Rating

Low PM2.5

Scale55-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Highlight places with low recent fine-particle pollution, emphasizing chronic year-round exposure while also penalizing recurring high-particle days.

Sources

Data behind the rating

1 source

EPA AirData

2023-2025 annual summaries; files refreshed June 25, 2026
Data
EPA annual PM2.5 concentration-by-monitor summaries for both annual mean and annual 98th-percentile daily concentration, retaining observed exceptional-event conditions and excluding superseded uncorrected T640/T640X methods.
What it tells us
Blends up to three monitoring sites near each named community's representative point. Distance, completeness, and explicit state or national fallback confidence limit what sparse monitoring can imply.

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