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Kansas air quality today

Updated · LIVE · 2 metros tracked

Across the 2 Kansas metros we measure, air is worst right now in Wichita at AQI 54 (Moderate) and cleanest in Overland Park at AQI 39.

Every Kansas metro we track

#MetroAQIUV nowDominant
1 Wichitano page yet 54Moderate 6 O3
2 Overland Parkno page yet 39Good 4.7 O3

Sun over Kansas today

The strongest UV in Kansas today is 8 (Very High) in Wichita, arriving around 2pm local time. The mildest of the 2 metros we model here peaks at 5.6 in Overland Park.

8 Wichita 2pm5.6 Overland Park 2pm

UV is modelled, not measured — unlike the AQI above it, which comes off an instrument. How we handle UV →

What stands behind these Kansas numbers

2 of the 2 metros here report from a named regulatory monitor — Wichita, Kansas City. The dominant pollutant across Kansas today is O3.

We track 2 metropolitan areas in Kansas, 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 →

Neighbouring states

Smoke and inversions do not stop at a state line, so when Kansas looks wrong the answer is often next door.

ColoradoMissouriNebraskaOklahoma
Worst air in the US right nowHow Kansas compares against every metro we track What the number meansEPA bands, and where “unhealthy for everyone” starts

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