Bad Air Days in Edgecombe County, North Carolina: 0 a Year

0 bad air days a year

Rare: among the cleanest-air counties EPA monitors. Ranked 971 of 996 monitored counties, where 1 is worst.

What actually helps here

Bad air days are rare here. A standard furnace filter is enough; no purifier needed for outdoor air.
On the odd bad day, check AirNow and keep windows shut.

The worst days on file

In 2000 to 2009 this county averaged 26 bad days a year; in 2016 to 2025, 0. The air has improved.

Date	AQI	Main pollutant
2023-06-29	99	PM2.5
2016-04-19	97	Ozone
2020-06-28	95	PM2.5
2023-07-18	95	PM2.5
2016-05-26	93	Ozone

The air on a normal day

Across 3,566 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Edgecombe County rated Good on 80% of them, more often than the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 20%. The median day sat at AQI 38; one day in ten went above 55.

The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:

fine particles (PM2.5)60%2,143 days
ozone40%1,423 days

Edgecombe County by year

Year	Days monitored	Good	Moderate	Over 100	Over 150	Median AQI	Highest AQI
2025*	365	308	57	0	0	38	68
2024	354	302	52	0	0	37	80
2023	357	266	91	0	0	41	99
2022	356	312	44	0	0	37	93
2021	363	292	71	0	0	38	90
2020	336	287	49	0	0	35	95
2019	363	275	88	0	0	40	71
2018	354	286	68	0	0	36	80
2017	362	275	87	0	0	41	80
2016	356	257	99	0	0	40	97
2015	347	249	98	0	0	43	77
2014	294	191	103	0	0	43	84
2013	361	255	105	1	0	42	101
2012	359	211	144	4	1	46	161
2011	298	148	143	7	0	51	122
2010	263	147	112	4	0	48	136

*2025 may be a partial year in EPA's file.

North Carolina compared

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.