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Georgia Air Quality

Macon is the worst air in Georgia right now at an index of 58, which is Moderate, from fine particles (PM2.5). AirNow carries 11 reporting areas in the state. No air quality alert is in force. Wildfire smoke has been drawn over 161 of the state’s towns today.

Reporting areas: 11
Worst index now: 58
Alerts in force: 0
Towns under smoke: 161

Fine particles on the map

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

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 in Georgia right now. All Georgia warnings.

By city, now and the days ahead11

Every AirNow reporting area in Georgia: 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
Macon	58	Moderate	Good	Good	PM2.5
Douglas	54	Moderate	Not forecast	Not forecast	PM2.5
Warner Robins	53	Moderate	Not forecast	Not forecast	PM2.5
Atlanta	52	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	PM2.5
Columbus-Phenix City - GA and AL	52	Moderate	Good	Good	PM2.5
Gainesville	49	Good	Not forecast	Not forecast	PM2.5
Rome	49	Good	Not forecast	Not forecast	PM2.5
Athens-Clarke County	48	Good	Not forecast	Not forecast	PM2.5
Savannah	41	Good	Not forecast	Not forecast	PM2.5
Brunswick	39	Good	Not forecast	Not forecast	PM2.5
Albany	36	Good	Not forecast	Not forecast	PM2.5

Smoke

Where NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System analysts have drawn wildfire smoke over Georgia in today’s satellite imagery. Smoke drawn overhead is not always smoke at ground level; each town’s page carries the near-surface forecast.

Medium Atlanta, Columbus, Athens, South Fulton, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Johns Creek, Alpharetta, Marietta, Smyrna, Brookhaven, Stonecrest, Dunwoody, Augusta, Peachtree Corners, Gainesville and 93 more
Light Savannah, Macon, Albany, Warner Robins, Valdosta, Hinesville, Statesboro, Pooler, Thomasville, St. Marys, Tifton, Kingsland, Dublin, Brunswick, Americus, Perry and 36 more

Smoke on the radar over Georgia

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 Georgia: what is measured nearby, the category forecast for today and tomorrow, and NOAA’s model hour by hour. Largest first.

172 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.