Brownsburg, Indiana Air Quality
The nearest monitor to Brownsburg, at Indpls-W.18th St, 10 miles away, measured an index of 17 at Mon, 8:00 AM EDT, which is Good for fine particles (PM2.5). Indianapolis Office of Sustainability forecasts Good for Indianapolis today and Good tomorrow.
- Measured now
- 17 · Good
- Today
- — · Good
- Tomorrow
- — · Good
- Pollutant
- PM2.5
Fine particles on the map
Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Brownsburg, Indiana. Open it for the live map, where it pans and zooms.























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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 Brownsburg right now. All Indiana warnings.
Now
Good
- Nearest monitor
- Indpls-W.18th St, 10 miles away (site 180970081)
- Index measured
- 17 · Good
- Measured at
- Mon, 8:00 AM EDT
- Reporting area
- Indianapolis, IN, 13 miles away
- Reported by
- Indianapolis Office of Sustainability
- Area index
- 32 · Good
Measured, not modeled. AirNow observations are preliminary until the operating agency certifies them, which happens months later.
Today and tomorrow
Indianapolis Office of Sustainability's own forecast for Indianapolis, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.
| Day | Category | Index | Pollutant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | Good | PM2.5 | |
| Tomorrow | Good | PM2.5 | |
| Wednesday, September 23 | Good | PM2.5 |
The forecaster’s discussion
Written by Indianapolis Office of Sustainability for Indianapolis and filed with AirNow.
Central Regions: Ozone was Good over the past forecast period, while PM2.5 was a mixture of Good/Moderate. (Past Friday through Sunday.) As of 12Z this morning, on the radar is a widespread area of showers and isolated thunderstorms mainly around I-70 and south of I-70. This large body of precipitation is moving slowly east southeast. Meanwhile, a stationary boundary is lingering to the south of Indiana, over Kentucky this morning and will remain today, before finally dropping south of Kentucky by this evening. Rain will eventually diminish throughout the day as the boundary drops farther south and conditions will become mostly cloudy. Highs this afternoon will have quite the gradient ranging from the mid 60's (north) to around 80 (southern counties) of central Indiana. Dew points will be in the lower 60's. Winds will be northeast at 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. A weak wave moves across the area on Tuesday and could mean some isolated showers and thunderstorms. Seasonable temperatures will continue into tomorrow (Tuesday) and actually through the rest of the work week! Look for highs on Tuesday afternoon in the upper 60's (north) to mid-70's (south) with mostly cloudy skies. Dew points will be in the upper 50's. Winds will be northeast at 10 mph with gusts to 20 mph. Similar high temperatures and dew points are in store for Wednesday. Winds will continue to be from the northeast at 10 mph. As for guidance this forecast period, the Canadian is predicting Ozone to be Good through Wednesday. The 06Z BC NOAA model is also predicting Good ozone through Wednesday, which both models make sense as the area is getting a decent rain today, which may help clean out the area. Then the winds remain out of the northeast through the period at or above 10 mph, and it's hard to get Ozone growth this these kind of winds. Will therefore go with Good for ozone for the entire period for both sites, Terre Haute and Indianapolis. As for PM2.5, the NOAA model is also predicting Good through Wednesday, which makes sense for the above reasoning for Ozone. Will as a result go with Good for the entire period for both sites for PM2.5 as well.
