Personal wood smoke stories

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

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

What’s your wood smoke story?

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

1 Stories total.

House reeks of smoke

…Long after he stops burning for the season, my house, coated in smoke, reeks.

Winter in Tasmania

…I have just bought a $3,000 purifier that I cannot afford but I cannot endure the next 5 months without one…

Serious health issues and wood smoke in New Zealand

…I can’t take much more of this! My husband died from a brain tumor and I have had breast cancer.

“Heavily exposed daily” to OWB smoke

…Across the street 700' away was an OWB which was just starting to operate. The homeowner modified his burner to not only burn wood but also waste oil.…

A Defra-approved stove worsening asthma

His comment when we told him a family member had asthma and the smoke was making it worse, was “that's not my problem.”…

COPD and a wood-burning neighbor

I can’t have my windows open and my whole area smells of burning wood…

Smoke in a Welsh village

…When we came here, the air was fresh. Now, more and more of our neighbours have taken to wood burning…

Made ill in Toronto

This job entailed exposure to quite a few houses with wood burning fireplaces or outdoor fire pits/brush burning…

Wood-burning restaurant in Toronto

The smell and noxious smoke are persistent every day 24/7 — in a very densely populated area.

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Is your neighbor’s wood burning affecting you? We want to hear about it!

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

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