Hold your breath for some bad news if youre a local.

Four are located in Southern and Central California, with Los Angeles leading.

The others, in order, are Visalia, California, Bakersfield, California, and Fresno-Madera-Hanford, California.

View of downtown Los Angeles

View of downtown Los AngelesAllen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The outlier is the Phoenix-Mesa metro area in Arizona.

Despite Southern Californias ranking, the report shows ozone levels at about half of what they were historically.

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