California AQI Map: How Bad Is the Air Today?

An image highlighting regions of poor air quality in California, with a significant "Unhealthy" red zone impacting the Central Valley. Its purpose is to show how this outdoor pollution can infiltrate indoor environments, recommending protective measures like improved air filtration systems and HVAC solutions.

A Sacramento homeowner called me in August after her furnace started struggling to keep up. When I pulled the filter, it looked like it had been running for a year. She was three weeks out from her last swap. Back-to-back wildfire smoke events had loaded it edge to center with gray-brown particulate. She’d been on … Read more