Rhome, Texas Air Quality

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.

• Air Quality Alert Air Quality Alert issued September 24 at 2:46PM CDT by NWS Fort Worth TXWise; Denton; Collin; Hunt; Parker; Tarrant; Dallas; Rockwall; Kaufman; Hood; Johnson; Ellis; Henderson
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  AQAFWD The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued an Ozone Action Day for the Dallas-Fort Worth area for Friday, September 25, 2026. Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing high levels of ozone air pollution in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Friday. You can help prevent ozone pollution by sharing a ride, walking, riding a bicycle, taking your lunch to work, avoiding drive-through lanes, conserving energy, and keeping your vehicle properly tuned. For more information on ozone: Ozone: The Facts (www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/ozonefacts) Air North Texas: (www.airnorthtexas.org) EPA Air Now (www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action.local_state&STATEID=45&TAB=0) Take care of Texas (www.takecareoftexas.org) North Central Texas Council of Governments Air Quality (www.nctcog.org/trans/air/index.asp)

All Texas warnings

Moderate

Nearest monitor

Eagle Mountain Lake C75, 5 miles away (site 484390075)

Index measured

80 · Moderate

Measured at

Fri, 12:00 PM CDT

Ozone

65 ppb

Reporting area

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, 45 miles away

Reported by

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Area index

80 · Moderate

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

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's own forecast for Dallas-Fort Worth, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model. An action day has been declared.

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 147, Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups, around Fri, 8:00 PM CDT, from the run issued Fri, 7:00 AM CDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

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.

NOAA’s analysts have not drawn smoke over Rhome in satellite imagery today.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 1.7 µg/m³ around Fri, 6:00 PM CDT.

Smoke on the radar over Rhome

Moderate

Air quality is acceptable. There may be a risk for some people, particularly those who are unusually sensitive to air pollution.

Who is affected

People who are unusually sensitive to ozone or fine particles.

What to do

If you are unusually sensitive, consider making long or intense outdoor activity shorter or easier.

Index range

51 to 100

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.

The nearest towns with a page of their own, closest first.

• Aurora, TX2 miles
• New Fairview, TX3 miles
• Newark, TX4 miles
• Fairview, TX5 miles
• Boyd, TX6 miles
• Briar, TX6 miles
• Pecan Acres, TX6 miles
• Haslet, TX9 miles

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.