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ArticleScientific data2019

A dataset on human perception of and response to wildfire smoke.

Mariah Fowler, Arash Modaresi Rad, Stephen Utych, Andrew Adams, Sanazsadat Alamian, Jennifer Pierce, Philip Dennison, John T Abatzoglou, Amir AghaKouchak, Luke Montrose and 1 more

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Article in Scientific data, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  3. Perceptions of and Responses to Wildfire Smoke Among New York State Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  5. Assessing Perception of Wildfires and Related Impacts among Adult Residents of Southern California.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Mariah FowlerDepartment of Civil Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 73725, US.
Arash Modaresi RadDepartment of Civil Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 73725, US.
Stephen UtychSchool of Public Service, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 83725, US.
Andrew AdamsDepartment of Civil Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 73725, US.
Sanazsadat AlamianCollege of Business and Economics, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 83725, US.
Jennifer PierceDepartment of Geosciences, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 83725, US.
Philip DennisonDepartment of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112, US.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0241-1917
John T AbatzoglouDepartment of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 83844, US.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7599-9750
Amir AghaKouchakDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California, 92697, US.
Luke MontroseDepartment of Community and Environmental Health, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 83725, US.
Mojtaba SadeghDepartment of Civil Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 73725, US. mojtabasadegh@boisestate.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-5445

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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Environmental ExposureSmokeWildfiresHumansIdahoSurveys and QuestionnairesSmoke

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PMID31649275
PMCPMC6813346

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