Fig. 6: Smoke damages per capita by age and race/ethnicity.
a Population breakdown by age group for each race/ethnicity. Subpopulation breakdowns consider totals across the contiguous U.S56. Pie charts represent youngest to oldest age group, reading counterclockwise from the top. b Damages per capita overall and by age group for each race/ethnicity. Damages are in 2020 U.S. dollars. y-axes are log-transformed and include breaks from 0 to 10 $ per person. Ages 1–29 experience no damage18,58. Dashed black lines represent damages per capita across all populations: $308 per person for wildfire smoke and $313 per person for prescribed burn smoke. White diamonds represent damages per capita across all populations within each race/ethnicity subgroup. Baseline risk (mortality rates) are differentiated by race/ethnicity. Relative risk is not differentiated by race/ethnicity. a, b Data characterize 2017. Subpopulations other than non-Hispanic or Latino White are not mutually exclusive. All racial subgroups except non-Hispanic or Latino White include persons of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity. Hispanic or Latino ethnicity includes persons of all racial subgroups except White. See Supplementary Tables 22 and 23 for fire smoke damages per capita by race/ethnicity and age and disparities within age groups, respectively. Plotting uses the ggplot2 R package118.
