Wildfires

At a glance

• Take steps to be ready for a wildfire and prepare your home and landscaping to reduce your risk.
• Learn how to protect yourself and your family from a wildfire, evacuate safely during a wildfire, and how to stay healthy when you return home.

Who is at increased risk

Wildfire smoke can make anyone sick, but some people have a higher risk of getting sick.

Wildfire smoke can reach far away from where fires burn.Wildfire smoke can make anyone sick, but some people have a higher risk of getting sick, such as children, people who have chronic conditions, and people who are pregnant.Be ready to protect yourself against smoke and ash before, during, and after a wildfire.

How Wildfire Smoke Affects Your Body

Wildfire smoke can make anyone sick, but some people have a higher risk of getting sick.

Wildfire Smoke and Children

Take extra care to protect children against wildfire smoke.

Wildfire Smoke and People with Chronic Conditions

People with any chronic condition should take steps to protect themselves from wildfire smoke.

Wildfire Smoke and Pregnancy

Pregnancy is a time to take extra care to protect yourself against wildfire smoke.

Prepare for wildfires

Take steps to be ready for a wildfire and prepare your home and landscaping to reduce your risk from a wildfire.

More and more people make their homes in areas that are prone to wildfires.You can take steps to be ready for a wildfire and prepare your home and landscaping to reduce your risk from a wildfire.

Keep ReadingPreparing for Wildfires

Stay safe during a wildfire

Reduce your exposure to wildfire smoke.

It's important for everyone to reduce their exposure to smoke. Wildfire smoke irritates your eyes, nose, throat, and lungs. It can make it hard to breathe and make you cough or wheeze. Children and people with asthma, COPD, heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, or who are pregnant need to be especially careful about breathing wildfire smoke.

Keep ReadingSafety Guidelines: Wildfires and Wildfire Smoke

Stay safe after a wildfire

Take steps to protect yourself and your loved ones when returning to your home after a fire.

If your home was affected by a wildfire, do not return home until authorities say it is safe.Take steps to protect yourself and your loved ones when returning to your home after a fire.

Keep ReadingSafety Guidelines: After a Wildfire

Resources

• Natural Disasters and Severe Weather
• Fighting Wildfires | NIOSH | CDC
• Be Smoke Ready (airnow.gov)
• Wildfires | Ready.gov
• NFPA - Firewise USA®
• Fire Weather
• Fire and Smoke Map (airnow.gov)
• HeatRisk | Tracking | NCEH | CDC

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