Colorado air quality

Perry Park, Colorado Air Quality

Douglas County39.257, -104.992

The nearest monitor to Perry Park, at Chatfield Park - 11500 N. Roxborough Park Rd., 20 miles away, measured an index of 21 at Tue, 7:00 AM MDT, which is Good for fine particles (PM2.5). Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment forecasts Good for Colorado Springs today.

Measured now
21 · Good
Today
— · Good
Tomorrow
Not forecast
Pollutant
PM2.5

Fine particles on the map

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

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Perry Park, Colorado 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 Perry Park right now. All Colorado warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Chatfield Park - 11500 N. Roxborough Park Rd., 20 miles away (site 080350004)
Index measured
21 · Good
Measured at
Tue, 7:00 AM MDT
Fine particles
4.4 µg/m³
Ozone
11 ppb
Reporting area
Colorado Springs, CO, 32 miles away
Reported by
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Area index
32 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's own forecast for Colorado Springs, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGoodPM2.5

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 48, Good, around Thu, 6:00 PM MDT, from the run issued Tue, 12:00 AM MDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Tue, 2:00 AM MDT5Good1
Tue, 3:00 AM MDT5Good1
Tue, 4:00 AM MDT7Good1.5
Tue, 5:00 AM MDT7Good1.2
Tue, 6:00 AM MDT5Good0.6
Tue, 7:00 AM MDT4Good0.6
Tue, 8:00 AM MDT27Good0.629.9
Tue, 9:00 AM MDT27Good0.729.9
Tue, 10:00 AM MDT28Good0.830.3
Tue, 11:00 AM MDT28Good1.131
Tue, 12:00 PM MDT30Good0.632.4
Tue, 1:00 PM MDT31Good0.533.8
Tue, 2:00 PM MDT32Good0.535.9
Tue, 3:00 PM MDT35Good0.338.1
Tue, 4:00 PM MDT37Good0.540.5
Tue, 5:00 PM MDT39Good1.642.8
Tue, 6:00 PM MDT41Good0.344.2
Tue, 7:00 PM MDT41Good0.645
Tue, 8:00 PM MDT42Good0.745.2
Tue, 9:00 PM MDT42Good0.645
Tue, 10:00 PM MDT41Good0.644.5
Tue, 11:00 PM MDT40Good0.643.3
Wed, 12:00 AM MDT38Good0.641.6
Wed, 1:00 AM MDT36Good0.539.4
Wed, 2:00 AM MDT34Good0.537.7
Wed, 3:00 AM MDT33Good0.536.1
Wed, 4:00 AM MDT31Good0.434.8
Wed, 5:00 AM MDT31Good0.434
Wed, 6:00 AM MDT31Good0.533.2
Wed, 7:00 AM MDT31Good0.533.1
Wed, 8:00 AM MDT30Good0.532.8
Wed, 9:00 AM MDT30Good0.432.4
Wed, 10:00 AM MDT30Good0.432.2
Wed, 11:00 AM MDT30Good0.332.3
Wed, 12:00 PM MDT30Good0.332.6
Wed, 1:00 PM MDT31Good0.333.1
Wed, 2:00 PM MDT31Good0.334.1
Wed, 3:00 PM MDT32Good0.335.4
Wed, 4:00 PM MDT33Good0.436.9
Wed, 5:00 PM MDT35Good0.438.6
Wed, 6:00 PM MDT37Good0.440.3
Wed, 7:00 PM MDT38Good0.541.8
Wed, 8:00 PM MDT39Good0.642.9
Wed, 9:00 PM MDT40Good0.743
Wed, 10:00 PM MDT39Good0.742.8
Wed, 11:00 PM MDT38Good0.641.8
Thu, 12:00 AM MDT37Good0.541
Thu, 1:00 AM MDT37Good0.440.5
Thu, 2:00 AM MDT36Good0.439.7
Thu, 3:00 AM MDT35Good0.438.9
Thu, 4:00 AM MDT35Good0.438.6
Thu, 5:00 AM MDT35Good0.438.9
Thu, 6:00 AM MDT36Good0.339.2
Thu, 7:00 AM MDT36Good0.339.9
Thu, 8:00 AM MDT37Good0.340.9
Thu, 9:00 AM MDT38Good0.341.5
Thu, 10:00 AM MDT39Good0.342.4
Thu, 11:00 AM MDT40Good0.343.6
Thu, 12:00 PM MDT41Good1.544.6
Thu, 1:00 PM MDT42Good2.545.8
Thu, 2:00 PM MDT44Good2.247.3
Thu, 3:00 PM MDT44Good1.449
Thu, 4:00 PM MDT46Good0.950.4
Thu, 5:00 PM MDT47Good1.151.7
Thu, 6:00 PM MDT48Good1.452.6
Thu, 7:00 PM MDT48Good0.352.4
Thu, 8:00 PM MDT47Good0.751.5
Thu, 9:00 PM MDT46Good0.650
Thu, 10:00 PM MDT44Good0.747.7
Thu, 11:00 PM MDT42Good0.845.3
Fri, 12:00 AM MDT39Good0.842.8

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 Perry Park in satellite imagery today.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 0.2 µg/m³ around Tue, 2:00 AM MDT.

Smoke on the radar over Perry Park

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.