Bad Air Days in Douglas County, Georgia: 4 a Year
4 bad air days a year
About the middle of monitored US counties. Ranked 296 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 and August. Averaged over 2016 to 2025.
What to buy, and what not to
- 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 Douglas
In 2000 to 2009 this county averaged 39 bad days a year; in 2016 to 2025, 4. The air has improved. The worst recent year was 2016, with 7 bad days on 245 monitored days.
| Date | AQI | Main pollutant |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-10 | 151 | Ozone |
| 2017-08-01 | 150 | Ozone |
| 2023-06-07 | 136 | Ozone |
| 2022-06-16 | 133 | Ozone |
| 2024-06-25 | 133 | Ozone |
Most days, not the worst ones
Across 2,312 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Douglas County rated Good on 87% of them, more often than the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 12%. The median day sat at AQI 39; one day in ten went above 57.
The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:
- ozone100%2,312 days
Douglas County by year
| Year | Days monitored | Good | Moderate | Over 100 | Over 150 | Median AQI | Highest AQI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025* | 129 | 110 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 97 |
| 2024 | 244 | 208 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 133 |
| 2023 | 245 | 199 | 40 | 6 | 0 | 41 | 136 |
| 2022 | 243 | 215 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 133 |
| 2021 | 244 | 215 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 101 |
| 2020 | 245 | 238 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 77 |
| 2019 | 245 | 212 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 40 | 126 |
| 2018 | 242 | 214 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 93 |
| 2017 | 230 | 199 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 150 |
| 2016 | 245 | 196 | 42 | 7 | 1 | 43 | 151 |
| 2015 | 234 | 206 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 112 |
| 2014 | 238 | 194 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 126 |
| 2013 | 241 | 220 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 101 |
| 2012 | 238 | 174 | 58 | 6 | 0 | 43 | 133 |
| 2011 | 245 | 177 | 56 | 12 | 0 | 44 | 147 |
| 2010 | 244 | 159 | 76 | 9 | 0 | 45 | 133 |
*2025 may be a partial year in EPA's file.
Georgia compared
- Wilkinson Countythin data
- Fulton County6/yr
- Henry County4/yr
- Rockdale County3/yr
- DeKalb County3/yr
- Dougherty County3/yr
- Muscogee County3/yr
- Gwinnett County2/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.