Smoke !!!

[Scott Winners]

I started with commercial air filtration units, but the replacement prices for filter media sent me to the drawing board.

I agree with Alan a quad of MERV 13 furnace filters and a 20" box fan ( plus some duct tape) should do the trick for most of you. Both of "Corsi-Rosenthal box" and "Comparetto Cube" should provide plentiful internet search engine hits.

Shopping the 3M Filtrete line, both the 1900 and 2200 series filters meet or exceed MERV 13 without spending stupid money. At Team Orange Home Store, you are looking for "level 10."

Good luck and best wishes.

[Ole Anderson]

You can get a map of North America that shows the air quality index for areas all over. https://fire.airnow.gov/

That map is very interesting. You can zoom in or out as much as you want, all the way to all of north America. And you can click on an individual fire which, in many cases, will give you details about the fire and efforts to fight it.

[Edward Weber]

I know this is new to many of you but out here we've had the CAL-Fire website for many years.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/
This is an invaluable tool when things go wrong. along with an AQI map. In my area, I use Spare The Air
https://www.sparetheair.com/

The last few years, many of us started out the day, not by checking the weather like normal folks but checking the AQI then Cal-Fire and only then, if we were actually going to venture outside, the weather.
Stay safe everyone.

[Brian Tymchak]

You can get a map of North America that shows the air quality index for areas all over. https://fire.airnow.gov/

Thanks for that link Lee!

[Patty Hann]

And for fires all over the US.... https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/