{"id":4836,"date":"2026-07-17T20:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:06:15","slug":"use-these-maps-and-tools-to-track-wildfire-smokes-impact-across-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4836","title":{"rendered":"Use these maps and tools to track wildfire smoke\u2019s impact across the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\">Read our AI Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost 900 wildfires in Canada have burned nearly 7 million acres of land, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/weather-news\/article316546924.html\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">sending smoke down into the United States<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4834\">NC GOP Senate candidate sues Wake schools, says suspension politically motivated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of acres consumed by wildfires across the North America have dramatically increased in recent years, with a record-breaking number of wildfires in Canada in 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Wildfire smoke is made of a mix of pollutants, including fine and small particle pollution called PM2.5, one of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/wildfire-smoke-course\/wildfire-smoke-growing-public-health-concern\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">dangerous forms of air pollution<\/a> with prolonged or extreme exposure. Studies have shown that the increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06522-6\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires have stopped or reversed the gains<\/a> made in air quality since the Clean Air Act in some states, and that fine particle pollution in wildfire smoke caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-025-02314-0\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">more than 160,000 deaths<\/a> in the United States over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4832\">3 new Raleigh restaurants coming to downtown, North Hills and Glenwood Ave<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here area number of resources you can use to track air quality reports and wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4830\">Duke football coach Manny Diaz sounds off on Darian Mensah, ACC tiebreaker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use maps and tools \u2014 including AirNow, NOAA and IQAir \u2014 to track how wildfire smoke is impacting air quality across the US northeast states and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read-todays-edition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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