2023 Canada Wildfires and United States Air Quality

As hundreds of wildfires burn in Canada, U.S. air quality will continue to be impacted based on weather conditions. Return here to see the AirNow layers with Census data, and potential impacts on underserved communities.

Photo courtesy of the National Hurricane Center.

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My Community Explorer

An Equity Tool to Identify Underserved Communities

My Community Explorer (MCE) is a map-based dashboard that provides selected demographic, business, and resilience information to help users identify potentially underserved areas of their state, counties, and communities. MCE also allows users to see the relationship of underserved communities to current natural disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, air quality, extreme heat, and other severe weather events.

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