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Key Findings: Survey Data <br />Indoor Burning Practices <br />19% of Kittitas County residents use some type of solid fuel <br />burning appliance as their primary heat source. <br />o Roughly half of these individuals burn wood in a freestanding wood <br />stove. <br />o At the time of this survey, one fifth of these individuals report that <br />their wood stoves are uncertified. <br />o 94% of users who burn fuel for their primary heat source burn the <br />majority of their fuel in the winter months (which follows the trend <br />of secondary fuel burners as well). <br />o 46% (almost half) of them don’t understand what the air quality <br />related phrases “PM2.5” or “fine particulate matter” mean. <br />o One third reported having a secondary fuel burning appliance as a <br />supplemental heat source to their primary, which means these <br />individuals have more than one appliance on site.