Contributing: Eduardo Cuevas, John Bacon, Michelle Maltais, USA TODAY This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Los Angeles air quality and smoke maps: See latest AQI numbers in Southern ...

After fires destroyed multiple neighborhoods across Los Angeles County, many residents looked up to find blue, smoke-free skies this week. The Air Quality Index (AQI) — which measures the ...

The map pulls data from air monitors, hundreds of pollution sensors, and forecast models to provide real-time air quality index (AQI) readings for more than 1,000 locations. Los Angeles’ air ...

As fires burned in Los Angeles this year, newer toxin monitors found contaminants that aren’t measured by standard methods.

In fact, the AQI could be in a healthy range ... operates about 35 air monitoring stations across nearly 11,000 square miles ...