Indicator · us-aqi-p90

90th-percentile daily AQI

The AQI that only the worst tenth of days exceeded.

Unit
AQI
Places
916 counties in 2025
Built from
Yearly air quality summary by county
Reading it
Lower is better.

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Median county, 1980–2025

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The middle value of every county with data that year. 2025: 58 AQI.
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Highest and lowest in 2025

Highest
San Bernardino County, CA 156 AQI
Riverside County, CA 150 AQI
Los Angeles County, CA 147 AQI
El Paso County, TX 123 AQI
Doña Ana County, NM 115 AQI
Lowest
Karnes County, TX 16 AQI
Sonoma County, CA 17 AQI
Wilson County, TX 19 AQI
Uinta County, WY 19 AQI
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 21 AQI

How it is computed

EPA 90th percentile AQI, from the Yearly air quality summary by county dataset on this site. visualizedata.org computes the indicator for every place and year; the full table, the map and each place's history are on its page there. The underlying data, with its source and license, is on the dataset page, with the API and downloads.