Alaska air quality today
Across the 2 Alaska metros we measure, air is worst right now in Fairbanks at AQI 54 (Moderate) and cleanest in Anchorage at AQI 6. That is a 48-point spread inside one state — a state-level number would hide it, which is why this page does not publish one.
Every Alaska metro we track
| # | Metro | AQI | UV now | Dominant | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairbanksno page yet | 54Moderate | 0.7 | PM2.5 | |
| 2 | Anchorageno page yet | 6Good | 0.5 | PM10 |
Sun over Alaska today
The strongest UV in Alaska today is 2.8 (Moderate) in Fairbanks, arriving around 2pm local time. The mildest of the 2 metros we model here peaks at 1.5 in Anchorage.
What stands behind these Alaska numbers
2 of the 2 metros here report from a named regulatory monitor — Anchorage, Fairbanks. The dominant pollutant across Alaska today is PM10 in some metros, PM2.5 in others.
We track 2 metropolitan areas in Alaska, not the whole state, and none of them has its own page yet — a metro page ships only after thirty days of our own history, and that clock is running. There is no state-wide average here on purpose: averaging 2 metros into one figure would invent a value for all the ground between them. How we measure, and what we refuse to estimate →
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