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Smoke Forecast for High Cascades Complex Fires (Including Blanket Creek, Broken Lookout, Spruce Lake) -- Aug. 22, 2017

Smoke Outlook:  High Cascades Complex                                 
Issued for: Tuesday August 22, 2017 
Air Resource Advisor: Jen Croft


Fire Activity:  Blanket is 76% contained at 5,889 acres, Broken Lookout added 475 acres, and Spruce Lake an additional 64 acres of its identified perimeter.  The remaining fires within the complex have been fully contained and are in mop up status.

Smoke:  Early morning conditions will include E-SE winds again, pushing the heavy overnight smoke towards Glide and Roseburg.  As the late day storm conditions move into the geographic area to the south, smoke conditions will become increasingly more hazy and shift their impacts back over towards Prospect, Diamond Lake, Crater Lake, and Chiloquin.   

Tourists at Crater Lake National Park can expect to see and smell smoke. Visitors should check for road closures and other announcements ahead of time.  Visitors can check https://www.nps.gov/crla/planyourvisit/conditions.htm for updates. 

Air Quality Outlook
Sites with air quality monitors
Site
Tuesday
August 22, 2017
Wednesday
August 23, 2017
Thursday
August 24, 2017
Notes for Tuesday’s forecast
Oakridge
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate

Medford
USG
USG
USG

Shady Cove
USG
USG
USG
Most severe impacts in the late afternoon/overnight
Prospect
Very Unhealthy
Very Unhealthy
Very Unhealthy
No relief today
Crater Lake NP (visitor center)
Unhealthy
Unhealthy
Unhealthy
Most severe impacts in the late afternoon/overnight
Chiloquin
Unhealthy
Unhealthy
Unhealthy
Most severe impacts in the late afternoon/overnight
Disclaimer: Conditions may change quickly. These predictions are based on anticipated weather and fire activity. AQI estimates for sites do not represent a full 24-hour time period.  Instead they reflect a period of time within the day where smoke impacts would be greatest.
AQI Index
Actions to Protect Yourself
Good
None

Moderate
Unusually sensitive people should consider reducing prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion.
Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups*- USG
People with heart or lung disease, children and older adults should reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion.  Everyone else should limit prolonged or heavy exertion.
Unhealthy           
The following groups should avoid all physical outdoor activity: People with heart or lung disease, children and older adults.  Everyone else should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion.
Very Unhealthy

Everyone should avoid any outdoor exertion; people with respiratory or heart disease, the elderly and children should remain indoors.
Hazardous
The following groups should remain indoors and keep activity levels low: People with heart or lung disease; children and older adults. Everyone else should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion

*Sensitive Groups include people with heart or lung disease, children, pregnant women and older adults



Oregon Smoke Blog:
Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality
Blanket Creek Fire Information