{"id":1524752,"date":"2026-07-16T06:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=3343d2adc51ab8e314bba9c42eb30fd9"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:31:42","slug":"dangerous-wildfire-smoke-continues-with-air-quality-alerts-in-at-least-17-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1524752","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous wildfire smoke continues with air quality alerts in at least 17 states"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/a3467151f97a0734f88c32f0d74e524d.png\" alt\/><figcaption>An ABC News graphic shows the forecast for Thursday, July 16, 2026. (ABC News)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>(NEW YORK) -- Air quality alerts are in place on Thursday across at least 17 states, from Minnesota to New Hampshire to Virginia, as dangerous smoke drifts into the U.S. from Canadian wildfires.<\/p><p>Smoke from the more than 180 wildfires burning in Canada is traveling more than a thousand miles to reach places like New York City. At least another nine large fires are burning in northern Minnesota.<\/p><p>Detroit, Michigan, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, have the worst air quality in the world among major cities, with extremely hazardous air quality.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Detroit reaching an air quality index, or AQI, around an astronomical 600 on Thursday morning. The most dangerous level, \"hazardous,\" begins at an AQI of 300 plus.&nbsp;<\/p><p>This extreme smoke is expected to continue east and continue through the Northeast.<\/p><p>New York City could see orange skies on Thursday, as plumes of hazardous smoke make their far enough to be dense.<\/p><p>By Friday morning, the smoke is expected to push farther south, affecting areas through Ohio and Virginia, including D.C. and Baltimore, through the day on Friday.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ABC News graphic shows the forecast for Thursday, July 16, 2026. (ABC News)(NEW YORK) &#8212; Air quality alerts are in place on Thursday across at least 17 states, from Minnesota to New Hampshire to Virginia, as dangerous smoke drifts into the U.S. from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3515,"featured_media":1524767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-16\/abc-fire.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-heads","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 09:53:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-16\/abc-fire.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524766,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524752\/revisions\/1524766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}