LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Air Quality Management District has issued another air quality alert in response to continuing unhealthy conditions in the air basin due to fires around the region.
Air Pollution Control Officer Doug Gearhart said that due to significant fire activity this week, all of Lake County is forecast to have “unhealthy for sensitive groups” to “unhealthy” air quality through Sunday as smoke settles into the area.
Gearhart said smoke from the Glass fire in Napa and Sonoma counties, the August Complex, and other fires burning in California and Oregon will continue to impact Lake County in the coming weeks.
Current conditions are degraded from the Glass fire and the regional wind pattern transporting smoke into the Lake County Air Basin, he said.
There is a potential for periods of improved air quality and overall improvement as wind patterns change, Gearhart said.
He said early forecast information indicated that a wind shift that started Friday night and continuing into Saturday may push the smoke from the Glass fire out the air basin, but increased activity in the August Complex fire may contribute smoke into the air basin due to the wind direction.
Up-to-date air quality conditions for Lake County can be found at PurpleAir.
New air quality alert issued through Sunday due to unhealthy conditions
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