Indicator · us-pm25-days

Days when fine particles set the AQI

The pollutant with the highest AQI that day.

Unit
% of days
Places
916 counties in 2025
Built from
Yearly air quality summary by county

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Median county, 1980–2025

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The middle value of every county with data that year. 2025: 46.0% of days.
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Highest and lowest in 2025

Highest
Adams County, WA 100.0% of days
Asotin County, WA 100.0% of days
Atascosa County, TX 100.0% of days
Athens County, OH 100.0% of days
Baker County, OR 100.0% of days

123 counties share this value; five are shown, alphabetically.

Lowest
York County, ME 0.0% of days
Yalobusha County, MS 0.0% of days
Wythe County, VA 0.0% of days
Wood County, OH 0.0% of days
Wilson County, TX 0.0% of days

208 counties share this value; five are shown, alphabetically.

How it is computed

EPA days PM2.5 was the main pollutant / days with an 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.