# Air Quality Alert: Wabasha; Dodge; Olmsted; Winona; Mower; Fillmore; Houston — retained record

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source: [us-gov-api](https://highsignal.app/data/us-gov-api) (us-gov-api:noaa-weather)  published 2026-07-18 15:39 ingested 2026-07-19 08:12

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## extract

Air Quality Alert — Wabasha; Dodge; Olmsted; Winona; Mower; Fillmore; Houston
Severity: Unknown. Certainty: Unknown.
* WHAT...The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an Air
Quality Alert for fine particles pollution. The Air Quality Index
(AQI) is expected to reach the Red or Unhealthy category.

* WHERE...East central, southeast, south central, and northeast
Minnesota.

* WHEN...From 3 AM CDT Sunday until 11 AM CDT Monday.

* IMPACTS...Some members of the general public may experience health
effects. Sensitive groups, such as people with lung disease (including
asthma), heart disease, and children and older adults, may
experience health effects.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Heavy smoke from wildfires will persist across
northeast Minnesota tonight into Sunday morning. Increasing
southwesterly winds Sunday afternoon will lead to improved air quality
for much of northeast Minnesota, though areas near the shores of
Lake Superior and the wildfires themselves may continue to
experience poor air quality through the afternoon. The alert for
this part of the state is currently set to expire at 7 p.m. Sunday.
Only localized poor air quality near the wildfires will continue
thereafter. Heavy smoke is expected to then enter southeastern and
far east central Minnesota from the east early Sunday morning and
persist through Monday morning. Red, meaning unhealthy for
everyone, is the expected AQI category for all of this alert.

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