Smoke from Canadian wildfires has impacted the air quality throughout United States, including in the northern High Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes, southern Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast. This has ...

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After wildfires burn through urban areas, publicly available air quality assessments may not adequately warn people about harmful air pollutants. Expanding today’s air quality metrics requires more ...

Smoke from wildfires in Canada has drifted into the U.S., prompting air quality alerts for Americans as it continues to spread. But when officials and forecasters classify a city's air as "unhealthy" ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s air-quality health advisory in response to wildfire smoke wafting down from Canada is based on the Air Quality Index, or AQI. The AQI was ...

There’s smoke and ash outside. You feel like you’re inhaling tiny dust particles. You check your weather app for the air quality. But what do the numbers and colors mean? The Air Quality Index is a ...

Unprecedented wildfires out west have shown proven to have drastic, far-reaching impacts. Smoke from the west coast can travel hundreds of miles, all the way to the Midwest, causing our skies to look ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the current wildfire smoke conditions in the U.S. The original story was published Jan. 8, 2025. Smoke from Canadian wildfires continued to prompt ...