CURRENT AIR QUALITY

Current Air Quality Information can be found at the links below. Some Air Districts also provide air quality information: click an air district link on the right.

• U.S. EPA- AirNow Fire and Smoke Map - Download the AirNow app at Apple App Store or Google Play Store
• Learn how to use the Fire and Smoke Map with this Video
• Downloadable business card for the Fire and Smoke Map

• California Air Resources Board's Breathwell Info is in PST = Pacific Standard Time

• Spare the Air-Fires: Current Conditions for the Sacramento Region

• PurpleAir Map - Sensors that are good for knowing particle/smoke impacts
• Clarity Map - Sensors that are good for knowing particle/smoke impacts
• Davis Weatherlink Air Quality Map - Sensors that are good for knowing particle/smoke impacts

• National Weather Service Air Quality Forecast Guide Move the arrows to find your area
  
• National Weather Service Heat Risk Prototype Map

Air Quality Index (AQI) Descriptions

The Air Quality Index (AQI) Colors are consistent, the numbers used may be either the Air Quality Index numbers or the actual PM 2.5 or ozone concentration numbers dependent on the website air quality information used.

Category	Meaning	Actions to Protect Yourself
Good	Air quality is satisfactory and poses little or no health risk.	None.
Moderate	Air Quality is acceptable for most. There may be moderate health concern for a small number of sensitive people.	Unusually Sensitive people should consider reducing prolonged or heavy outdoor recreation.
Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups(USG)	Increasing likelihood of respiratory symptoms in sensitive individuals, aggravation of heart or lung disease and premature mortality in persons with cardiopulmonary disease and the elderly.	People with heart or lung disease, children and older adults should avoid all physical outdoor activity.
Unhealthy	Increasing aggravation of heart or lung disease and premature mortality in persons with cardiopulmonary disease and the elderly; increased respiratory effects in general population.	People with heart or lung disease, older adults, and children should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion. Everyone else should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion.
Very Unhealthy	Increasing aggravation of heart or lung disease and premature mortality in persons with cardiopulmonary disease and the elderly; increased respiratory effects in general population.	People with heart or lung disease, older adults, and children should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion. Everyone else should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion.
Hazardous	Significant aggravation of heart or lung disease and premature mortality in persons with cardiopulmonary disease and the elderly; significant increase in respiratory effects in general population.	People with heart or lung disease, older adults, and children should avoid all physical activity outdoors. Everyone else should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion.

WORLD:

• SMOG BLOG - Research by the Atmospheric Lidar Group at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on understanding atmospheric chemistry and physics in the troposphere with laser remote sensing technology.

CANADA:

• Canada Smoke Forecasts
• Canada's Wildfire Smoke Prediction System (Firework)