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

under 1 bad air day a year

Fewer bad air days than most monitored US counties. Ranked 716 of 996 monitored counties, where 1 is worst.

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

The bad-air season here

Most bad days here fall in July and December and March and April and June and October. 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.

Better or worse than it was

The worst recent year was 2023, with 4 bad days on 359 monitored days.

Date	AQI	Main pollutant
2024-12-08	154	PM2.5
2017-04-16	151	PM2.5
2020-06-26	141	PM2.5
2023-12-31	126	PM2.5
2023-10-03	112	PM2.5

An ordinary day in Lowndes

Across 3,249 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Lowndes County rated Good on 56% of them, less often than the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 43%. The median day sat at AQI 47; one day in ten went above 62.

The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:

fine particles (PM2.5)100%3,249 days

Year by year

Year	Days monitored	Good	Moderate	Over 100	Over 150	Median AQI	Highest AQI
2025*	365	187	178	0	0	49	88
2024	342	212	128	2	1	44	154
2023	359	188	167	4	0	48	126
2022	354	191	163	0	0	48	100
2021	358	213	145	0	0	46	86
2020	202	143	58	1	0	40	141
2019	310	177	133	0	0	47	71
2018	315	167	148	0	0	49	94
2017	317	154	162	1	1	51	151
2016	327	201	126	0	0	43	77
2015	357	166	191	0	0	51	89
2014	339	164	175	0	0	51	90
2013	363	195	165	3	0	48	118
2012	345	63	280	2	0	57	132
2011	339	40	289	10	1	62	155
2010	332	46	280	6	2	59	161

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

Elsewhere in Georgia

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.