{"id":949174,"date":"2026-07-21T07:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/949174\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:33:31","slug":"what-is-the-air-quality-today-search-to-check-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/949174\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the air quality today? Search to check near you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires is impacting air quality in the United States from the Midwest to the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Particulate matter levels in the Chicago area by midday Thursday had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/07\/16\/wildfire-smoke-air-quality-illinois\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reached<\/a> an index of 395 on a scale of 500, which is considered hazardous for the general public. Air quality was even worse in the North Shore suburbs, where Wilmette and Winnetka registered at 565.<\/p>\n<p>Search by address below to see the latest air quality ratings nationwide and near you.<\/p>\n<p>Good air quality is designated in green, moderate marked in yellow. Orange represents air quality unhealthy for at risk persons. Red represents unhealthy, purple very unhealthy. Hazardous is represented as dark purple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires is impacting air quality in the United States from the Midwest to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":949175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[12986,63842,960,378051,1599,5386,1818,23492],"class_list":["post-949174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-air-quality","tag-canadian-wildfires","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-air-quality","tag-forecast","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-smoke"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}