California Air Pollution & Smoke Maps

The EPA has published a handy ask which provides advice on how you lot tin minimize your peril from fume as well as air pollution inwards California. Fire as well as Your Health suggests that you lot avoid the fume equally much equally possible. If recommended you lot should rest indoors, run your air conditioner (if you lot accept one), as well as pay attending to local air character reports.

The Environmental Protection Agency's AirNow website has a map of the USA showing the latest Air Quality Index scores across the whole country. The map shows that huge areas of the province are currently experiencing unsafe levels of air pollution. However the static map is a picayune difficult to read. You should hence cry to the Current Air Quality Index (AQI) Conditions for Californian Cities which provides a listing of the latest AQI ratings for all the major urban centers inwards California.


The New York Time's Tracking the Dangerous Smoke Plume map uses the latest estimates of surface-level fume from the National Oceanic as well as Atmospheric Administration. The map is existence updated every 6 hours. You tin persuasion the same surface-level fume estimates on NOAA's interactive map, NOAA HDRR Smoke. NOAA's map equally good allows you lot to persuasion the latest vertically integrated fume forecasts as well as burn detection data.

NASA's basis Observatory has released an animated map showing how dark carbon from the Camp Fire has been moving across Northern California. In Camp Fire Spreads Foul Air inwards California NASA explains that dark carbon is specially harmful equally the particles inwards dark carbon are small-scale plenty to larn inwards the lungs as well as bloodstream.