Castlegar Air Quality Map
Check current AQHI observations around Castlegar while keeping observed multi-pollutant health risk separate from the modelled wildfire-smoke forecast.
How to read AQHI around Castlegar
Castlegar air quality can reflect wildfire smoke together with road traffic, residential activity, industrial sources, ozone, dust, and changing West Kootenay weather. AQHI combines several pollutants into a short-term health-risk index at participating monitoring locations and does not identify a specific wildfire as the cause. Conditions can vary between river valleys, neighbourhoods, rural properties, and surrounding slopes, so FireRadar does not treat one observation as a uniform local value.
Observation, not a city-wide constant
AQHI values come from participating reporting locations and communicate combined health risk from multiple air pollutants. The nearest observation may not match every neighbourhood around Castlegar, and a missing marker is not evidence of clean air. Wildfire smoke is one possible contributor rather than the definition of AQHI.
A focused starting view, not a clipped dataset
This page starts the national FireRadar layer around Castlegar. The underlying AQHI station layer is not clipped to municipal boundaries, so nearby conditions remain visible as you pan or zoom. FireRadar does not infer a uniform value inside a city boundary.
Health and safety limitation
FireRadar is an informational environmental map. Follow Environment and Climate Change Canada, provincial health agencies, local public-health guidance, and emergency authorities for health or safety decisions. This page does not diagnose exposure, determine whether outdoor activity is safe, or predict individual health effects.
Related Castlegar wildfire context
Smoke and air quality can change even when no confirmed wildfire is close to Castlegar. Use the local wildfire page for current official incidents, the fire-danger page for broad fire-weather context, and the province view when you need a wider regional picture.