Air Quality in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma — Live

Live readings from PurpleAir sensors across Broken Arrow — with free alerts when summer ozone climbs.

Live Broken Arrow AQI from nearby PurpleAir sensors loads when this page opens in a browser, along with a live sensor map covering Broken Arrow and Tulsa, Bixby, Coweta, Wagoner.

Broken Arrow's air is unremarkable most of the year — there's no wildfire smoke season here, no coastal fog, no valley trapping anything overnight. The real story is ground-level ozone, and it's a regional one: on hot, sunny, low-wind summer afternoons, tailpipe and industrial emissions from across the Tulsa metro cook into smog that settles over the whole airshed, Broken Arrow included.

Canairy watches the sensors around your home, your kids' school, and everywhere else you care about, and tells you in plain English when the air changes enough to matter.

Broken Arrow shares Tulsa County's F grade for ozone

The American Lung Association's 2026 State of the Air report, which scores counties on 2022-2024 monitoring data, gave Tulsa County an F for ozone pollution — the worst mark of any Oklahoma county and one of eight statewide failing grades that year. The county logged 28 days when ozone reached the "unhealthy for sensitive groups" level, more than anywhere else in the state, and the Tulsa-Bartlesville-Muskogee metro area ranked 20th nationally on the ALA's list of the most ozone-polluted metro areas.

Broken Arrow doesn't have its own dedicated air monitor, but that F grade isn't a downtown-Tulsa problem the suburbs escape — ozone forms in the air mass drifting over the whole metro, and Broken Arrow sits inside the same Tulsa County line the grade covers. On a bad-ozone afternoon, the sky over Broken Arrow looks exactly like the sky over downtown Tulsa, because it's the same air.

A 30-plus-year voluntary alert program covers the whole metro

Since the 1990s, the regional planning agency INCOG has run the Ozone Alert! Program each year from April through October, the stretch when Tulsa-area ozone is most likely to spike. On days the forecast calls for the 8-hour ozone average to approach or exceed the program's 0.071 ppm trigger, INCOG asks residents and businesses across the metro — Broken Arrow, Bixby, Jenks, Owasso, and Tulsa itself — to voluntarily cut back on driving, defer gas-powered lawn equipment, and limit idling until the afternoon heat breaks.

Five monitors feed the program's daily numbers: west at Mannford, east at Lynn Lane, central in Tulsa, north in Skiatook, and south in Glenpool. The trend the network has measured is genuinely improving — 14 exceedance days in 2023, 6 in 2024, and none recorded through 2025 — and the current three-year design value of 0.065 ppm meets the federal ozone standard. That's the other half of the honest picture: the same region the ALA graded F for unhealthy-for-sensitive-groups days is, by the stricter federal compliance measure, currently in attainment.

Summer heat, not smoke, is what pushes the numbers up

Broken Arrow's climate is humid subtropical, with hot, muggy summers and no mountain range or coastline nearby to stir the air or confine pollution to one dramatic season the way wildfire smoke does out West. Ozone here isn't blown in from somewhere else — it forms locally, when sunlight cooks nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds from cars, industrial boilers, and gas equipment on hot, calm afternoons.

That's why ozone alerts cluster on the still, sunny days of July and August rather than any single weather event, and why a clear-looking afternoon can still be moving through the day's worst stretch, typically mid-afternoon into early evening. Without a smoke season to watch for, the useful habit in Broken Arrow is checking the ozone forecast before an outdoor practice or afternoon run in summer, the same way other cities watch a wildfire map.

Broken Arrow air quality FAQ

What is the air quality in Broken Arrow right now?

This page shows the current AQI for Broken Arrow, calculated from PurpleAir sensors across the city and updated continuously. The map below shows every live sensor, so you can check the reading closest to your own neighborhood.

Why does Broken Arrow get ozone alerts in summer?

Broken Arrow sits inside the Tulsa metro's shared airshed, and on hot, sunny, low-wind days from April through October, sunlight reacts with emissions from vehicles, industrial boilers, and gas-powered equipment to form ground-level ozone. The regional planning agency INCOG has run a voluntary Ozone Alert! Program since the 1990s, asking the whole metro - Broken Arrow included - to cut driving and idling on the days ozone is forecast to spike.

Does Tulsa County's ozone grade apply to Broken Arrow?

Yes. The American Lung Association's 2026 State of the Air report gave Tulsa County an F for ozone, with 28 days of unhealthy-for-sensitive-groups readings over 2022-2024 - the worst in Oklahoma. Broken Arrow doesn't have its own monitor, but it shares the same county air mass those readings measure, so the grade reflects the air over Broken Arrow as much as it does downtown Tulsa.

What AQI level is unhealthy?

Under the US EPA scale, AQI 0-50 is Good and 51-100 is Moderate. From 101 the air is Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups - kids, older adults, and people with asthma or heart conditions - and above 150 it's Unhealthy for everyone. Canairy translates these numbers into a plain-English verdict, like whether to close the windows or move a workout indoors.

Where does Canairy's Broken Arrow data come from?

Readings come from PurpleAir's network of laser particle sensors across Broken Arrow and surrounding towns, cross-referenced with government monitors and the Google Air Quality API. You can see every sensor behind your numbers on the live map - there's no black box.

Is Canairy free?

Yes. The Canairy app is free to download and includes live air quality for all your saved places, plain-English verdicts, and free push alerts when the air crosses your threshold. A paid plan adds extras like SMS text alerts.

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