--- attributes: ~ caption: 'Wildfires, which are projected to increase in some regions due to climate change, have health impacts that can extend hundreds of miles. Shown here, forest fires in Quebec, Canada, during July 2002 (red circles) resulted in up to a 30-fold increase in airborne fine particle concentrations in Baltimore, Maryland, a city nearly a thousand miles downwind. These fine particles, which are extremely harmful to human health, not only affect outdoor air quality, but also penetrate indoors, increasing the long-distance effects of fires on health.3bfcb39e-f3ee-4d20-8f53-77c8487599b4 An average of 6.4 million acres burned in U.S. wildfires each year between 2000 and 2010, with 9.5 and 9.1 million acres burned in 2006 and 2012, respectively.990aa49a-a25d-416c-945a-17fad9a5b824 Total global deaths from the effects of landscape fire smoke have been estimated at 260,000 to 600,000 annually between the years 1997 and 2006.6f5e49f0-fd59-4eba-9311-05ce16734498 (Figure source: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite, Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC).' chapter: description: ~ display_name: 'Chapter 9: Human Health' doi: 10.7930/J0PN93H5 identifier: human-health number: 9 report_identifier: nca3 sort_key: 90 title: Human Health url: http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/sectors/human-health chapter_identifier: human-health cited_by: [] contributors: [] create_dt: ~ description: 'Wildfires, which are projected to increase in some regions due to climate change, have health impacts that can extend hundreds of miles. Shown here, forest fires in Quebec, Canada, during July 2002 (red circles) resulted in up to a 30-fold increase in airborne fine particle concentrations in Baltimore, Maryland, a city nearly a thousand miles downwind. These fine particles, which are extremely harmful to human health, not only affect outdoor air quality, but also penetrate indoors, increasing the long-distance effects of fires on health.3bfcb39e-f3ee-4d20-8f53-77c8487599b4 An average of 6.4 million acres burned in U.S. wildfires each year between 2000 and 2010, with 9.5 and 9.1 million acres burned in 2006 and 2012, respectively.990aa49a-a25d-416c-945a-17fad9a5b824 Total global deaths from the effects of landscape fire smoke have been estimated at 260,000 to 600,000 annually between the years 1997 and 2006.6f5e49f0-fd59-4eba-9311-05ce16734498 (Figure source: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite, Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC).' display_name: '9.3: Wildfire Smoke has Widespread Health Effects' files: - display_name: health_Quebec_wildfires_12788_v5.png file: 77/2a/f465b8199c74f51ac4ae98291fbf/health_Quebec_wildfires_12788_v5.png href: http://data.globalchange.gov/assets/77/2a/f465b8199c74f51ac4ae98291fbf/health_Quebec_wildfires_12788_v5.png identifier: 6fe9b30a-f383-4963-bff3-ae2a2128dd99 landing_page: ~ location: ~ mime_type: image/png sha1: b7a884170c596e88bd36868365a341a4b26cb80f size: 1329552 thumbnail: 77/2a/f465b8199c74f51ac4ae98291fbf/.thumb-6fe9b30a-f383-4963-bff3-ae2a2128dd99.png thumbnail_href: http://data.globalchange.gov/assets/77/2a/f465b8199c74f51ac4ae98291fbf/.thumb-6fe9b30a-f383-4963-bff3-ae2a2128dd99.png type: file uri: /file/6fe9b30a-f383-4963-bff3-ae2a2128dd99 url: http://data.globalchange.gov/assets/77/2a/f465b8199c74f51ac4ae98291fbf/health_Quebec_wildfires_12788_v5.png href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/nca3/chapter/human-health/figure/wildfire-smoke-has-widespread-health-effects.yaml identifier: wildfire-smoke-has-widespread-health-effects images: - attributes: ~ create_dt: ~ description: ~ identifier: bf0d948c-6081-4101-bce1-b30542a08d00 lat_max: 57.3223 lat_min: 32.7816 lon_max: -62.3481 lon_min: -92.3073 position: ~ submission_dt: ~ time_end: 2002-07-07T12:35:00 time_start: 2002-07-07T12:35:00 title: Wildfire Smoke has Widespread Health Effects url: ~ usage_limits: ~ kindred_figures: [] lat_max: 57.3223 lat_min: 32.7816 lon_max: -62.3481 lon_min: -92.3073 ordinal: 3 parents: [] references: - href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/reference/3bfcb39e-f3ee-4d20-8f53-77c8487599b4.yaml uri: /reference/3bfcb39e-f3ee-4d20-8f53-77c8487599b4 - href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/reference/6f5e49f0-fd59-4eba-9311-05ce16734498.yaml uri: /reference/6f5e49f0-fd59-4eba-9311-05ce16734498 - href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/reference/990aa49a-a25d-416c-945a-17fad9a5b824.yaml uri: /reference/990aa49a-a25d-416c-945a-17fad9a5b824 report: display_name: 'Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment' report_identifier: nca3 source_citation: 'Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite, Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC' submission_dt: ~ time_end: 2002-07-07T12:35:00 time_start: 2002-07-07T12:35:00 title: Wildfire Smoke has Widespread Health Effects type: figure uri: /report/nca3/chapter/human-health/figure/wildfire-smoke-has-widespread-health-effects url: http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/human-health/graphics/wildfire-smoke-has-widespread-health-effects usage_limits: Free to use with credit to the original figure source.