Oklahoma Air Quality & Wildfire Smoke
Live AQI for 1 Oklahoma city, plus statewide air-quality alerts. Data from AirNow (U.S. EPA).
Wildfire smoke in Oklahoma
Smoke risk across Oklahoma concentrates in the summer months, driven by long-range transport from fires hundreds of miles away.
We currently track one city in Oklahoma. Its reading is for that monitoring area only and should not be read as a statewide figure.
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.
The 681,054 people we track in Oklahoma are all in the Oklahoma City area, so this page is effectively that metro's page with a wider lens. For the rest of Oklahoma, the nearest tracked reading in a bordering state is usually the better proxy than a number from the opposite corner.
Cross-border check: the nearest city we track outside Oklahoma is Wichita, KS, about 154 miles north of Oklahoma City. Smoke does not stop at state lines — when a plume covers that city's monitors, Oklahoma's edge nearest it is usually seeing the same air.
Our next-nearest tracked readings sit in Fort Worth, TX (187 mi south) and Dallas, TX (190 mi south) — useful second opinions when Oklahoma's own reading looks odd, and the honest picture of how coarse national smoke coverage is at this resolution.
About our Oklahoma City coverage
Oklahoma City is one of the Oklahoma cities we track, with a population of about 681,054, in Oklahoma County.
A city this size carries its own year-round PM2.5 baseline from traffic, construction and industry, so wildfire smoke here arrives on top of an existing load rather than against clean background air. That matters for reading the number: a moderate AQI in Oklahoma City on a smoke-free week is normal, and the same AQI during a plume means considerably more smoke than it would somewhere with a lower floor.
Smoke risk here concentrates in the summer months, driven by long-range transport from fires hundreds of miles away. Outside that window an elevated reading in Oklahoma City is more likely to be local — traffic, dust, or a temperature inversion holding everyday pollution near the ground — than wildfire smoke, and the dominant pollutant shown above is what tells the two apart.
For smoke preparation that applies anywhere — filtration, masks, a clean room — see our wildfire-smoke health guide and the clean-room setup.