This city currently has the worst air quality in America

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1. Some of the worst air quality in the world can be found Tuesday in places such as Indonesia, Qatar, Cambodia — and Kansas.

   The flow of [Canadian wildfire smoke](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/13/canadian-wildfire-smoke-minnesota-wisconsin/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3) into the Midwest means that Kansas City, Kan., has the distinction of having the worst air quality in the United States.

   [According to IQAir](https://www.iqair.com/us/usa), Code Orange air quality — considered unhealthy for sensitive groups — stretches across the Midwest, including Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Air quality alerts are in effect across northern Iowa.

   Other U.S. cities under Code Orange conditions include Kansas City, Mo.; Lincoln and Omaha, Neb.; and Des Moines, according to IQAir.

   The [wildfire smoke is coming from western Canada](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/13/canadian-wildfire-smoke-minnesota-wisconsin/?itid=lk_inline_manual_8), where, for a second year in a row, fire season is off to an active and early start. Hundreds of fires have burned across hundreds of thousands of acres in recent days. As the smoke spread southward and eastward Monday, parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin were under air quality alerts.

   Read more here: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/14/kansas-city-air-quality-canada-wildfire-smoke/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/14/kansas-city-air-quality-canada-wildfire-smoke/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com)

2. Can confirm, the air sucked ass in Kansas yesterday. Smelled like day old campfire

3. Honestly they should be training more wildland firefighters