Florida Air Quality & Wildfire Smoke
Live AQI for 4 Florida cities, plus statewide air-quality alerts. Data from AirNow (U.S. EPA).
Wildfire smoke in Florida
Smoke risk across Florida concentrates in spring, and again in autumn, driven by prescribed burns and local brush fires more often than distant wildfire, which makes the timing here unlike the West's.
The 4 cities tracked here span roughly 315 miles, which is far enough that they routinely sit in different air masses. A reading in Jacksonville does not describe the whole state during a plume — check the city nearest you rather than assuming the largest one is representative.
Each city page below shows AirNow's reported AQI on the 2024 EPA breakpoints, with the reporting monitor and the observation time — see how we calculate AQI. Statewide watches and warnings come from the National Weather Service and appear at the top of this page when active.
Cross-border check: the nearest city we track outside Florida is Atlanta, GA, about 286 miles northwest of Jacksonville. Smoke does not stop at state lines — when a plume covers that city's monitors, Florida's edge nearest it is usually seeing the same air.
Our next-nearest tracked readings sit in Charlotte, NC (341 mi north) and Raleigh, NC (417 mi northeast) — useful second opinions when Florida's own reading looks odd, and the honest picture of how coarse national smoke coverage is at this resolution.
Florida is one of the more closely watched states in our national coverage — we track 4 cities here, more than most states — so intra-state differences are visible rather than averaged away.