Air Quality during and after the 2025 Los Angeles, California Fires and the Utility of Potassium as a Fire Tracer

Дата публикации: 07-10-2026 00:00:00

Abstract Wildland–urban interface fires are becoming more frequent, and their impacts on adjacent urban centers are increasing. In January 2025, the Eaton and Palisades fires burned over 18,000 structures and 15,000 hectares of urban and wildlands and blanketed parts of Southern California, USA, in smoke and dust. Here, we combine hourly and multihour metals, particulate matter, and gas data from two sites with meteorological and fire spatial extent data and several statistical methods to understand the fire impacts on air quality. The primary receptor site, in Huntington Park, about 28 km from the Eaton fire, was intermittently directly downwind. The smoke increased airborne lead concentrations by up to 250 times its background, to about 0.2% of PM2.5 mass; arsenic, chlorine, bromine, and copper were also highly elevated. Concentrations of elements associated with resuspended soil began to rise when high winds started immediately prior to fire ignition and decayed once the winds...

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