As the fires continue to smolder, what is the air quality forecast for this weekend?

A veil of wildfire smoke continued to linger over many Southern California communities Friday as conflagrations tore through the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountains. Smoke forecast 0–3 micrograms per cubic meter 3–25 25–63 Jan. 10, 10 p.m. Jan. 11, 10 a.m. Jan. 11, 10 p.m. “Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties have been relatively spared from this event, but it looks like they’re going to get some smoke,” said Scott Epstein, air quality assessment manager for the local air district. “It’s a bit hard for us to kind of project beyond there, because so much depends on the actual emissions from the fire and what the containment efforts are going to look like.” Across Southern California, the number of evacuees from the fire zones may be rivaled by crowds of Angelenos whose homes were not in mandatory evacuation areas but who left their neighborhoods or the L.A. area altogether to avoid dangerous air quality levels. I think unless we get some kind of weather event that really tries to clean this out, it’s going to be weeks.” Los Angeles Unified School District remained closed on Friday due to the poor air quality. given its impact on air quality for an indeterminate amount of time,” said Holly Mitchell, a Los Angeles County supervisor and air district governing board member.