Air Quality Report for Southwest Oregon Issued:
August 26, 2015
Synopsis:
Fires: The fires in northern
California remain active and producing lots of smoke. The northern most fires are the Gasquet Complex and Nickowitz Fire. In Oregon, the National Creek
Complex is 10,833 acres and 10 percent contained. The Collier
Butte Fire is 9,600 acres and 40 percent contained. The Stouts Creek Fire is 26,500
acres and 86 percent contained.
Air
Quality Today: Air quality remains
moderate to unhealthy across much of southwestern Oregon, with Brookings being
the only location with clean air.
Diurnal flows are trapping smoke in valleys with only moderate clearing
overnight. Afternoon transport flows
will shift from the southwest to the west bringing smoke northeast and to the
east.
Air Quality Tomorrow: Afternoon transport winds from the southwest are
expected, bringing good air quality to Gold Beach and Brookings, but moderate
to very unhealthy air quality across the rest of southwestern Oregon.
Air Quality Outlook:
|
Location
|
Yesterday 8/26/2015
|
Today 8/27/2015
|
Tomorrow 8/28/2015
|
Worst Time of Day
|
|
Roseburg
|
Good
|
Moderate
|
Moderate
|
12 pm
until 6 pm
|
|
Cave Junction
|
Moderate
|
USG
|
Moderate
|
9 am until
6 pm
|
|
Grants Pass
|
Moderate
|
USG
|
USG
|
10 am
until 6 pm
|
|
Klamath Falls
|
USG
|
USG
|
Unhealthy
|
8 pm until
8 am
|
|
Medford
|
USG
|
Unhealthy
|
Unhealthy
|
3 pm until
12 am
|
|
Provolt
|
Moderate
|
USG
|
Unhealthy
|
12 pm
until 8 pm
|
|
Shady Cove
|
Good
|
USG
|
USG
|
8 pm until
12 am
|
|
Eagle Point
|
No Data
|
USG
|
USG
|
6 pm until
12 am
|
|
Jacksonville
|
No Data
|
Unhealthy
|
Very Unhealthy
|
6 pm until
12 am
|
|
Ashland
|
Unhealthy
|
Unhealthy
|
Unhealthy
|
6 pm until
10 pm
|
|
Prospect
|
No Data
|
Moderate
|
Moderate
|
7 pm until
10 pm
|
|
Agness
|
No Data
|
USG
|
USG
|
6 am until
12 pm
|
|
Gold Beach
|
No Data
|
Moderate
|
Good
|
3 am until
9 am
|
|
Brookings
|
No Data
|
Good
|
Good
|
|
|
AQI
Category
(PM2.5 µg/m3) |
Potential
Health Impacts
|
Actions to
Protect Yourself
|
|
Good (0-12)
|
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 – USG (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, 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.
|
|
Hazardous (>250)
|
The
entire population is even more likely to be affected by serious health
effects.
|
The
following groups should remain indoors and keep activity levels low: People
with heart or lung disease; children and older adults. Everyone else should
avoid prolonged or heavy exertion
|
Learn more
at: a) Oregon Smoke Blog http://oregonsmoke.blogspot.com
b) AirNow http://airnow.gov and http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=topics.smoke_wildfires
c) Oregon
DEQ Air monitoring http://www.deq.state.or.us/aqi/index.aspx