Flow AQ | Air Quality

Flow AQ – Smart Air Quality Forecasts & Insights, Designed Around Your Day


Flow AQ helps you understand the air you breathe — now and days ahead — so you can plan your life with confidence.
Using a unique Physics-Based AI forecasting system, Flow AQ delivers the world’s most sophisticated air quality forecasts and real-time conditions across the U.S. and Canada in a beautifully simple app.

Air Quality Simplified.



Key Features

4-Day Air Quality Forecasts
• Plan outdoor activities ahead of time
• Hour-by-hour forecasts show when air quality will worsen — and when it will improve
• Advanced modeling captures wildfire smoke, dust, smog, and wintertime inversions


Real-Time Air Quality Conditions
• Live air quality insights powered by over 20,000 sensors
• Make informed decisions when current conditions matter


Personalized Air Quality Alerts
• Get notified when current or forecasted air quality hazards affect your area
• Stay proactive about the air you breathe and daily activities


Beautifully Simple Design
• You don’t need to be an expert in atmospheric science to use the most sophisticated model around, Flow AQ is easy to use
• Simply view real-time conditions, see the forecast, and set up custom alerts
• Powerful science, made easy to understand



Powered by Physics-Based AI
Flow AQ combines high-resolution atmospheric simulations with machine learning, the same class of tools used in scientific research, to deliver more accurate and reliable air quality forecasts. Flow AQ is powered by Trace Air Quality’s Air Quality Analytics (AQA) Engine.
Learn more about our forecasting technology:

https://www.traceaq.com/aqaenginewhitepaper



Privacy & Data Use
Flow AQ collects your name, email address, coarse location, app performance data, and anonymized crash reports to deliver forecasts and alerts.
Full privacy policy: https://www.flowaq.com/privacy-policy



Data Sources & Attributions
The current air quality conditions displayed within Flow AQ are an aggregation of available sensor networks.
Some observations are sourced from the U.S. EPA AirNow Data Exchange. These data are preliminary. We credit the EPA AirNow program and their partners, which may be found at the following address: https://www.airnow.gov/partners/
This layer is further powered, in part, by PurpleAir (https://map.purpleair.com/). Underlying air quality data utilized by Trace AQ / Flow AQ is sourced from PurpleAir, a network of consumer sensors. Sensors are owned and managed by consumers; therefore, PurpleAir does not guarantee data accuracy. All insights and claims are solely made by Flow AQ.
Additional data is provided, in part, by AirGradient via OpenAQ (https://openaq.org/).