See what the smoke in Minneapolis is really doing to your lungs, then find cleaner air within a drive you choose.
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▼ 10.9 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Minneapolis right now
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
Nebraska capital with broad lodging options a short drive southwest of Omaha.
▼ 9.9 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Minneapolis right now
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
A major Nebraska city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
▼ 2.9 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Minneapolis right now
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
Southern Minnesota city with a large hotel inventory and a separate live air-quality reading from Minneapolis.
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Minneapolis
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
A major Wisconsin city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Minneapolis
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
A major Illinois city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Minneapolis
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
Lake Superior port with shoreline hotels and air shaped by the world’s largest freshwater lake.
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Minneapolis
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
A major Ontario city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Minneapolis
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
Where the Nipigon River meets Superior’s north shore, under some of Ontario’s biggest cliffs.
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Air quality · Minneapolis
Phew. Twelve hours out here is roughlyPM2.5 here is 13.4 µg/m³.Berkeley Earth: 22 µg/m³ for 24 h ≈ 1 cigarette.12 h outside ≈ 13.4/22 × 0.5 = 0.3 cigarettes.A health-impact equivalence, not literal smoking.See how we work it out →
That is the fine-particle pollution you'd breathe standing outside all day inMinneapolis right now, turned into a number your body already understands.
A health-impact equivalence, not literal smoking: Berkeley Earth puts a full day at 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5 at about one cigarette.How we work this out
Smoke plumes are patchy and move with changing winds, terrain and weather. Nearby lakefront, coastal and higher-elevation places can be much clearer than Minneapolis, but no direction is reliably cleaner. That is why this list is recalculated from live PM2.5 readings every hour instead of publishing a fixed escape route. If everything within three hours is smoky, the rankings will say so. Sometimes the honest answer is to stay inside with a filter running.