Air Quality & Wildfire Information

Campus Resilience monitors all area wildfires and wildfire smoke that may impact the Hilltop campus and campuses at all other locations. USF will use Air Quality Index (AQI) used by the Environmental Protection Agency for reporting and forecasting. The EPA operates the publicly available website airnow.gov. USF will use AirNow metrics to guide all recommendations and decisions affecting campus.

View the USF Wildfire Air Quality Policy

The policy contains:

• Activation of the campus Emergency Operations Center
• Conditions that cause the university to implement the continuity of classes plan
• Air Quality Decision Matrix
• Campus Operations
• Distribution of N95 respirators
• Resumption of Normal Operations
• Continuity of Services