{"id":12985,"date":"2025-02-18T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12985"},"modified":"2025-01-01T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T17:24:54","slug":"airnows-forest-fire-and-smoke-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12985","title":{"rendered":"Airnow&#8217;s forest fire and smoke map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AirNow website is not only good for getting air quality measurements for your area, but also checking in on the current smoke and fire maps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadly, this is now just as required checking as weather information when going camping or hiking in the Pacific Northwest. A trend that is almost certainly going to get worse due to <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7449\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7449\">decades of misguided over-conservation forest management<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"605\" data-attachment-id=\"12986\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=12986\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/01\/fireairnow.png?fit=1215%2C1148&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1215,1148\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fireairnow\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/01\/fireairnow.png?fit=640%2C605&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/01\/fireairnow.png?resize=640%2C605&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/01\/fireairnow.png?resize=1024%2C968&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/01\/fireairnow.png?resize=300%2C283&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/01\/fireairnow.png?resize=768%2C726&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/01\/fireairnow.png?resize=286%2C270&amp;ssl=1 286w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/01\/fireairnow.png?w=1215&amp;ssl=1 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AirNow website is not only good for getting air quality measurements for your area, but also checking in on the current smoke and fire maps. Sadly, this is now just as required checking as weather information when going camping or hiking in the Pacific Northwest. A trend that is almost certainly going to get worse due to decades of misguided over-conservation forest management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3nr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12987,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12985\/revisions\/12987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}