Bad Air Days in Floyd County, Georgia: under 1 a Year

under 1 bad air days a year

Rare: among the cleanest-air counties EPA monitors. Ranked 877 of 996 monitored counties, where 1 is worst.

What makes them bad: mostly particles: smoke and dust (100% particle days).

Which months to watch

Most bad days here fall in March and April and June. Averaged over 2016 to 2025.

What to buy, and what not to

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

The worst recent year was 2021, with 2 bad days on 354 monitored days.

Date	AQI	Main pollutant
2021-04-07	141	PM2.5
2023-06-29	110	PM2.5
2021-03-11	106	PM2.5
2021-03-10	99	PM2.5
2023-03-21	92	PM2.5

An ordinary day in Floyd

Across 3,401 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Floyd County rated Good on 57% of them, less often than the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 43%. The median day sat at AQI 45; one day in ten went above 62.

The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:

fine particles (PM2.5)100%3,401 days

Floyd County by year

Year	Days monitored	Good	Moderate	Over 100	Over 150	Median AQI	Highest AQI
2025*	356	248	108	0	0	38	88
2024	361	256	105	0	0	38	89
2023	322	184	137	1	0	46	110
2022	356	256	100	0	0	37	84
2021	354	234	118	2	0	38	141
2020	327	208	119	0	0	42	82
2019	363	140	223	0	0	54	90
2018	333	151	182	0	0	52	82
2017	303	101	202	0	0	54	81
2016	326	167	159	0	0	49	88
2015	338	155	183	0	0	52	76
2014	362	62	299	1	0	60	109
2013	364	100	264	0	0	58	95
2012	365	18	347	0	0	68	99
2011	360	111	248	1	1	57	163
2010	363	54	307	2	2	61	156

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

Nearby counties on file

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.