Bad Air Days in Putnam County, Florida: under 1 a Year
under 1 bad air days a year
Rare: among the cleanest-air counties EPA monitors. Ranked 916 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
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Most bad days here fall in May and November. 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 0 bad days a year; in 2016 to 2025, under 1. Not much has changed. The worst recent year was 2024, with 2 bad days on 362 monitored days.
| Date | AQI | Main pollutant |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-29 | 112 | PM10 |
| 2024-11-21 | 101 | PM10 |
| 2024-09-16 | 90 | PM10 |
| 2024-10-16 | 84 | PM10 |
| 2024-05-28 | 74 | PM10 |
The air on a normal day
Across 3,470 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Putnam County rated Good on 98% of them, more often than the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 2%. The median day sat at AQI 17; one day in ten went above 31.
The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:
- coarse dust (PM10)100%3,470 days
Every recent year on file
| Year | Days monitored | Good | Moderate | Over 100 | Over 150 | Median AQI | Highest AQI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025* | 365 | 349 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 69 |
| 2024 | 362 | 329 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 112 |
| 2023 | 356 | 355 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 54 |
| 2022 | 323 | 321 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 58 |
| 2021 | 340 | 340 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 46 |
| 2020 | 366 | 365 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 67 |
| 2019 | 351 | 346 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 54 |
| 2018 | 302 | 301 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 51 |
| 2017 | 344 | 342 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 53 |
| 2016 | 361 | 361 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 45 |
| 2015 | 341 | 341 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 49 |
| 2014 | 292 | 292 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 35 |
| 2013 | 364 | 364 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 50 |
| 2012 | 352 | 349 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 63 |
| 2011 | 356 | 353 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 61 |
| 2010 | 359 | 357 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 57 |
*2025 may be a partial year in EPA's file.
Nearby counties on file
- Hillsborough County3/yr
- Miami-Dade County3/yr
- Duval County2/yr
- Broward County1/yr
- Osceola County1/yr
- Orange Countyunder 1/yr
- Polk Countyunder 1/yr
- Pinellas Countyunder 1/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.