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Florida Air Quality

Tallahassee is the worst air in Florida right now at an index of 55, which is Moderate, from fine particles (PM2.5). AirNow carries 44 reporting areas in the state. No air quality alert is in force.

Reporting areas: 44
Worst index now: 55
Alerts in force: 0
Towns under smoke: Unavailable

Radar

Reflectivity now over Florida. Open it to see the particulate forecast on the map.

Open the live radar with the particulate forecast

Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and 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 in Florida right now. All Florida warnings.

By city, now and the days ahead44

Every AirNow reporting area in Florida: what its monitors measured this hour, and what the state or local agency that forecasts for it expects today and tomorrow. Each area links to the nearest town’s page.

Reporting area	Now	Category now	Today	Tomorrow	Pollutant
Tallahassee	55	Moderate	Good	Good	PM2.5
Hamilton County	51	Moderate	Good	Good	PM2.5
Columbia and Suwannee Counties	47	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Pensacola	47	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Bay and Gulf Counties	46	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Ocala	45	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Holmes, Jackson, and Washington Counties	42	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Citrus County	41	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Baker County	40	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Gainesville	39	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Jacksonville	35	Good	Not forecast	Not forecast	PM2.5
Tampa	35	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Seminole County	34	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
St. Petersburg	30	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Miami	29	Good	Good	Good	Ozone
Orlando	29	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Melbourne	27	Good	Good	Good	Ozone
Indian River County	26	Good	Good	Good	Ozone
Sarasota	25	Good	Good	Good	Ozone
Naples	24	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Daytona Beach	23	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Belle Glade	22	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Lakeland	20	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Broward County	19	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Fort Pierce	19	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Okaloosa County	19	Good	Good	Good	Ozone
West Palm Beach	16	Good	Good	Good	PM2.5
Fort Myers	15	Good	Good	Good	Ozone
Highlands County	15	Good	Good	Good	Ozone
Liberty County	14	Good	Good	Good	Ozone
Putnam County	12	Good	Good	Good	PM10
Holiday	6	Good	Good	Good	Ozone
Lake County	6	Good	Good	Good	Ozone
Clay County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone
Dixie County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone
Glades County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone
Hardee County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone
Monroe County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone
Nassau County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone
Okeechobee County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone
Osceola County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone
Sumter County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone
Taylor County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone
Walton County		No reading	Good	Good	Ozone

Smoke

NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis could not be read just now.

Smoke on the radar over Florida

What this means

The index runs from 0 to 500. Good is 0 to 50, Moderate to 100, Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups to 150, Unhealthy to 200, Very Unhealthy to 300, and Hazardous above that. The figure reported for a place is the highest index among the pollutants measured there, and the pollutant that produced it is named beside it.

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.

Towns

Air quality for any town in Florida: what is measured nearby, the category forecast for today and tomorrow, and NOAA’s model hour by hour. Largest first.

594 smaller towns

Smaller places have pages too; search for one on the air quality landing page.

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.