Environmental Impacts

List of the impacts

Animals

• In the months after a fire, wildlife populations can suffer substantial losses due to habitat alteration and destruction.

Your Lungs

• Smoke can have negative short and long-term health effects. Exposure to relatively low smoke concentrations over many years can contribute to respiratory problems.

The Community

• Wildfires impact communities in multiple ways, from closing natural areas that residents and tourists visit to damaging homes and harming residents or firefighters.