Most of this is due to wood-burning stoves, but outdoor fires remain a significant contributor. In Washington, wood smoke creates an estimated 51 percent of the state’s fine-particle pollution in winter.
Wood smoke also contains benzene, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acrolein, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). That may not sound like pollution, but reduced in size to 2.5 microns or less, these microscopic particles become toxic. Wood smoke contains fine particles of unburnt wood. Let’s look at the problems campfires cause. And that means they could also be at risk in areas less prone to conflagration. With the West Coast’s drought thought to be long-lasting, next summer will see similar if not even further-reaching restrictions-especially as these states face massive shortfalls in firefighting budgets.īut the risk and cost of wildfires is only one nail in the campfire’s coffin. Outside of the metal fire rings in organized campgrounds, you could not have a fire on public land. For much of this summer, most wilderness areas in those three states were under a total campfire ban. Will you be able to enjoy a fire on your next camping trip? For residents of California, Oregon, and Washington, the likely answer is already no. Scorching a total of 400 square miles, the Rim Fire was the third-largest wildfire in California’s history. Nine weeks later, the wildfire that resulted would finally be extinguished at a cost of $127 million. So he did what countless generations of outdoorsmen before him have done-he started a campfire. Placeholder for caption Photo by Chris Brinlee JrĮarly on the morning of August 17, 2013, Keith Matthew Emerald found himself cold and hungry following a hunt in a remote section of the Sierra Nevada, near Yosemite National Park.
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