Air Quality Alert continues to impact burning permits statewide
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has extended the Air Quality Alert for all of Minnesota through Monday, August 4, at 5 p.m.
To reduce additional air pollutants, burning permits will not be issued or activated when an Air Quality Alert is active. Campfires are discouraged.
For up-to-date information on fire danger and burning restrictions, visit www.mndnr.gov/burnrestrictions.
Smoke with widespread Red Air Quality Index (AQI), which is unhealthy for everyone, will continue over most of the state on Saturday. Concentrations should gradually decline sometime on Saturday as it gets pushed north after a wind change, but with smoke spreading as far south as Tennessee and Missouri, the clearing of smoke may be slow. Orange AQIs (unhealthy for sensitive groups) could hang on through Sunday and into Monday. For updates or more information on the air quality alert, sensitive groups, and health effects, visit the MPCA current air quality webpage.
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