# Wildfire Smoke

Source: https://cpolar.tech/contaminants/wildfire-smoke/

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Wildfire Smoke carries a charge — C-POLAR 
 Wildfire smoke is spreading and deadly, and it's electrically charged 
 Wildfire smoke reaches nearly every American every year , and is linked to about 41,000 deaths , projected to reach 71,000 by 2050. It's mostly ultrafine particles , and many carry an electric charge . An EPA study found the filter the U.S. government recommends loses 95% of its cleaning power after just 10 milligrams of smoke.
 30 to 50 nm
 A Human Hair: 70,000 nm

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Three years of Wildfire Smoke 
 Smoke doesn't stay near the fire 
 In the summer of 2025, Canadian wildfire smoke gave Minneapolis some of the worst air in the world and put much of the Midwest under alerts. Most years, it reaches nearly every American .
 Smoke density
 Lighter 
 Heavier 
 Clean 
 ~35 µg/m³ 
 75+ µg/m³ 
 NOAA HMS smoke · EPA AirNow 
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Wildfire Smoke — Health Impact 
 What the smoke does inside you 
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The filter quits when the smoke arrives 
 The filter quits 
 when the smoke arrives
 ~95%
 of its cleaning power, gone after about an hour of smoke.
 Federal agencies tell Americans to fight wildfire smoke with a MERV-13 filter, but that rating is measured on a clean, brand-new filter.
 Much of its filtering comes from a built-in electrostatic charge, and smoke strips that charge as it builds up. In an EPA study, a MERV-13 air cleaner lost about 95% of its cleaning power after just 10 milligrams of smoke, about an hour's worth.
 Harvard's Healthy Buildings team reviewed the same data and urged households to replace the filter after a wildfire.

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The NanoFlashing Air Filter captures real wildfire smoke 
 The NanoFlashing Air Filter 
 captures real wildfire smoke 
 down to the ultrafine particle 
 75.4%
 captured in one pass, real wildfire smoke
 >90%
 of the ultrafine 16–34 nm particles
 The NanoFlashing Air Filter has a permanent positive polarity, a fixed positive charge carried by the filter itself. Wildfire smoke is electrically charged, so the filter captures and retains it, through a physical mechanism, with no power and no chemicals.