Bad Air Days in Pike County, Georgia: 2 a Year
2 bad air days a year
About the middle of monitored US counties. Ranked 472 of 996 monitored counties, where 1 is worst.
What makes them bad: mostly ozone: summer smog (0% particle days).
Which months to watch
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- S
- O
- N
- D
Most bad days here fall in June and July and September and October. Averaged over 2016 to 2025.
What actually helps here
- 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.
The record for Pike
In 2000 to 2009 this county averaged 20 bad days a year; in 2016 to 2025, 2. The air has improved. The worst recent year was 2023, with 5 bad days on 361 monitored days.
| Date | AQI | Main pollutant |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-03 | 147 | Ozone |
| 2023-06-09 | 133 | Ozone |
| 2019-10-04 | 129 | Ozone |
| 2016-06-09 | 126 | Ozone |
| 2024-07-11 | 126 | Ozone |
An ordinary day in Pike
Across 3,455 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Pike County rated Good on 90% of them, more often than the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 9%. The median day sat at AQI 37; one day in ten went above 52.
The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:
- ozone100%3,455 days
Pike County by year
| Year | Days monitored | Good | Moderate | Over 100 | Over 150 | Median AQI | Highest AQI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025* | 359 | 319 | 37 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 108 |
| 2024 | 352 | 301 | 47 | 4 | 0 | 39 | 126 |
| 2023 | 361 | 309 | 47 | 5 | 0 | 39 | 133 |
| 2022 | 340 | 311 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 100 |
| 2021 | 352 | 326 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 80 |
| 2020 | 354 | 351 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 64 |
| 2019 | 353 | 307 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 37 | 147 |
| 2018 | 288 | 274 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 115 |
| 2017 | 357 | 329 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 119 |
| 2016 | 339 | 290 | 45 | 4 | 0 | 40 | 126 |
| 2015 | 355 | 319 | 33 | 3 | 1 | 35 | 161 |
| 2014 | 359 | 313 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 108 |
| 2013 | 334 | 307 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 126 |
| 2012 | 339 | 270 | 62 | 7 | 1 | 41 | 187 |
| 2011 | 324 | 248 | 66 | 10 | 0 | 42 | 150 |
| 2010 | 325 | 239 | 81 | 5 | 1 | 41 | 166 |
*2025 may be a partial year in EPA's file.
Elsewhere in Georgia
- Wilkinson Countythin data
- Fulton County6/yr
- Henry County4/yr
- Douglas County4/yr
- Rockdale County3/yr
- DeKalb County3/yr
- Dougherty County3/yr
- Muscogee 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.