Myrtle Creek residents often have to depend on weather and air quality reports not necessarily local to our town, often displaying information from Roseburg. Wildfire smoke and inversion layers make local air quality sensors vital, especially due to our older, vulnerable population and those with respiratory issues. That's why we've invested in equipment that gives local information that we can count on. 

Our weather and air sensors are mounted to the pergola of our home, located right next to the Myrtle Creek Golf Club.

But how accurate is the information recorded by these devices? The EPA's AirNow app will display information from these consumer air quality sensors. However, they have an internal algorrithm