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 50, Good, around Wed, 10:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Mon, 2:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.
| Hour | Index | Category | PM2.5 | Ozone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon, 4:00 AM EDT | 24 | Good | 3.9 | |
| Mon, 5:00 AM EDT | 23 | Good | 3.9 | |
| Mon, 6:00 AM EDT | 24 | Good | 4.6 | |
| Mon, 7:00 AM EDT | 24 | Good | 4.3 | |
| Mon, 8:00 AM EDT | 26 | Good | 5.3 | |
| Mon, 9:00 AM EDT | 29 | Good | 6.1 | |
| Mon, 10:00 AM EDT | 33 | Good | 6.7 | 16.3 |
| Mon, 11:00 AM EDT | 30 | Good | 4.8 | 16.8 |
| Mon, 12:00 PM EDT | 22 | Good | 2.7 | 17.4 |
| Mon, 1:00 PM EDT | 18 | Good | 2.6 | 18.4 |
| Mon, 2:00 PM EDT | 18 | Good | 2.3 | 19.1 |
| Mon, 3:00 PM EDT | 19 | Good | 2.6 | 20.1 |
| Mon, 4:00 PM EDT | 19 | Good | 2.8 | 20.7 |
| Mon, 5:00 PM EDT | 19 | Good | 3.9 | 21.3 |
| Mon, 6:00 PM EDT | 22 | Good | 4.6 | 21.3 |
| Mon, 7:00 PM EDT | 21 | Good | 3.7 | 20.6 |
| Mon, 8:00 PM EDT | 22 | Good | 4.2 | 20 |
| Mon, 9:00 PM EDT | 29 | Good | 6.6 | 19.5 |
| Mon, 10:00 PM EDT | 31 | Good | 5.9 | 19.9 |
| Mon, 11:00 PM EDT | 26 | Good | 3.9 | 20.2 |
| Tue, 12:00 AM EDT | 22 | Good | 3.1 | 20.9 |
| Tue, 1:00 AM EDT | 22 | Good | 3.9 | 20.9 |
| Tue, 2:00 AM EDT | 25 | Good | 5.3 | 20.5 |
| Tue, 3:00 AM EDT | 29 | Good | 5.9 | 20.3 |
| Tue, 4:00 AM EDT | 27 | Good | 4.5 | 20 |
| Tue, 5:00 AM EDT | 23 | Good | 3.5 | 19.1 |
| Tue, 6:00 AM EDT | 22 | Good | 3.9 | 17.6 |
| Tue, 7:00 AM EDT | 27 | Good | 5.9 | 15.7 |
| Tue, 8:00 AM EDT | 27 | Good | 4.7 | 13.7 |
| Tue, 9:00 AM EDT | 26 | Good | 4.8 | 12.6 |
| Tue, 10:00 AM EDT | 28 | Good | 5.5 | 12.5 |
| Tue, 11:00 AM EDT | 28 | Good | 5.1 | 12.9 |
| Tue, 12:00 PM EDT | 27 | Good | 4.8 | 14.4 |
| Tue, 1:00 PM EDT | 28 | Good | 5 | 16.3 |
| Tue, 2:00 PM EDT | 27 | Good | 4.7 | 17.8 |
| Tue, 3:00 PM EDT | 29 | Good | 5.9 | 20 |
| Tue, 4:00 PM EDT | 34 | Good | 7.1 | 22.4 |
| Tue, 5:00 PM EDT | 41 | Good | 8.5 | 24.9 |
| Tue, 6:00 PM EDT | 42 | Good | 8.1 | 26.7 |
| Tue, 7:00 PM EDT | 38 | Good | 5.9 | 27.3 |
| Tue, 8:00 PM EDT | 29 | Good | 3.6 | 27.1 |
| Tue, 9:00 PM EDT | 28 | Good | 5 | 26.6 |
| Tue, 10:00 PM EDT | 32 | Good | 6.3 | 26.7 |
| Tue, 11:00 PM EDT | 28 | Good | 4.6 | 26.4 |
| Wed, 12:00 AM EDT | 27 | Good | 4.7 | 26 |
| Wed, 1:00 AM EDT | 26 | Good | 4.4 | 25.4 |
| Wed, 2:00 AM EDT | 22 | Good | 3.3 | 24.7 |
| Wed, 3:00 AM EDT | 22 | Good | 3.4 | 24.4 |
| Wed, 4:00 AM EDT | 22 | Good | 4.2 | 23.9 |
| Wed, 5:00 AM EDT | 23 | Good | 4.6 | 22.8 |
| Wed, 6:00 AM EDT | 24 | Good | 4.6 | 21.2 |
| Wed, 7:00 AM EDT | 24 | Good | 4.2 | 19.3 |
| Wed, 8:00 AM EDT | 28 | Good | 5.9 | 17.5 |
| Wed, 9:00 AM EDT | 29 | Good | 5.5 | 16 |
| Wed, 10:00 AM EDT | 25 | Good | 3.7 | 15.1 |
| Wed, 11:00 AM EDT | 22 | Good | 3.4 | 14.3 |
| Wed, 12:00 PM EDT | 23 | Good | 4.5 | 14.2 |
| Wed, 1:00 PM EDT | 25 | Good | 4.9 | 14.7 |
| Wed, 2:00 PM EDT | 28 | Good | 6 | 15.4 |
| Wed, 3:00 PM EDT | 34 | Good | 7.3 | 16.7 |
| Wed, 4:00 PM EDT | 41 | Good | 8.6 | 18 |
| Wed, 5:00 PM EDT | 45 | Good | 8.9 | 19.3 |
| Wed, 6:00 PM EDT | 48 | Good | 9.1 | 19.9 |
| Wed, 7:00 PM EDT | 46 | Good | 8.1 | 20.9 |
| Wed, 8:00 PM EDT | 39 | Good | 5.9 | 21.5 |
| Wed, 9:00 PM EDT | 44 | Good | 8.8 | 21.7 |
| Wed, 10:00 PM EDT | 50 | Good | 10.1 | 22.2 |
| Wed, 11:00 PM EDT | 49 | Good | 9 | 22.4 |
| Thu, 12:00 AM EDT | 49 | Good | 8.9 | 22.5 |
| Thu, 1:00 AM EDT | 46 | Good | 7.6 | 21.8 |
| Thu, 2:00 AM EDT | 42 | Good | 6.3 | 21 |
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 Brownsburg in satellite imagery today.
NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 0.1 µg/m³ around Sun, 11:00 PM EDT.
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.