North Carolina air quality

Reidsville, North Carolina Air Quality

Rockingham County36.355, -79.664

The nearest monitor to Reidsville, at BETHANY, 11 miles away, measured an index of 34 at Mon, 6:00 PM EDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection forecasts Good for Forsyth County-Winston-Salem-Greensboro-High Point today and Moderate tomorrow.

Measured now
34 · Good
Today
46 · Good
Tomorrow
51 · Moderate
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

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

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Reidsville, North Carolina 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 Reidsville right now. All North Carolina warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
BETHANY, 11 miles away (site 371570099)
Index measured
34 · Good
Measured at
Mon, 6:00 PM EDT
Ozone
37 ppb
Reporting area
Forsyth County-Winston-Salem-Greensboro-High Point, NC, 34 miles away
Reported by
Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection
Area index
36 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection's own forecast for Forsyth County-Winston-Salem-Greensboro-High Point, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood46Ozone
TomorrowModerate51Ozone
Wednesday, September 30Moderate64Ozone
Thursday, October 1Moderate70Ozone

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection for Forsyth County-Winston-Salem-Greensboro-High Point and filed with AirNow.

Air quality levels are holding in the upper GREEN range as sunny skies persist and temperatures slowly climb. Humidity levels are staying relatively low and are allowing the nighttime temperatures to fall back into the 50s. As high pressure continues to control the southeastern US, AQI levels will slowly increase each day this week as highs push back into the mid to upper 80s by Wednesday. AQI values should be in the YELLOW range for the next few days until another cold front arrives this weekend. (Bodenhamer)

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 71, Moderate, around Wed, 8:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Mon, 8:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Mon, 7:00 PM EDT41Good2.744.3
Mon, 8:00 PM EDT40Good3.843.6
Mon, 9:00 PM EDT39Good442.3
Mon, 10:00 PM EDT37Good4.940.2
Mon, 11:00 PM EDT34Good4.637.6
Tue, 12:00 AM EDT31Good4.734.8
Tue, 1:00 AM EDT30Good5.432.2
Tue, 2:00 AM EDT27Good4.729.5
Tue, 3:00 AM EDT24Good4.127
Tue, 4:00 AM EDT23Good3.725.2
Tue, 5:00 AM EDT21Good3.623.5
Tue, 6:00 AM EDT22Good4.322
Tue, 7:00 AM EDT24Good520.3
Tue, 8:00 AM EDT22Good3.318.9
Tue, 9:00 AM EDT24Good5.217.7
Tue, 10:00 AM EDT27Good5.717.5
Tue, 11:00 AM EDT31Good6.218.8
Tue, 12:00 PM EDT31Good5.621.3
Tue, 1:00 PM EDT30Good5.224.4
Tue, 2:00 PM EDT28Good4.927.9
Tue, 3:00 PM EDT31Good6.232
Tue, 4:00 PM EDT33Good5.336.2
Tue, 5:00 PM EDT37Good5.140.3
Tue, 6:00 PM EDT40Good5.743.5
Tue, 7:00 PM EDT41Good544.7
Tue, 8:00 PM EDT41Good4.344.4
Tue, 9:00 PM EDT40Good543.6
Tue, 10:00 PM EDT38Good4.541.9
Tue, 11:00 PM EDT36Good5.139.5
Wed, 12:00 AM EDT33Good5.136.6
Wed, 1:00 AM EDT31Good6.133
Wed, 2:00 AM EDT30Good5.929.7
Wed, 3:00 AM EDT29Good5.126.7
Wed, 4:00 AM EDT28Good4.724.3
Wed, 5:00 AM EDT26Good3.921.7
Wed, 6:00 AM EDT26Good4.719.8
Wed, 7:00 AM EDT27Good5.118.2
Wed, 8:00 AM EDT24Good3.817.2
Wed, 9:00 AM EDT31Good717
Wed, 10:00 AM EDT34Good6.717.8
Wed, 11:00 AM EDT33Good6.120
Wed, 12:00 PM EDT36Good723.4
Wed, 1:00 PM EDT41Good8.128.1
Wed, 2:00 PM EDT44Good8.533.7
Wed, 3:00 PM EDT48Good9.340.3
Wed, 4:00 PM EDT48Good8.647
Wed, 5:00 PM EDT49Good8.353.3
Wed, 6:00 PM EDT61Moderate858.2
Wed, 7:00 PM EDT67Moderate8.660.9
Wed, 8:00 PM EDT71Moderate8.961.2
Wed, 9:00 PM EDT67Moderate8.660.2
Wed, 10:00 PM EDT61Moderate8.558.1
Wed, 11:00 PM EDT50Good954.7
Thu, 12:00 AM EDT49Good9.850.5
Thu, 1:00 AM EDT51Moderate1045.8
Thu, 2:00 AM EDT52Moderate10.941.2
Thu, 3:00 AM EDT52Moderate9.937.4
Thu, 4:00 AM EDT52Moderate8.534.9
Thu, 5:00 AM EDT49Good7.632.8
Thu, 6:00 AM EDT48Good8.230.9
Thu, 7:00 AM EDT47Good8.328.5
Thu, 8:00 AM EDT42Good6.326.5

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 Reidsville in satellite imagery today.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 0.1 µg/m³ around Wed, 2:00 AM EDT.

Smoke on the radar over Reidsville

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 ReidsvilleWarnings in Rockingham CountyLive radar over ReidsvilleNorth Carolina 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.