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The air over New York City is officially ‘unhealthy’: Canadian wildfire smoke and heat pushed the whole state into advisory territory

Bushwick and all of NYC faced 'Unhealthy' air quality on July 16 due to Canadian wildfire smoke and high heat, prompting a state emergency briefing and public health advisories across New York State.

A red-orange sun glows through gray wildfire smoke haze beside a Manhattan rooftop building
Smoke from Canadian wildfires turns the sun red over Manhattan on July 16, 2026, the day the state rated the New York City region's air quality unhealthy. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0), modified

The air over New York City is officially ‘unhealthy’: Canadian wildfire smoke and heat pushed the whole state into advisory territory

Bushwick and all of NYC faced 'Unhealthy' air quality on July 16 due to Canadian wildfire smoke and high heat, prompting a state emergency briefing and public health advisories across New York State.

The air over New York City is officially ‘unhealthy’: Canadian wildfire smoke and heat pushed the whole state into advisory territory

The air across all of New York went bad enough on July 16 that three state agencies scheduled an emergency media briefing to talk about it, and the forecast for the New York City metro area, the one that covers Bushwick, was rated “Unhealthy.”

That is according to a press release from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, which said it would hold a media availability over Zoom at 1:15 p.m. that…

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