Pollen today
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Google gave no index for tree, grass or weed pollen here today.
Next four days, highest level each day:
Source: Includes pollen data from GoogleGoogle Maps
Source: Includes pollen data from GoogleIncludes data from Google Maps
Google’s index for each plant it models in Kansas City today. A plant out of season has no index.
Source: Includes pollen data from GoogleGoogle Maps
The forecast that moves pollen around, and the air beside it.
Forecast: National Weather Service, updated 12:26 pm CT.
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Each thread is one kind of pollen, and each square is one week, colored by that week’s highest level.
Records for Kansas City began on October 14, 2026. Each week adds a square.
Highest level each week, November 2025 to November 2026, from each day’s forecast.
| Week | Tree | Grass | Weed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29 to Nov 4 | Not recorded | Not recorded | 1 Very low |
| Oct 22 to Oct 28 | Not recorded | Not recorded | 2 Low |
| Oct 15 to Oct 21 | Not recorded | Not recorded | 3 Moderate |
| Oct 8 to Oct 14 | Not recorded | Not recorded | 1 Very low |
Source: Includes pollen data from GoogleIncludes data from Google Maps
What this forecast doesn’t measure, and when to get help.
Google’s index covers tree, grass and weed pollen only, so there is no mold level for Kansas City on this page. The National Allergy Bureau publishes pollen and mold counts measured at its stations. Our guides cover common molds such as Alternaria, Cladosporium and Aspergillus.
The forecast doesn’t cover allergens indoors either: dust mites, cockroaches, mice, cats and dogs. Our guides explain each one, starting with dust mites and cats.
An estimated 10.7% of adults in the city of Kansas City have current asthma, according to the CDC’s PLACES estimate for 2023 (95% confidence interval: 9.8% to 11.7%). It is a statistical estimate from national survey data, not a count.
32 allergists enrolled in Medicare practice in the Kansas City area: 1.41 for every 100,000 people, more than the 1.22 across the US. The count doesn’t show how soon you can get an appointment. See the doctors listed in the Kansas City area, or how every state and metro compares.
AllergyNest count from CMS’s Doctors and Clinicians file (October 2026) and Census population estimates for 2025.
The geography, climate and plants behind each season here, with a source for every fact.
American elm, northern hackberry, Osage-orange, honeylocust and eastern redcedar are the most common trees across the greater Kansas City region, a 2013 Forest Service study found.2 The study estimated about 249 million trees in the region, with tree and shrub canopy over about 28 percent of it.2
In a public tree inventory more than 15 years old, used for Kansas City, Missouri’s 2018 urban forest master plan, maple made up 23% of public trees and oak 15%, with ash and elm at about 10% each.3 Sugar maple, pin oak and white ash were the most common species, at 9% each.3
Winters at the downtown airport average about 34 °F, and a typical year has about 211 days between the last spring freeze and the first fall freeze.1 For the species as a whole, the Forest Service’s Silvics manual places eastern redcedar’s pollen release in late February to early spring.4 In Kansas, the state forest service reports that redcedar has spread into grasslands, especially where fire is absent.5
Answered from the values on this page.
Very little. None of the plants Google models is above 0 in Kansas City today.
No. It’s Google’s modeled pollen index, from 0 (none) to 5 (very high), calculated for the location of central Kansas City. A pollen count is the number of pollen grains measured in a cubic meter of air at a counting station. How our pollen index works.
Twice a day. We fetch new values soon after midnight in Kansas City, so each day starts with its own values, and again after Google’s daily model run, usually by about 9:30 am CT. Each section shows when its values were retrieved.
Since October 14, 2026. The year in pollen above fills in as each day is recorded, and weeks before then show no data. Google doesn’t provide past values, so nothing earlier can be added.
Source: Includes pollen data from GoogleIncludes data from Google Maps