Bad Air Days in Lynchburg City, Virginia

Not enough data

EPA monitors in Lynchburg City ran on too few days between 2016 and 2025 to give a fair yearly count (about 31% of days covered). Neighbouring counties below are a better guide.

Is a purifier worth it here?

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 2023, with 2 bad days on 119 monitored days.

Date	AQI	Main pollutant
2023-06-29	135	PM2.5
2023-07-17	106	PM2.5
2021-07-21	92	PM2.5
2023-06-08	77	PM2.5
2023-11-14	76	PM2.5

An ordinary day in Lynchburg City

Across 1,144 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Lynchburg City rated Good on 83% of them, more often than the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 17%. The median day sat at AQI 32; one day in ten went above 54.

The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:

fine particles (PM2.5)100%1,144 days

Year by year

Year	Days monitored	Good	Moderate	Over 100	Median AQI	Highest AQI
2025*	108	92	16	0	30	69
2024	118	102	16	0	28	61
2023	119	93	24	2	34	135
2022	116	97	19	0	29	60
2021	119	98	21	0	32	92
2020	110	99	11	0	28	59
2019	108	91	17	0	34	61
2018	112	88	24	0	34	60
2017	114	90	24	0	35	64
2016	120	96	24	0	38	65
2015	116	86	30	0	39	67
2014	115	83	32	0	39	67
2013	118	86	32	0	37	74
2012	115	83	32	0	41	69
2011	112	71	41	0	44	73
2010	117	62	55	0	48	86

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

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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.