EPA AQS Daily Air Quality Index by county (10-year history, ~3.3M rows)

Dataset · US Environmental Protection Agency · primary source ↗

EPA Air Quality System daily AQI for every US county since 2015. Per county × day: 0-500 Air Quality Index, category (Good/Moderate/Unhealthy/Hazardous), defining pollutant (PM2.5/Ozone/NO2/SO2/CO/PM10), defining monitor site, count of reporting monitors. Joins with epa_pollutant_emissions on county FIPS to cross-reference daily air quality against annual stationary-source releases. Powers /county-aqi/{fips} canonical pages and daily-history queries.

Source agency
US Environmental Protection Agency
License / terms
Coverage
~3.3M county × day records 2015-2024
API endpoint

Keywords

AQIair quality indexPM2.5OzoneEPA AQSdaily air qualitycounty air pollutionsmoke wildfiresambient air quality

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html. Source-specific terms apply. US federal employee-authored works are generally public domain under 17 USC 105; non-federal and third-party material retains source terms. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms. AI Analytics-authored metadata and normalization are CC0 only where expressly stated.

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