Whitney
#1≈ 0.1 vs 0.2 🚬 at homesave 0.1
▼ 3.9 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than North Bay right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Hamlet at Algonquin Park’s East Gate, with lodges and cabins on the park’s quieter side.
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Mattawa
#2≈ 0.1 vs 0.2 🚬 at homesave 0.1
▼ 2.2 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than North Bay right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Historic voyageur town where the Mattawa meets the Ottawa River, between two provincial parks.
Bancroft
#3≈ 0.1 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Mineral-country town on the York River between Hastings highlands and lake country.
Little Current (Manitoulin Island)
#4≈ 0.1 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Manitoulin’s main harbour town — the world’s largest freshwater island, surrounded by Huron’s North Channel.
Killarney
#5≈ 0.1 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Remote village beside Killarney Park’s white quartzite ridges, on the north channel of Georgian Bay.
Haliburton
#6≈ 0.1 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Highlands village surrounded by hundreds of lakes and a large cottage-rental market.
Pembroke
#7≈ 0.2 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Ottawa Valley hub on the wide Ottawa River, the jumping-off point for Whitewater country.
Greater Sudbury
#8≈ 0.2 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in North Bay
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
A major Ontario city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
Huntsville
#9≈ 0.4 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in North Bay
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Muskoka’s biggest town, ringed by lakes and resorts on the edge of Algonquin Park.
Bracebridge
#10≈ 0.4 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in North Bay
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Waterfall town in the heart of Muskoka with a deep bench of cottages and resorts.
Gravenhurst
#11≈ 0.4 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in North Bay
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Gateway to Muskoka on Lake Muskoka’s steamship wharf, the closest cottage country to the GTA.
Parry Sound
#12≈ 0.5 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in North Bay
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Deep-water port on Georgian Bay’s island-studded coast, with open-bay air off the sound.
Orillia
#13≈ 0.7 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in North Bay
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Sunshine City between Lakes Couchiching and Simcoe, with a full range of waterfront stays.
Temagami
#14≈ 0.7 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in North Bay
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Old-growth pine and deep-lake country on Lake Temagami, with classic Northern lodges.
Midland
#15≈ 0.8 vs 0.2 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in North Bay
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Harbour town on Georgian Bay’s 30,000 Islands shore, with bay cruises and shoreline trails.
7.7 µg/m³PM2.5 in North Bay right now
AQI 74 / ModerateAQHI 4 — Moderate risk (North Bay)Latest observation Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
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0.2cigarettes
Standing outside for 12 hours in North Bay today is roughly like smoking that many cigarettes, going by the current fine-particle pollution.
An equivalence for health impact, 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 →
Why live rankings?
Smoke plumes are patchy and move with changing winds, terrain and weather. Nearby lakefront, coastal and higher-elevation places can be much clearer than North Bay, 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.
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