Air Quality Report and Outlook for 8/31/14

The Deception fire had minimal growth yesterday due to light rain conditions.  Overnight, the more stable conditions trapped emissions at the elevation of the fire. These emissions will drop into the valley early this morning before clearing out in the afternoon increased north winds. We forecast the air quality in Oakridge and Westfir to reach Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups in the morning but we anticipate the afternoon conditions to improve to the Moderate range. On Monday, northeast winds that should continue to push the majority of smoke to the South away from Oakridge and Westfir.

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

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

Site	Sunday Morning forecast Aug 31, 2014	Sunday Afternoon forecast Aug 31, 2014	Sunday Evening forecast Aug 31, 2014
Oakridge	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	Moderate	Moderate
Westfir	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	Moderate	Moderate
Hills Creek Lake Area	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	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.

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