A clearer day near Ontario

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Terrace Bay

#1

~3 h 15 min driveOntarioAQI 130 / Unhealthy for sensitive groups· PM2.5 37.6 µg/m³

≈ 0.9 vs 1.1 🚬 at homesave 0.2

▼ 9.9 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Thunder Bay right now

Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT

North-shore town above Aguasabon Falls with Superior beach access and motel lodging.

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Rossport

#2

~2 h 45 min driveOntarioAQI 132 / Unhealthy for sensitive groups· PM2.5 43.3 µg/m³

≈ 1.0 vs 1.1 🚬 at homesave 0.1

▼ 4.2 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Thunder Bay right now

Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT

Tiny island-sheltered harbour village on Lake Superior, a favourite calm-air stop on the north shore.

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Nipigon

#3

~1 h 45 min driveOntarioAQI 166 / Unhealthy· PM2.5 54.8 µg/m³

≈ 1.2 vs 1.1 🚬 at homeabout the same

▲ Air is currently worse here than in Thunder Bay

Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT

Where the Nipigon River meets Superior’s north shore, under some of Ontario’s biggest cliffs.

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47.5 µg/m³PM2.5 in Thunder Bay right now
AQI 152 / UnhealthyAQHI 11+ — Very high risk (Thunder Bay)Latest observation Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT

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Standing outside for 12 hours in Thunder 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 Thunder 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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