Bad Air Days in Wakulla County, Florida: under 1 a Year

under 1 bad air day a year

Rare: among the cleanest-air counties EPA monitors. Ranked 814 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

Most bad days here fall in June and January and April and July. Averaged over 2016 to 2025.

Is a purifier worth it 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.

Better or worse than it was

In 2000 to 2009 this county averaged 6 bad days a year; in 2016 to 2025, under 1. The air has improved. The worst recent year was 2016, with 2 bad days on 352 monitored days.

Date	AQI	Main pollutant
2016-07-11	183	PM2.5
2020-06-26	164	PM2.5
2020-06-27	155	PM2.5
2024-04-24	139	PM2.5
2016-01-26	105	PM2.5

An ordinary day in Wakulla

Across 3,603 monitored days from 2016 to 2025, the air in Wakulla County rated Good on 75% of them, close to the 72% typical of monitored counties, and Moderate on 25%. The median day sat at AQI 41; one day in ten went above 57.

The pollutant setting the AQI on an ordinary day here:

fine particles (PM2.5)66%2,380 days
ozone33%1,189 days
carbon monoxide1%34 days

Year by year

Year	Days monitored	Good	Moderate	Over 100	Over 150	Median AQI	Highest AQI
2025*	365	276	89	0	0	41	80
2024	356	261	94	1	0	41	139
2023	365	272	93	0	0	39	80
2022	365	279	86	0	0	41	97
2021	365	284	81	0	0	41	81
2020	363	265	96	2	2	41	164
2019	361	275	86	0	0	39	84
2018	353	266	87	0	0	41	98
2017	358	250	108	0	0	41	93
2016	352	259	91	2	1	41	183
2015	357	247	110	0	0	42	95
2014	319	276	42	1	1	36	152
2013	364	332	32	0	0	35	97
2012	365	326	39	0	0	36	87
2011	363	302	61	0	0	38	91
2010	355	295	58	2	0	38	126

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

Florida compared

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.