Localized harm

Personal wood smoke stories

Smoke pours out of the chimney of a yellow house next to some trees.

Real people experience real harm and a reduced quality of life due to wood smoke pollution.

If you are affected by someone else’s wood burning, you are not alone.

How is wood smoke affecting you?

Neighbors of wood burners have shared the following stories with us. Use the form below to share your own wood smoke story.

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1 Stories total.

Suffocating fumes from “smokeless fuel”

My story does not involve wood smoke, but fumes from the burning of a so called smokeless fuel.

Surrounded and sickened

Even when I am in the house I experience the symptoms because the smoke penetrates the house…

Where are the authorities?

How can this be allowed when we know it is so bad for our health and wellbeing.

We were made so sick

There was so much stress and angst with the neighbour with the chimney near our bedroom window…

Breathless and traumatized

I can’t breathe due to my asthma and allergies… everything smells like wood smoke…

Wood heater nightmare in Melbourne

Our lives have never been the same since the next door neighbour installed a wood heater…

The “inalienable right to pollute” in Shoreline

Take a walk on a clear winter day in Shoreline, Washington and you most likely end up coughing and wheezing.

Toxic smoke everywhere

…the smoke is still continuing. It even creeps into the house with everything closed. They run this heater 24/7.

Moving brought no relief in Melbourne

…we have endured years of wood smoke causing long term serious health conditions.

Tell your story

Does your neighbor’s wood burning affect you? We want to hear about it!  

Sharing your wood smoke story helps to increase awareness of the problem.

We ask for your name and email address so we can contact you about your story. We’ll only publish your name if you tell us to. Email addresses are never published.

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