Florida air quality

Astor, Florida Air Quality

Lake County29.163, -81.525

The nearest monitor to Astor, at Flagler County, 27 miles away, measured an index of 16 at Sun, 11:00 AM EDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection forecasts Good for Daytona Beach today and Good tomorrow. NOAA’s analysts drew light wildfire smoke over the town today.

Measured now
16 · Good
Today
— · Good
Tomorrow
— · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

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

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Astor, Florida 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 Astor right now. All Florida warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Flagler County, 27 miles away (site 120350004)
Index measured
16 · Good
Measured at
Sun, 11:00 AM EDT
Ozone
26 ppb
Reporting area
Daytona Beach, FL, 18 miles away
Reported by
Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection
Area index
23 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection's own forecast for Daytona Beach, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGoodOzone
TomorrowGoodOzone
Tuesday, September 22GoodOzone
Wednesday, September 23GoodOzone

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 37, Good, around Tue, 6:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Sun, 8:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Sun, 10:00 AM EDT14Good2.8
Sun, 11:00 AM EDT14Good2.5
Sun, 12:00 PM EDT13Good2.4
Sun, 1:00 PM EDT13Good2.2
Sun, 2:00 PM EDT13Good2.3
Sun, 3:00 PM EDT13Good2.5
Sun, 4:00 PM EDT25Good2.727.1
Sun, 5:00 PM EDT27Good329.3
Sun, 6:00 PM EDT28Good2.830.5
Sun, 7:00 PM EDT28Good2.631
Sun, 8:00 PM EDT28Good2.530.6
Sun, 9:00 PM EDT27Good329.4
Sun, 10:00 PM EDT25Good3.727.6
Sun, 11:00 PM EDT23Good3.925.6
Mon, 12:00 AM EDT21Good3.923.2
Mon, 1:00 AM EDT20Good3.620.6
Mon, 2:00 AM EDT19Good3.618.1
Mon, 3:00 AM EDT19Good3.215.7
Mon, 4:00 AM EDT17Good2.613.8
Mon, 5:00 AM EDT16Good2.412.3
Mon, 6:00 AM EDT13Good1.911.1
Mon, 7:00 AM EDT10Good1.410.1
Mon, 8:00 AM EDT9Good1.79.5
Mon, 9:00 AM EDT12Good2.69.7
Mon, 10:00 AM EDT13Good2.511.4
Mon, 11:00 AM EDT12Good1.913.8
Mon, 12:00 PM EDT15Good1.816.4
Mon, 1:00 PM EDT18Good1.619.3
Mon, 2:00 PM EDT20Good1.622.4
Mon, 3:00 PM EDT23Good1.725.7
Mon, 4:00 PM EDT26Good2.228.8
Mon, 5:00 PM EDT29Good2.331.2
Mon, 6:00 PM EDT30Good232.3
Mon, 7:00 PM EDT30Good2.132.4
Mon, 8:00 PM EDT29Good2.232
Mon, 9:00 PM EDT28Good230.7
Mon, 10:00 PM EDT26Good2.528.9
Mon, 11:00 PM EDT24Good2.626.7
Tue, 12:00 AM EDT22Good3.124.1
Tue, 1:00 AM EDT19Good321.2
Tue, 2:00 AM EDT17Good318.2
Tue, 3:00 AM EDT16Good315.1
Tue, 4:00 AM EDT16Good2.912.5
Tue, 5:00 AM EDT18Good3.710.8
Tue, 6:00 AM EDT19Good3.89.6
Tue, 7:00 AM EDT19Good3.59
Tue, 8:00 AM EDT19Good3.59.1
Tue, 9:00 AM EDT23Good4.910.3
Tue, 10:00 AM EDT27Good5.712.9
Tue, 11:00 AM EDT30Good5.916.6
Tue, 12:00 PM EDT30Good5.420.7
Tue, 1:00 PM EDT28Good4.824.8
Tue, 2:00 PM EDT27Good4.528.7
Tue, 3:00 PM EDT30Good4.132.4
Tue, 4:00 PM EDT32Good4.536
Tue, 5:00 PM EDT35Good4.938.8
Tue, 6:00 PM EDT37Good540.1
Tue, 7:00 PM EDT37Good4.740.1
Tue, 8:00 PM EDT36Good439.3
Tue, 9:00 PM EDT35Good2.638.2
Tue, 10:00 PM EDT34Good2.237.1
Tue, 11:00 PM EDT32Good2.435.6
Wed, 12:00 AM EDT31Good2.833.6
Wed, 1:00 AM EDT29Good3.331.2
Wed, 2:00 AM EDT26Good4.128.6
Wed, 3:00 AM EDT24Good4.426.3
Wed, 4:00 AM EDT26Good5.324.1
Wed, 5:00 AM EDT27Good5.321.8
Wed, 6:00 AM EDT26Good4.519.4
Wed, 7:00 AM EDT24Good4.217.3
Wed, 8:00 AM EDT21Good3.216.1

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 Hazard Mapping System analysts drew light smoke over Astor in satellite imagery today (Sun, 8:00 AM EDT to Sun, 11:00 AM EDT). That is smoke seen from above; it is not always smoke at ground level.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 0.2 µg/m³ around Sun, 10:00 PM EDT.

Smoke on the radar over Astor

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.

Weather forecast for AstorWarnings in Lake CountyLive radar over AstorFlorida air quality

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.