Air Quality - What Does it Mean?

Many of us have been going to the community meetings about the fire and one of the things mentioned was to check the Air Quality Index (AQI). Montana.gov has air monitoring data that is updated hourly and Seeley Lake is one the locations across Montana being monitored. To find this website, type "air quality Seeley Lake" into your search engine and it's one of the first websites to come up.

Now that you know how to check for air quality – what does it mean? AQI is a measurement of the concentrations of the major pollutants in the air. The higher the number is, the more pollutants that are in t...