How's the Smoke?
Today's air quality in plain language, updated hourly — for wildfire-smoke season and every day.
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Today's air quality in plain language, updated hourly — for wildfire-smoke season and every day.
Today's air in town, in plain language. Most of the year the answer is good — the time it isn't is wildfire-smoke season, from about mid-August into September.
Fair Fine for being outside, including exercise, for almost everyone.
| Day | Air quality |
|---|---|
| Mon 15 Jun | Fair |
| Tue 16 Jun | Fair |
| Wed 17 Jun | Fair |
| Thu 18 Jun | Fair |
Leavenworth's air goes from good to bad mainly because of wildfire smoke, sometimes from fires a long way off, mostly mid-August into September. In 2025 the Lower Sugarloaf and Labor Mountain fires pushed the valley to unhealthy and hazardous air for stretches of August and September.
On a high-smoke day, rafting, hiking and patio dining all get harder, and it matters most for kids, older people and anyone with heart or lung trouble. The town's weather-warnings page shows any official Air Quality Alert; the Watch Duty app is what locals use to track the fires themselves.
This is a model reading for the town. Up the side canyons and higher in the mountains, smoke can settle or clear differently — trust your eyes and nose too.
Updated 14 June at 15:29. These are modelled estimates for the area around downtown Leavenworth, not readings from a street monitor — air right beside a busy road can be worse than the area-wide picture. Official forecast: airnow.gov. Air quality data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), based on Copernicus CAMS.