Bad Air Days in Socorro County, New Mexico

Not enough data

EPA monitors in Socorro County ran on too few days between 2016 and 2025 to give a fair yearly count (about 30% 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.

The worst days on file

Date	AQI	Main pollutant
2025-06-15	85	PM2.5
2022-05-17	72	PM2.5
2016-06-17	71	PM2.5
2025-06-21	69	PM2.5
2022-05-20	63	PM2.5

The air on a normal day

Across 1,103 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Socorro 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 15; one day in ten went above 32.

The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:

fine particles (PM2.5)100%1,103 days

Year by year

Year	Days monitored	Good	Moderate	Over 100	Median AQI	Highest AQI
2025*	98	96	2	0	17	85
2024	120	120	0	0	16	47
2023	118	117	1	0	14	51
2022	115	111	4	0	15	72
2021	118	114	4	0	17	61
2020	111	107	4	0	14	56
2019	92	92	0	0	14	41
2018	112	107	5	0	18	61
2017	117	115	2	0	13	62
2016	102	101	1	0	15	71
2015	107	105	2	0	16	62
2014	96	94	2	0	19	62
2013	108	100	8	0	19	71
2012	96	90	4	2	25	145
2011	106	100	6	0	18	72
2010	107	107	0	0	15	31

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

Elsewhere in New Mexico

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.