Spanish Fork Air Quality

Spanish Fork City recently installed several air quality sensors throughout the city, which allow you to check real-time air quality in Spanish Fork. With several wild fires burning in the Western United States, combined with ozone issues unique to the Wasatch Front, air quality is a major concern, especially for individuals with pre-existing respiratory problems, children, and seniors.

To check the air quality in Spanish Fork:

1. Go to www.purpleair.com.
2. Click on the Map icon at the top of the screen.
3. You will be prompted to allow cookies to run on the page. Click Yes.
4. You will also be prompted to allow the site to determine your location. Click Yes, or manually pan through the map to find your location.
5. The map will show the real-time air quality level at each sensor. For more information on a particular sensor, click on the icon at each sensor.

Air quality is grouped into 6 categories:

• Good (0-50 AQI) - Air quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk
• Moderate (51-100 AQI) - Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution.
• Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (101-150 AQI) - Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected. The following grups should reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion:
• People with lung disease, such as asthma
• Children and older adults
• People who are active outdoors
• Unhealthy (151-200 AQI) - Everyone may begin to experience health effects; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects. The following grups should reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion:
  • People with lung disease, such as asthma
  • Children and older adults
  • People who are active outdoors
• Very Unhealthy (201-300 AQI) - Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected. The following grups should reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion:
  • People with lung disease, such as asthma
  • Children and older adults
  • People who are active outdoors
• Hazardous (301-500 AQI) - Health alert: everyone may experience more serious health effects

For more information regarding air quality and what you can do, visit http://deq.utah.gov/division-air-quality