Comment by arjie

What are people's target AQIs? I have indoor monitors in our high-rise building in SF and live 100 m from the freeway and we have:

    PM2.5: 2.6 µg/m³
    PM10: 0.5 µg/m³
    VOC index: ~97
    CO₂: ~505 ppm

That's the baseline. When we're cooking, like now, it's:

    PM2.5: 10.8 µg/m³ (AQI ~46)
    PM10: 17.5 µg/m³
    VOC index: 122
    CO₂: 572 ppm

None of those seem particularly concerning. We have a gas range, and 15 min past the end of cooking everything is fine. I must imagine that most people don't live right next to the freeway so they probably have even better air quality except during wildfire season.