Latest air zone reports

Air zone reports are prepared each year by the B.C. government to summarize how air quality levels in broad reporting areas called 'air zones' compare to the Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS) over a 3-year reporting period.

The reports describe the management levels assigned to each air zone based on air quality levels after trans-boundary or exceptional events, like wildfires (those events that communities have little control over) have been removed.

Management levels are used to help determine the need to maintain or improve air quality.

Some of these actions are summarized in air zone management response reports:

• Air Zone Management Response for British Columbia: March 2019 (PDF, 480KB)
• Air Zone Management Response for British Columbia: September 2017 (PDF, 924KB)

Interactive summaries of air quality indicators and the air zone reports are available:

• Environmental Reporting BC Air Indicators

Air zone reports by 3-year period