Bad Air Days in Jefferson County, Oklahoma: 5 a Year
5 bad air days a year
More bad air days than three quarters of monitored counties. Ranked 222 of 996 monitored counties, where 1 is worst.
What makes them bad: mostly ozone: summer smog (0% particle days).
The bad-air season here
- J
- F
- M
- A
- M
- J
- J
- A
- S
- O
- N
- D
Most bad days here fall in August and July. Averaged over 2016 to 2025.
What actually helps 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.
Better or worse than it was
In 2000 to 2009 this county averaged 33 bad days a year; in 2016 to 2025, 5. The air has improved. The worst recent year was 2023, with 5 bad days on 231 monitored days.
| Date | AQI | Main pollutant |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-28 | 151 | Ozone |
| 2023-08-09 | 133 | Ozone |
| 2018-08-03 | 126 | Ozone |
| 2023-08-18 | 126 | Ozone |
| 2018-08-02 | 122 | Ozone |
The air on a normal day
Across 1,049 monitored days from 2017 to 2024, the air in Jefferson County rated Good on 77% of them, more often than the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 22%. The median day sat at AQI 43; one day in ten went above 66.
The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:
- ozone100%1,049 days
Year by year
| Year | Days monitored | Good | Moderate | Over 100 | Over 150 | Median AQI | Highest AQI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 305 | 247 | 55 | 3 | 0 | 42 | 108 |
| 2023 | 231 | 152 | 74 | 5 | 0 | 46 | 133 |
| 2018 | 267 | 198 | 64 | 5 | 1 | 43 | 151 |
| 2017 | 246 | 207 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 108 |
| 2014 | 331 | 275 | 54 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 133 |
| 2013 | 287 | 207 | 72 | 8 | 0 | 43 | 133 |
| 2011 | 287 | 165 | 96 | 26 | 2 | 48 | 159 |
| 2010 | 142 | 118 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 119 |
Oklahoma compared
- Love County10/yr
- Tulsa County6/yr
- Oklahoma County6/yr
- McClain County5/yr
- Ottawa County4/yr
- Carter County4/yr
- Washington County4/yr
- Cleveland County3/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.