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Large wildfires are burning across Oregon and Washington, fueled by: 🌡️Hotter temperatures 🏜️Record drought 📈Increasingly dry conditions These worsening conditions increase both the wildfire risk and smoke pollution, which can degrade air quality and impact health.

Fire weather days — periods with hot, dry, and windy conditions that increase wildfire risk — are becoming more common in the Pacific Northwest. 📍In northeastern Washington, including the Spokane area, there are now 21 more fire weather days on average than in the early 1970s.

That means high-risk wildfire conditions have grown from less than a week each year 55 years ago to more than three weeks today. 📍South-central Oregon has seen a similar trend, with 26 more fire weather days on average than in the 1970s.