Bad Air Days in Clinton County, Ohio: 3 a Year
3 bad air days a year
About the middle of monitored US counties. Ranked 370 of 996 monitored counties, where 1 is worst.
What makes them bad: mostly ozone: summer smog (0% particle days).
Which months to watch
- J
- F
- M
- A
- M
- J
- J
- A
- S
- O
- N
- D
Most bad days here fall in June and September. Averaged over 2016 to 2025.
Is a purifier worth it here?
- Ozone drives many bad days here. Purifiers and filters do not remove ozone, so do not buy one for that. Ozone peaks on hot afternoons: exercise outside in the morning.
The record for Clinton
In 2000 to 2009 this county averaged 44 bad days a year; in 2016 to 2025, 3. The air has improved. The worst recent year was 2016, with 4 bad days on 211 monitored days.
| Date | AQI | Main pollutant |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-04 | 143 | Ozone |
| 2022-06-21 | 140 | Ozone |
| 2023-06-02 | 129 | Ozone |
| 2023-06-10 | 115 | Ozone |
| 2023-06-28 | 115 | Ozone |
Most days, not the worst ones
Across 2,384 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Clinton County rated Good on 83% of them, more often than the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 16%. The median day sat at AQI 42; one day in ten went above 61.
The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:
- ozone100%2,384 days
Clinton County by year
| Year | Days monitored | Good | Moderate | Over 100 | Over 150 | Median AQI | Highest AQI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025* | 243 | 202 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 41 | 112 |
| 2024 | 240 | 176 | 60 | 4 | 0 | 44 | 112 |
| 2023 | 242 | 199 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 44 | 129 |
| 2022 | 245 | 216 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 140 |
| 2021 | 240 | 209 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 84 |
| 2020 | 229 | 205 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 97 |
| 2019 | 244 | 203 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 100 |
| 2018 | 245 | 202 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 112 |
| 2017 | 245 | 206 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 42 | 143 |
| 2016 | 211 | 154 | 53 | 4 | 0 | 44 | 112 |
| 2015 | 214 | 182 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 41 | 119 |
| 2014 | 212 | 163 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 122 |
| 2013 | 213 | 184 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 122 |
| 2012 | 214 | 123 | 77 | 14 | 4 | 49 | 187 |
| 2011 | 214 | 131 | 61 | 22 | 3 | 47 | 161 |
| 2010 | 213 | 115 | 89 | 9 | 0 | 49 | 133 |
*2025 may be a partial year in EPA's file.
Ohio compared
- Hamilton County9/yr
- Cuyahoga County7/yr
- Lucas County7/yr
- Lake County7/yr
- Butler County6/yr
- Warren County5/yr
- Geauga County5/yr
- Ashtabula County4/yr
How this is counted
A bad air day is a day the county's daily AQI from EPA AirData went above 100, the level where EPA tells children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease to cut back outdoors. Monitors do not run every day, so yearly counts are scaled to 365 days. This is the record, not today's air: for that, check AirNow. More on the method in how the county numbers are made, on the AQI 100 line in what counts as a bad air day, and on why a purifier does not touch ozone in smoke vs ozone.