See what the smoke in Whitehorse is really doing to your lungs, then find cleaner air within a drive you choose.
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Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
Lakeside village south of Whitehorse with mountain air, cabins and highway access toward Skagway.
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Air quality · Whitehorse
Clear skies! Twelve hours out here is roughlyPM2.5 here is 0.2 µg/m³.Berkeley Earth: 22 µg/m³ for 24 h ≈ 1 cigarette.12 h outside ≈ 0.2/22 × 0.5 = <0.1 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 inWhitehorse 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 Whitehorse, 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.