2025: Idaho's Year in Wildfire

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) responds to the yearly deterioration of air quality due to smoke from wildfires in a variety of ways, including air quality monitoring and forecasting, interagency coordination of outreach to protect public health, compilation of emissions from wildfire sources, flagging of monitoring data for exceptional events demonstrations, and analysis of wildfire trends and events. Highlights from the 2025 wildfire season include the following: Approximately 188,319 acres of wildland burned. 34,604 metric tons of PM2.5 pollution were released from Idaho fires. Idaho experienced 21 days with an Air Quality Advisory in place. DEQ led 5 interagency coordination calls and responded to 3 media inquiries. The DEQ Air Idaho app was accessed over 5,600 times to check Idaho’s air quality. DEQ participated in the national Smoke Ready campaign – creating and sharing social media content that reached thousands of members of the Idaho public.