Bad Air Days in Rapides Parish, Louisiana

Not enough data

EPA monitors in Rapides Parish ran on too few days between 2016 and 2025 to give a fair yearly count (about 32% of days covered). Neighbouring counties below are a better guide.

What actually helps here

EPA monitors here ran too few days to give a fair yearly count. Use AirNow for today's air.

The record for Rapides

The worst recent year was 2022, with 1 bad day on 119 monitored days.

Date	AQI	Main pollutant
2022-06-13	105	PM2.5
2020-06-26	103	PM2.5
2024-05-09	102	PM2.5
2018-07-16	92	PM2.5
2018-07-01	89	PM2.5

Most days, not the worst ones

Across 1,167 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Rapides Parish rated Good on 71% of them, close to the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 29%. The median day sat at AQI 39; one day in ten went above 58.

The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:

fine particles (PM2.5)100%1,167 days

Rapides Parish by year

Year	Days monitored	Good	Moderate	Over 100	Median AQI	Highest AQI
2025*	118	87	31	0	37	67
2024	121	85	35	1	39	102
2023	119	74	45	0	43	80
2022	119	85	33	1	38	105
2021	122	96	26	0	38	66
2020	121	95	25	1	34	103
2019	119	88	31	0	40	74
2018	119	84	35	0	41	92
2017	107	69	38	0	41	69
2016	102	68	34	0	45	66
2015	118	87	31	0	36	69
2014	290	121	168	1	52	106
2013	362	121	240	1	54	105
2012	362	62	300	0	57	90
2011	283	48	234	1	60	102
2010	119	70	49	0	46	79

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

Nearby counties on file

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.