Tens of thousands of people have evacuated their homes and at least two have died in raging fires sweeping across Los Angeles County Wednesday. Multiple wildfires spread by strong Santa Ana winds ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that Canadian wildfires are severely degrading air quality in New York City. With the AQI expected to exceed safe levels, health ...

Sam Delgado was a Future Perfect fellow writing about labor and food systems, public health, and literacy. The Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles have destroyed over 10,000 structures ...

Los Angeles has a handful of them, and their data is tracked and published on an hourly basis by the EPA. The agency runs calculations on the readings to determine the air quality index, or AQI ...

The AQI incorporates measurements of five different ... an air pollution expert at the University of California, Los Angeles. "They don't have the spatial density or indeed sometimes the temporal ...

As fires burn across Los Angeles County, spurring thousands of ... What is the Air Quality Index, or AQI? The Air Quality Index, often referred to as AQI, is a federal measure of the amount ...

There is lots of chatter regarding AQI numbers in the wake of the Southern ... Tom Carroll is a content creator for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2022, he created, produced ...

Residents in affected areas have been advised to stay indoors. A map shows the AQI around Los Angeles on January 9. Red areas indicate "unhealthy" air quality and orange is "unhealthy for ...

AirNow suggests that the air quality index (AQI) around Los Angeles was moderate, at 64, at the time of publication. AQI uses a scale from 0 to 500, with readings below 50 considered "Good" and ...

Thursday morning Los Angeles had an AQI of 182, considered “unhealthy,” and currently among the worst in the world. The smoke was so dense that it was captured in satellite photos. This ...

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 ...