Exceptional Events under the Clean Air Act (FIRE Act)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-01-30 — Smoke and Heat Ready Communities Act of 2025: cross-connection with wildfire-smoke-extreme-heat-preparedness: Wildfire smoke preparedness grants intersect with Clean Air Act exceptional-events treatment of smoke-driven NAAQS exceedances. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-04-27 — FIRE Act: 2025 — FIRE Act (HR6387) would amend the Clean Air Act to expand the ‘exceptional events’ definition to include human activities intended to mirror natural events (e.g., prescribed burns) and certain meteorological conditions, and direct EPA to revise how wildfire-risk mitigation actions are treated in air-quality data used for NAAQS exceedance determinations. (novelty: 3)