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Oregon county records highest US wildfire smoke death rate

A rural Oregon county has the highest wildfire smoke death rate in the United States, forcing residents to adapt to chronic hazardous air and mounting grief as climate-driven fires intensify.

‘You can taste the ash’: surviving in America’s wildfire smoke capital
Oregon county records highest US wildfire smoke death rate
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A rural Oregon county has the highest wildfire smoke death rate in the United States, forcing residents to adapt to chronic hazardous air and mounting grief as climate-driven fires intensify.