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Indicators / United States / Air quality

Days when nitrogen dioxide set the AQI

% of days · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, AirData annual AQI by county, via airdata.dev · traffic and combustion; the pollutant with the highest AQI that day

Middle county, 2025
0.0% of days
States with a figure
none county figures only
Counties with a figure
916 2025
Days when nitrogen dioxide set the AQI, the middle US county, 1980–2025The median of the 916 counties with a figure was 0.0% of days in 2025, against 0.0% of days in 2015; the counties with a monitor change from year to year.
0.01.02.03.019801990200020102020
Indicator: Days when nitrogen dioxide set the AQI, % of days, yearly (traffic and combustion; the pollutant with the highest AQI that day); EPA days NO2 was the main pollutant / days with an AQI; median across counties with a figure that yearSource: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, AirData annual AQI by county (U.S. public domain), via airdata.dev county-aqi-annual, version 2026-10-26.271cefd8c0
Show the numbers (46 rows)
YearMiddle county
20250.0
20240.0
20230.0
20220.0
20210.0
20200.0
20190.0
20180.0
20170.0
20160.0
20150.0
20140.0
20130.0
20120.0
20110.0
20100.0
20090.0
20080.0
20070.0
20060.0
20050.0
20040.0
20030.0
20020.0
20010.0
20000.0
19990.0
19980.0
19970.0
19960.0
19950.0
19940.0
19930.0
19920.0
19910.0
19900.0
19890.0
19880.0
19870.0
19860.0
19850.0
19840.0
19830.0
19820.0
19810.0
19802.7

Highest and lowest counties, 2025

HighestStateDays when nitrogen dioxide set the AQI
Wilson CountyTexas100.0% of days
Karnes CountyTexas100.0% of days
Carbon CountyWyoming88.7% of days
Macoupin CountyIllinois34.1% of days
Hudson CountyNew Jersey28.5% of days
Gallatin CountyMontana24.9% of days
Richmond cityVirginia22.5% of days
Union CountyNew Jersey21.8% of days
Bergen CountyNew Jersey20.9% of days
St. Charles CountyMissouri19.7% of days
LowestStateDays when nitrogen dioxide set the AQI
Baldwin CountyAlabama0.0% of days
Clay CountyAlabama0.0% of days
DeKalb CountyAlabama0.0% of days
Elmore CountyAlabama0.0% of days
Etowah CountyAlabama0.0% of days
Madison CountyAlabama0.0% of days
Mobile CountyAlabama0.0% of days
Montgomery CountyAlabama0.0% of days
Morgan CountyAlabama0.0% of days
Russell CountyAlabama0.0% of days

Every county's figure is on its own page, in its profile table, with its rank among all counties and within its state.

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curl https://visualizedata.org/data/us-indicators/us-no2-days.json

Every place from airdata.dev (live, no key; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data, this exact version):

curl "https://api.airdata.dev/v1/county-aqi-annual@2026-10-26.271cefd8c0/download/county-aqi-annual.parquet"

Open the JSON

Source

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, AirData annual AQI by county (U.S. public domain): EPA days NO2 was the main pollutant / days with an AQI.
  • Read through airdata.dev, dataset county-aqi-annual, version 2026-10-26.271cefd8c0; its 47 input files from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are named with their sha256 in this page's data, and the site's checks recompute every figure from them.
  • A year counts once it is over, for counties whose monitors gave an AQI on at least 180 days; EPA's file for the current year is partial. A county without a monitor has no figure, and one monitor can stand for a large county. Fine-particle (PM2.5) monitors only spread from 1999, and EPA has since tightened the AQI scale for ozone and fine particles, so a long trend mixes changes in the air with changes in what is measured and how.
  • EPA refreshes its annual files twice a year; a year is final about May of the next.
  • 12 areas in the source are not places in the geo registry and are left out: us-county-02261, us-county-09001, us-county-09003, us-county-09005, us-county-09007, us-county-09009, us-county-09011, us-county-09013, us-county-09015, us-county-78010, us-county-78020, us-county-78030 (Connecticut's former counties, retired Alaska and South Dakota codes, the Virgin Islands).
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