2022: 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, 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. This Storymap summarizes Idaho's 2022 wildfire season within a historical context and provides the following information: An infographic dashboard highlights relevant statistics of the wildfire season such as area burned and the number and location of wildfires. A review of notable local fires. Emissions data and an annual report linked to a map of wildfire perimeters. Outreach information, season length, and response dates. Air quality during the wildfire season in time-series charts for each DEQ regional office area. Historical charts putting the 2022 wildfire season into context with the past decade.