Human Mobility to Parks under the COVID-19 Pandemic and Wildfire Seasons in the Western and Central United States

Abstract

The year 2020 saw the confluence of two major crises, that is, the COVID-19 pandemic and the extensive, severe wildfires in August-September, impacting people's health and wellbeing in western and central United States. The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), commonly known as COV-ID-19, was initially detected in Wuhan, China, and has widely spread across the globe (Zhu et al., 2020). On