Bad Air Days in Jackson County, North Carolina

Not enough data

EPA monitors in Jackson County ran on too few days between 2016 and 2025 to give a fair yearly count (about 49% of days covered). Neighbouring counties below are a better guide.

What to buy, and what not to

EPA monitors here ran too few days to give a fair yearly count. Use AirNow for today's air.

Better or worse than it was

The worst recent year was 2016, with 9 bad days on 271 monitored days.

Date	AQI	Main pollutant
2016-11-09	155	PM2.5
2016-11-14	154	PM2.5
2016-11-06	150	PM2.5
2016-11-23	136	PM2.5
2016-05-25	133	Ozone

An ordinary day in Jackson

Across 1,078 monitored days from 2016 to 2021, the air in Jackson County rated Good on 73% of them, close to the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 27%. The median day sat at AQI 42; one day in ten went above 63.

The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:

fine particles (PM2.5)51%554 days
ozone49%524 days

Year by year

Year	Days monitored	Good	Moderate	Over 100	Over 150	Median AQI	Highest AQI
2021	100	75	25	0	0	38	73
2020	111	96	15	0	0	32	71
2019	103	85	18	0	0	34	66
2018	237	175	61	1	0	43	108
2017	256	183	73	0	0	45	100
2016	271	168	94	9	2	48	155
2015	257	185	72	0	0	44	100
2014	264	186	77	1	0	44	119
2013	253	182	70	1	0	46	119
2012	253	149	100	4	0	48	143
2011	265	145	116	4	0	49	126
2010	256	126	127	3	0	51	136

Elsewhere in North Carolina

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.