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A dataset on human perception of and response to wildfire smoke

Wildfire smoke presents a growing threat in the Western U.S.; and human health, transportation, and economic systems in growing western communities suffer due to increasingly severe and widespread fires. While modelling wildfire activity and associated wildfire smoke distributions have substantially...

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Published in:Scientific data 2019-10, Vol.6 (1), p.229-10, Article 229
Main Authors: Fowler, Mariah, Modaresi Rad, Arash, Utych, Stephen, Adams, Andrew, Alamian, Sanazsadat, Pierce, Jennifer, Dennison, Philip, Abatzoglou, John T., AghaKouchak, Amir, Montrose, Luke, Sadegh, Mojtaba
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Summary:Wildfire smoke presents a growing threat in the Western U.S.; and human health, transportation, and economic systems in growing western communities suffer due to increasingly severe and widespread fires. While modelling wildfire activity and associated wildfire smoke distributions have substantially improved, understanding how people perceive and respond to emerging smoke hazards has received little attention. Understanding and incorporating human perceptions of threats from wildfire smoke is critical, as decision-makers need such information to mitigate smoke-related hazards. We surveyed 614 randomly selected people (in-person) across the Boise Metropolitan Area in Idaho and 1,623 Boise State University affiliates (online), collecting information about their level of outside activity during smoke event(s), knowledge about the source of air quality information and effective messaging preference, perception of wildfire smoke as a hazard, and smoke-related health experiences. This relatively large dataset provides a novel perspective of people’s perception of smoke hazards, and provides crucial policy-relevant information to decision-makers. Dataset is available to the public and can be used to address a wide range of research questions. Measurement(s) Perception • response to Technology Type(s) survey method Factor Type(s) hazard condition • age • sex • income • education Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo sapiens Sample Characteristic - Environment wildfire • smoke Sample Characteristic - Location Ada County Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9938252
ISSN:2052-4463
2052-4463
DOI:10.1038/s41597-019-0251-y