SmokeDarFort Wayne wildfire smoke and air quality
Live readings for Fort Wayne, Indiana: whether wildfire smoke is overhead, what the surface air measures, and how the next five days look. Free, no signup, no ads.
How smoke reaches Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne sits between the two main smoke corridors, plumes tracking southeast over Chicago and those curling around the Great Lakes toward Ohio. It can catch either, usually as aged smoke aloft, with surface impacts a beat behind cities to its northwest. That is why SmokeDar reports two numbers for Fort Wayne: smoke aloft (modeled aerosol optical depth from Copernicus CAMS) and surface air (PM2.5 and US AQI, observed AirNow monitor data when a monitor is nearby). They are different things, and they often disagree.
Fort Wayne right now
–US AQI
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Open the live Fort Wayne radarWhat the numbers mean
AQI 0–50 is good and 51–100 is moderate; ordinary days. From 101–150, sensitive groups (kids, older adults, pregnant people, anyone with heart or lung conditions) should shorten hard outdoor exercise. Above 150, everyone should cut both time and intensity outdoors. The full playbook is in the Smoke Guide.