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NEW YORK CITY – Canadian wildfire smoke<\/a> is sticking around for Friday in New York City, with health officials urging New Yorkers to limit strenuous and prolonged outdoor activities and to stick to air-conditioned spaces as much as possible.<\/p>\n JUMP TO: LIVE NYC MAP<\/a> l LIVE US MAP<\/a> l AIR QUALITY INDEX<\/a> l LIVE UPDATES<\/a><\/p>\n On Thursday, state officials distributed tens of thousands of face masks designed to filter out 95% of tiny airborne particles, including dust and smog, at the city\u2019s Penn Station and Grand Central transit hubs and other major locations.<\/p>\n Local perspective:<\/p>\n This map from AirNow.gov<\/a> shows the current air quality in the New York City area. Click here<\/a> if you’re having trouble viewing the embedded map.<\/p>\n To view the full map, click here<\/a><\/p>\n To view a map of smoke coverage, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n Take a look at the map below to see where wildfire smoke is heaviest and air quality conditions are at their worst.<\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n The numbers show how clean or polluted the air is and stand as a guideline for outdoor activities that day, especially for sensitive groups.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n For today’s air quality index forecast for New York state, click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n To check the air quality in your area, click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2023: Canadian wildfire smoke pours into Northeast <\/p>\n In June 2023<\/a>, winds blew smoke from unchecked Canadian wildfires into the region, which led the Department of Environmental Conservation to issue an Air Quality Health Advisory for all five boroughs.<\/p>\n A view of the hazy city during bad air quality as smoke of Canadian wildfires brought in by wind. (Photo by Selcuk Acar\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) <\/p>\n According to IQAir.com<\/a>, New York City had the world’s worst air quality<\/a> of any major city in the world back on June 7, with an AQI rating over 350, more than twice as high as Dubai.\u00a0<\/p>\n Have feedback or a news tip? Submit here! Weather<\/a>New York City<\/a>Health<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY – Canadian wildfire smoke is sticking around for Friday in New York City, with health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,2128,27978,43762,734,55],"class_list":["post-134202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NYC](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/kd4in46cb3en5q7p.jpg\")
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0-50: Good, with little to no risk of pollution.51-100: Moderate and really is not a risk to anyone unless they’re unusually sensitive to poor air quality. The national weather service will often still issue an air quality alert when we’re in this range.101-150: This is a risk for sensitive groups and people with asthma.151-200: A risk for everyone and people who are sensitive are at risk for more severe complications.201-300: Very unhealthy and a risk for everyone.301+: Emergency conditions. New York City air quality index <\/p>\n