For the next several days, there will be increased wildfire smoke in the King County area. Please take steps to prepare yourself, friends, and family. It will also get into the upper 80s and 90s this week according to the National Weather Service. The following links provide additional information and tips on staying safe.

• Public Health Seattle King County – smoke preparedness tips on their Community Communications Network blog
• King County Wildfire Smoke website
• Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (8/3/26 press release – Wildfire Smoke Alert for the Puget Sound Region)
• King County Burn Ban and Statewide Emergency Burn Ban
• AirNow Fire & Smoke Map
• King County Wildfire website, including Wildfire Ready Toolkit

Clean air and/or cooling centers available:

• King County Regional Homelessness Authority (for people experiencing homelessness)- (Aug. 4-7 clean air and Aug 4-8 cooling)
• City of Auburn – various locations
• Federal Way Community Center (Aug 3-4 clean air and Aug 5-6 cooling)

Due to wildfire smoke, National Night Out (Tuesday, Aug. 4) events may be re-located, rescheduled, or canceled in your King County city. Please contact each city directly for more information. Below are the various changes:

• City of Bellevue – canceled
• City of Carnation – moved to Tolt Middle School gym
• City of Duvall – canceled
• City of Snoqualmie – canceled
• City of Shoreline – rescheduled to Aug. 25