Time Series of Potential US Wildland Fire Smoke Exposures

This is a data set of United States population and wildland fire smoke spatial and temporal coincidence beginning in 2010 and continuing through 2019. It combines data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Satellite and Product Operations Hazard Mapping System’s Smoke Product (HMS-Smoke) with U.S. Census Block Group Population Centers to estimate a potential exposure to light, medium, and heavy categories of wildfire smoke.The data represents a modest advancement of NOAA's HMS-Smoke product, with the aims of spurring additional work on the impacts of wildfire smoke on the health of US Populations. Namely, these should include tracking potential wildfire smoke exposures to identify areas and times most heavily impacted by smoke, adding potential smoke exposures to population characteristics describing the social determinants of health in order to better distribute resources and contextualize public health messages and interventions, and combining information specific to wildfire smoke with other air pollution data to better isolate and understand the contribution of wildfires to poor health.