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    Pollution from California’s 2020 wildfires likely offset decades of air quality gains

    LOS ANGELES — It was a nightmare fire season that California won’t soon forget. As more than 9,000 wildfires raged across the landscape, a canopy of smoke shrouded much of the state and drifted as far away as Boston. All told, more than 4.3 million acres would be incinerated and more than 30 people killed. Economic losses would total more than $19 billion. But the damage caused by California’s ...
    by Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times Jun 17, 2022 4 minutes
    Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the Los Angeles Basin in a view from the Griffith Observatory on Sept. 17, 2020, in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — It was a nightmare fire season that California won’t soon forget.

    As more than 9,000 wildfires raged across the landscape, a canopy of smoke shrouded much of the state and drifted as far away as Boston.

    All told, more than 4.3 million acres would be incinerated and more than 30 people killed. Economic losses would total more than $19 billion.

    But the damage caused by California’s 2020 wildfire season is still coming into focus in some respects, particularly when it comes to the air pollution it generated.

    In an analysis published this week in the annual Air Quality Life Index, researchers found that wildfire smoke likely offset decades of state and federal antipollution efforts,

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