Originally Posted by
MinnMan
Yeah, thinking about that. I don't know that the indoor air quality is really much better, though. Old house without central air (and central air doesn't filter for pm2.5 anyway) and so windows are open in some rooms.
Then again, when I go outside right now, it smells of woodsmoke, but it doesn't smell that way indoors. So there is some difference. I guess the particles settle in the stagnant air inside a house.
On the worst days last Fire Season we kept the house closed up - not obsessively, of course, because we have dogs. But all the windows shut. And yeah, the particles do settle out over time. I also kept a sharp eye on local air quality monitors on Purple Air, so I could see plumes coming before they arrived, and act before the bad air got in.