Arizona air quality

Santa Rosa, Arizona Air Quality

Pima County32.324, -112.041

The nearest reporting area, West Pinal, measured an index of 30 this hour, which is Good. Arizona Department of Environmental Quality forecasts Good for West Pinal today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
30 · Good
Today
35 · Good
Tomorrow
41 · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Santa Rosa, Arizona. Open it for the live map, where it pans and zooms.

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Santa Rosa, Arizona Open the live map with the particulate forecast

Map layer from NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Alerts in force

An Air Quality Alert is issued by the National Weather Service on behalf of a state or local agency when pollution is expected to reach a level that harms health. An Air Stagnation Advisory means the air will not move enough to clear what is already in it.

None are in force near Santa Rosa right now. All Arizona warnings.

Now

Good

Reporting area
West Pinal, AZ, 45 miles away
Reported by
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Area index
30 · Good

Measured, not modeled. AirNow observations are preliminary until the operating agency certifies them, which happens months later.

Today and tomorrow

Arizona Department of Environmental Quality's own forecast for West Pinal, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood35Ozone
TomorrowGood41PM10
Wednesday, September 23Good36PM10
Thursday, September 24Good45PM10
Friday, September 25Good40PM10

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Arizona Department of Environmental Quality for West Pinal and filed with AirNow.

Ozone remained in the Good AQI range through the weekend. This week's daily ozone values will remain in the Good AQI category. There will be some variation depending on when more cloud cover and rain comes.

PM10 and PM2.5 remained in the Good AQI category through the weekend. Daily PM10 values are forecast to remain in the Good category the next several days. However, changes can come in hourly values due to rain or outflow winds this week. The highest chances for outflow winds to impact West Pinal will be Tuesday and Thursday in the afternoon and evening, and peaks in hourly PM10 AQI values have been added. Thursday is when rain could also reach more of the area which could limit PM10 production, and this will be evaluated in coming days. PM2.5 will have similar trends.

A. Hermansen

Last Update: Monday, September 21, 2026, 9:58 AM

Hour by hour

NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability, bias-corrected against monitors, for this town’s own coordinate. The worst hour ahead is an index of 36, Good, around Tue, 10:00 PM MST, from the run issued Mon, 5:00 AM MST. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Mon, 7:00 AM MST17Good3.6
Mon, 8:00 AM MST16Good2.6
Mon, 9:00 AM MST12Good1.6
Mon, 10:00 AM MST11Good1.8
Mon, 11:00 AM MST12Good2.5
Mon, 12:00 PM MST11Good2
Mon, 1:00 PM MST19Good1.721.7
Mon, 2:00 PM MST21Good1.224
Mon, 3:00 PM MST24Good0.826.2
Mon, 4:00 PM MST26Good0.428.3
Mon, 5:00 PM MST27Good0.829.8
Mon, 6:00 PM MST28Good1.230.7
Mon, 7:00 PM MST28Good1.530.4
Mon, 8:00 PM MST27Good1.129.3
Mon, 9:00 PM MST25Good0.528
Mon, 10:00 PM MST24Good0.626.9
Mon, 11:00 PM MST24Good2.626.3
Tue, 12:00 AM MST23Good2.625.8
Tue, 1:00 AM MST23Good1.925.5
Tue, 2:00 AM MST23Good2.525
Tue, 3:00 AM MST22Good1.924.8
Tue, 4:00 AM MST22Good1.424.9
Tue, 5:00 AM MST22Good1.224.7
Tue, 6:00 AM MST22Good1.424
Tue, 7:00 AM MST20Good2.922.8
Tue, 8:00 AM MST19Good2.621.5
Tue, 9:00 AM MST19Good1.220.7
Tue, 10:00 AM MST19Good1.320.4
Tue, 11:00 AM MST19Good1.120.4
Tue, 12:00 PM MST19Good120.5
Tue, 1:00 PM MST19Good1.821.4
Tue, 2:00 PM MST20Good1.922.9
Tue, 3:00 PM MST22Good1.324.7
Tue, 4:00 PM MST24Good0.926.9
Tue, 5:00 PM MST27Good0.729
Tue, 6:00 PM MST29Good1.331.6
Tue, 7:00 PM MST31Good1.534.4
Tue, 8:00 PM MST33Good1.636.8
Tue, 9:00 PM MST35Good3.238.6
Tue, 10:00 PM MST36Good2.439.3
Tue, 11:00 PM MST36Good2.139.5
Wed, 12:00 AM MST36Good339.3
Wed, 1:00 AM MST35Good2.538.5
Wed, 2:00 AM MST33Good3.536.8
Wed, 3:00 AM MST31Good2.134.6
Wed, 4:00 AM MST30Good1.532.7
Wed, 5:00 AM MST28Good2.630.9
Wed, 6:00 AM MST27Good229.8
Wed, 7:00 AM MST26Good2.928.9
Wed, 8:00 AM MST26Good2.828.2
Wed, 9:00 AM MST25Good1.527.7
Wed, 10:00 AM MST25Good1.527.6
Wed, 11:00 AM MST26Good1.328.2
Wed, 12:00 PM MST27Good1.329.3
Wed, 1:00 PM MST28Good1.630.7
Wed, 2:00 PM MST30Good0.832.1
Wed, 3:00 PM MST31Good0.833.6
Wed, 4:00 PM MST31Good0.434.8
Wed, 5:00 PM MST32Good0.335.9
Wed, 6:00 PM MST34Good0.337
Wed, 7:00 PM MST34Good0.937.4
Wed, 8:00 PM MST33Good0.636.9
Wed, 9:00 PM MST33Good0.536.1
Wed, 10:00 PM MST32Good1.935.6
Wed, 11:00 PM MST32Good3.535.3
Thu, 12:00 AM MST31Good3.534.9
Thu, 1:00 AM MST31Good2.534.3
Thu, 2:00 AM MST31Good1.833.4
Thu, 3:00 AM MST30Good2.332.7
Thu, 4:00 AM MST30Good2.632.3
Thu, 5:00 AM MST29Good4.232

Fine particles in micrograms per cubic meter, ozone in parts per billion as an 8-hour average. The index for each hour is EPA’s: the ozone figure is already the 8-hour average the ozone index is defined on, and the particle figure is run through EPA’s NowCast, which is how an hourly PM2.5 concentration becomes an index.

Smoke

NOAA’s analysts have not drawn smoke over Santa Rosa in satellite imagery today.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 0.3 µg/m³ around Tue, 9:00 PM MST.

Smoke on the radar over Santa Rosa

What this means

Good

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Who is affected
Nobody is expected to be affected.
What to do
It is a good day to be outside.
Index range
0 to 50

Category descriptions are the Environmental Protection Agency’s own.

What these numbers are. An index beside a monitor’s name is a measurement, published hourly by AirNow and preliminary until the operating agency certifies it. A category for today or tomorrow is a state or local agency forecaster’s own forecast for a reporting area. An hourly index is NOAA’s air quality model on a five-kilometer grid, not a reading from any instrument. Where a town has no monitor within reach, only the model figures appear, and the page says so.

Nearby

The nearest towns with a page of their own, closest first.

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Sources

Observations and daily forecasts from AirNow, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s program with NOAA, the National Park Service, NASA, tribal, state and local agencies. Hourly forecasts from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability. Smoke analysis from NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System. Alerts from the National Weather Service. Index categories and breakpoints are EPA’s, as revised in 2024.