SmokeDarJefferson City wildfire smoke and air quality
Live readings for Jefferson City, Missouri: 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 Jefferson City
Jefferson City, in mid-Missouri's river country, sees wildfire smoke mostly as a high veil that dims the sun over the Capitol dome. Smoke thick enough to move the surface AQI usually signals a continental-scale event, worth checking rather than assuming. That is why SmokeDar reports two numbers for Jefferson City: 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.
Jefferson City right now
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Open the live Jefferson City 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.