Air Quality Index

Air Quality Index

How clean is the air in your metropolitan area? The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has provided a scale called the Air Quality Index (AQI) for rating air quality. This scale is based on the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and is described in the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 58, Appendix G. This report is based on the AQI standards.

Interpreting the AQI

Reporting for June 19, 2013 as of 8:20 am MST                      
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Metropolitan or
Other Area
Air Quality Critical
Pollutant
Air Quality Index Rating
Ozone Carbon Monoxide Sulfur Dioxide PM-10 PM-2.5
1-Hour 8-Hour 8-Hour 24-Hour † 24-Hour † 24-Hour †
AQI ppb AQI ppb AQI ppm AQI ppb AQI ug/m3 AQI ug/m3
CT-ME-MA-NH-RI-VT
Penobscot    Good Ozone * 33 19 23                
Pleasant Point    Good Ozone * 30 17 20                
NJ-NY-PR-VI
St Regis ¹    Good Ozone * 31 18 21     ## -1       §
KY-TN-NC-SC-MS-AL-GA-FL
Cherokee    Good Ozone * 20 8 9                
MN-WI-IL-MI-IN-OH
Sault Ste Marie ¹ ††     §   §                
MT-ND-WY-SD-UT-CO
Polson-Ronan    Good PM-10                 11 12.1    
CA-NV-AZ-HI-AS-GU
Bishop    Good PM-10 * 24           6 7.0    
Fort Independence    Good PM-10                 9 9.9    
Fort McDowell    Good PM-10 * 28           48 51.8    
Lone Pine    Good PM-10                 9 9.7    
Pyramid Lake    Good PM-10                 12 13.1    
Walker River ¹ ††                     §    
WA-OR-ID-AK
Coos Bay    Good PM-2.5                     ## -1.2
Fort Hall    Moderate PM-10                 71 95.1    
Warm Springs    Good PM-2.5                     10 3.2
† This is an average since midnight for the current day and does not represent an entire day's worth of data.
†† No AQI has been calculated for this metropolitan area. This can happen early in the morning before enough valid ozone or carbon monoxide hourly samples have been collected to create an eight-hour average and should clear up once enough samples are collected. If there are no measurements for any parameter, this indicates a data collection problem. Once this problem is resolved, the data will be filled in and a AQI will be calculated (if possible).
¹ Not all monitors are reporting for this metropolitan area.
§ No data of this type was collected on June 19, 2013 for this metropolitan area, or there were not enough valid hourly samples collected on this date to meet data completeness requirements of a minimum of 18 valid hourly samples in a day.
‡ There are not enough valid ozone hourly samples accumulated on June 19, 2013 to create eight-hour ozone averages.
* There is no AQI associated with hourly ozone averages less than 0.125 ppm (125 ppb).

Missing Data Report
Metropolitan Area Site Missing Parameter
PLEASE NOTE:   Data in this table is collected from TREX air monitoring sites, local agencies, and private monitoring networks. Site specific information is available for each metropolitan area by clicking on the metropolitan area name. This data has not been verified by TREX or the responsible entity and may change. While this is the most current data, it is not official until it has been certified by the appropriate technical staff. This table is updated hourly. Click here for information about all the monitoring sites.

The table above lists the current peak concentrations for each pollutant, the corresponding Air Quality Index (AQI) category, and the AQI ratings for each of the NAAQS pollutants that are measured real-time. The table is updated each hour and covers the period from midnight through the indicated ending time for today's data or from midnight to midnight on other days. Listings are provided for each area where monitoring sites are located. Critical pollutant concentrations for ozone and sulfur dioxide are shown in parts per billion (ppb), carbon monoxide measurements are shown in parts per million (ppm), and particulate matter (PM-10 and PM-2.5) concentrations are shown in micrograms per cubic meter (ug/m3).