Bad Air Days in Muscogee County, Georgia: 3 a Year
3 bad air days a year
About the middle of monitored US counties. Ranked 431 of 996 monitored counties, where 1 is worst.
What makes them bad: mostly particles: smoke and dust (92% 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 March and February. 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
In 2000 to 2009 this county averaged 17 bad days a year; in 2016 to 2025, 3. The air has improved. The worst recent year was 2024, with 7 bad days on 366 monitored days.
| Date | AQI | Main pollutant |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-27 | 166 | PM2.5 |
| 2021-03-08 | 155 | PM2.5 |
| 2025-03-23 | 155 | PM2.5 |
| 2023-03-08 | 154 | PM2.5 |
| 2022-03-03 | 149 | PM2.5 |
The air on a normal day
Across 3,628 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Muscogee County rated Good on 59% of them, less often than the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 40%. The median day sat at AQI 46; one day in ten went above 63.
The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:
- fine particles (PM2.5)78%2,817 days
- ozone22%811 days
Every recent year on file
| Year | Days monitored | Good | Moderate | Over 100 | Over 150 | Median AQI | Highest AQI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025* | 365 | 199 | 161 | 5 | 2 | 48 | 166 |
| 2024 | 366 | 193 | 166 | 7 | 0 | 49 | 127 |
| 2023 | 365 | 154 | 208 | 3 | 1 | 52 | 154 |
| 2022 | 365 | 214 | 149 | 2 | 0 | 45 | 149 |
| 2021 | 353 | 233 | 118 | 2 | 1 | 43 | 155 |
| 2020 | 366 | 257 | 108 | 1 | 0 | 42 | 101 |
| 2019 | 364 | 209 | 155 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 90 |
| 2018 | 364 | 257 | 107 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 98 |
| 2017 | 360 | 213 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 99 |
| 2016 | 360 | 226 | 129 | 5 | 0 | 44 | 148 |
| 2015 | 349 | 208 | 140 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 109 |
| 2014 | 365 | 181 | 183 | 1 | 0 | 51 | 102 |
| 2013 | 365 | 209 | 155 | 1 | 0 | 47 | 111 |
| 2012 | 366 | 181 | 183 | 2 | 0 | 51 | 104 |
| 2011 | 365 | 138 | 223 | 4 | 0 | 54 | 118 |
| 2010 | 365 | 130 | 232 | 3 | 2 | 55 | 270 |
*2025 may be a partial year in EPA's file.
Nearby counties on file
- Wilkinson Countythin data
- Fulton County6/yr
- Henry County4/yr
- Douglas County4/yr
- Rockdale County3/yr
- DeKalb County3/yr
- Dougherty County3/yr
- Gwinnett County2/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.