Missouri air quality

Flint Hill, Missouri Air Quality

Saint Charles County38.855, -90.861

The nearest monitor to Flint Hill, at Foley West, 13 miles away, measured an index of 33 at Mon, 12:00 AM CDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. St. Louis Metropolitan Area (American Lung Association) forecasts Good for Saint Louis today. NOAA’s analysts drew light wildfire smoke over the town today.

Measured now
33 · Good
Today
— · Good
Tomorrow
Not forecast
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

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

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Flint Hill, Missouri 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 Flint Hill right now. All Missouri warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Foley West, 13 miles away (site 291130004)
Index measured
33 · Good
Measured at
Mon, 12:00 AM CDT
Ozone
39 ppb
Reporting area
Saint Louis, MO, 17 miles away
Reported by
St. Louis Metropolitan Area (American Lung Association)
Area index
38 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

St. Louis Metropolitan Area (American Lung Association)'s own forecast for Saint Louis, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGoodOzone

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 Sun, 9:00 AM CDT, from the run issued Sun, 10:00 PM CDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Sun, 9:00 AM CDT48Good7.2
Sun, 10:00 AM CDT36Good5.1
Sun, 11:00 AM CDT34Good6.1
Sun, 12:00 PM CDT32Good5.5
Sun, 1:00 PM CDT36Good7.1
Sun, 2:00 PM CDT35Good6.3
Sun, 3:00 PM CDT37Good7.140.1
Sun, 4:00 PM CDT41Good7.644.8
Sun, 5:00 PM CDT44Good7.448.2
Sun, 6:00 PM CDT46Good7.250.2
Sun, 7:00 PM CDT46Good7.450.6
Sun, 8:00 PM CDT45Good4.749.4
Sun, 9:00 PM CDT44Good1.748
Sun, 10:00 PM CDT42Good3.445.6
Sun, 11:00 PM CDT39Good4.942.7
Mon, 12:00 AM CDT36Good4.339.4
Mon, 1:00 AM CDT33Good536.2
Mon, 2:00 AM CDT31Good4.433.5
Mon, 3:00 AM CDT29Good4.931.6
Mon, 4:00 AM CDT29Good630.2
Mon, 5:00 AM CDT32Good6.328.3
Mon, 6:00 AM CDT34Good6.726.3
Mon, 7:00 AM CDT34Good6.224.2
Mon, 8:00 AM CDT33Good5.922.4
Mon, 9:00 AM CDT35Good6.821
Mon, 10:00 AM CDT36Good6.920.5
Mon, 11:00 AM CDT38Good7.420.6
Mon, 12:00 PM CDT38Good6.921.8
Mon, 1:00 PM CDT35Good5.523.4
Mon, 2:00 PM CDT32Good4.725.7
Mon, 3:00 PM CDT32Good5.629
Mon, 4:00 PM CDT31Good5.632.6
Mon, 5:00 PM CDT32Good535.8
Mon, 6:00 PM CDT34Good4.937.8
Mon, 7:00 PM CDT35Good5.138.5
Mon, 8:00 PM CDT34Good6.637.6
Mon, 9:00 PM CDT34Good7.236.7
Mon, 10:00 PM CDT38Good7.835.8
Mon, 11:00 PM CDT39Good7.734.3
Tue, 12:00 AM CDT38Good6.432.2
Tue, 1:00 AM CDT41Good8.129.8
Tue, 2:00 AM CDT42Good827.2
Tue, 3:00 AM CDT43Good825
Tue, 4:00 AM CDT40Good6.523.7
Tue, 5:00 AM CDT39Good6.722.2
Tue, 6:00 AM CDT41Good7.719.8
Tue, 7:00 AM CDT42Good8.118.2
Tue, 8:00 AM CDT42Good7.817
Tue, 9:00 AM CDT42Good7.916.5
Tue, 10:00 AM CDT37Good5.117
Tue, 11:00 AM CDT32Good4.618.2
Tue, 12:00 PM CDT29Good4.919.9
Tue, 1:00 PM CDT30Good5.622
Tue, 2:00 PM CDT31Good625.5
Tue, 3:00 PM CDT35Good7.228.4
Tue, 4:00 PM CDT38Good7.931.4
Tue, 5:00 PM CDT43Good8.633.7
Tue, 6:00 PM CDT45Good8.635.3
Tue, 7:00 PM CDT41Good6.536
Tue, 8:00 PM CDT32Good3.835.4
Tue, 9:00 PM CDT31Good534.9
Tue, 10:00 PM CDT31Good5.633.9
Tue, 11:00 PM CDT34Good7.132.5
Wed, 12:00 AM CDT37Good730.6
Wed, 1:00 AM CDT35Good6.128.7
Wed, 2:00 AM CDT32Good5.327.2
Wed, 3:00 AM CDT30Good5.226.2
Wed, 4:00 AM CDT29Good5.126
Wed, 5:00 AM CDT29Good5.524.8
Wed, 6:00 AM CDT30Good5.623
Wed, 7:00 AM CDT33Good6.521.3

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 Flint Hill in satellite imagery today (Sun, 7:00 AM CDT to Sun, 10:00 AM CDT). That is smoke seen from above; it is not always smoke at ground level.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 0.9 µg/m³ around Sun, 10:00 PM CDT.

Smoke on the radar over Flint Hill

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 Flint HillWarnings in Saint Charles CountyLive radar over Flint HillMissouri 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.