor with decreasing temperatures and poor dispersion reducing smoke movement away from the fire.

Air Quality Outlook (Particulate Matter less than 2.5 µm in diameter)

 

Site	Thursday Morning forecast Aug 28, 2014	Thursday Afternoon forecast Aug 28, 2014	Thursday Evening forecast Aug 28, 2014
Oakridge	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups
Westfir	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups
Hills Creek Lake Area	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate

AQI Index (µg/m3)	Potential Health Impacts	Actions to Protect Yourself
Good (0-12)	Air quality is satisfactory and poses little or no health risk.	None
Moderate (13-35)	Air quality is acceptable for most. There may be moderate health concern for a small number of sensitive people.	Unusually sensitive people should consider reducing prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion.
Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (36-55)	Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected.	People with heart or lung disease, children and older adults should reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion.  Everyone else should limit prolonged or heavy exertion.
Unhealthy (56-150)	Everyone may begin to experience more serious health effects.	The following groups should avoid all physical outdoor activity: People with heart or lung disease, children and older adults.  Everyone else should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion.
Very Unhealthy (151-250)	Triggers a health alert, meaning everyone may experience more serious health effects	Everyone should avoid any outdoor exertion; people with respiratory or heart disease, the elderly and children should remain indoors.

For more information see the Oregon Smoke blog: http://oregonsmoke.blogspot.com

Air Quality data can be viewed at: http://www.deq.state.or.us/aqi/index.aspx