Vermont air quality

Saint Albans, Vermont Air Quality

Franklin County44.811, -73.083

The nearest monitor to Saint Albans, at Frelighsburg Site B, 19 miles away, measured an index of 18 at Sun, 11:00 AM EDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Vermont Air Quality & Climate Division forecasts Good for Burlington today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
18 · Good
Today
30 · Good
Tomorrow
30 · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

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

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Saint Albans, Vermont 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 Saint Albans right now. All Vermont warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Frelighsburg Site B, 19 miles away (site 124000055502)
Index measured
18 · Good
Measured at
Sun, 11:00 AM EDT
Ozone
17 ppb
Reporting area
Burlington, VT, 24 miles away
Reported by
Vermont Air Quality & Climate Division
Area index
23 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Vermont Air Quality & Climate Division's own forecast for Burlington, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood30PM2.5
TomorrowGood30PM2.5

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Vermont Air Quality & Climate Division for Burlington and filed with AirNow.

Expect generally good air quality across Vermont on Monday, September 21st.

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 37, Good, around Mon, 4:00 AM EDT, from the run issued Sun, 2:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Sun, 4:00 AM EDT8Good1.5
Sun, 5:00 AM EDT8Good1.5
Sun, 6:00 AM EDT8Good1.3
Sun, 7:00 AM EDT7Good1.2
Sun, 8:00 AM EDT6Good0.9
Sun, 9:00 AM EDT6Good1.1
Sun, 10:00 AM EDT19Good1.720.1
Sun, 11:00 AM EDT19Good2.120.1
Sun, 12:00 PM EDT19Good2.720.1
Sun, 1:00 PM EDT19Good3.520.1
Sun, 2:00 PM EDT19Good420.2
Sun, 3:00 PM EDT21Good4.320.3
Sun, 4:00 PM EDT23Good4.720.4
Sun, 5:00 PM EDT23Good4.220.4
Sun, 6:00 PM EDT23Good420.6
Sun, 7:00 PM EDT21Good3.520.6
Sun, 8:00 PM EDT21Good3.720.7
Sun, 9:00 PM EDT20Good3.620.6
Sun, 10:00 PM EDT21Good3.820.5
Sun, 11:00 PM EDT21Good3.920.4
Mon, 12:00 AM EDT21Good4.120.3
Mon, 1:00 AM EDT22Good4.420
Mon, 2:00 AM EDT24Good519.5
Mon, 3:00 AM EDT29Good6.218.9
Mon, 4:00 AM EDT37Good8.118.3
Mon, 5:00 AM EDT37Good6.817.7
Mon, 6:00 AM EDT27Good2.817.1
Mon, 7:00 AM EDT15Good0.616.9
Mon, 8:00 AM EDT15Good0.616.7
Mon, 9:00 AM EDT15Good0.316.8
Mon, 10:00 AM EDT16Good117.2
Mon, 11:00 AM EDT16Good1.417.7
Mon, 12:00 PM EDT17Good1.918.4
Mon, 1:00 PM EDT18Good219.4
Mon, 2:00 PM EDT19Good1.920.5
Mon, 3:00 PM EDT19Good1.921.5
Mon, 4:00 PM EDT20Good1.922.8
Mon, 5:00 PM EDT21Good1.723.9
Mon, 6:00 PM EDT22Good1.424.7
Mon, 7:00 PM EDT23Good1.125.4
Mon, 8:00 PM EDT23Good1.625.7
Mon, 9:00 PM EDT23Good2.325.6
Mon, 10:00 PM EDT23Good2.225.2
Mon, 11:00 PM EDT22Good2.324.5
Tue, 12:00 AM EDT21Good1.923.4
Tue, 1:00 AM EDT20Good1.722.1
Tue, 2:00 AM EDT19Good1.620.7
Tue, 3:00 AM EDT18Good1.519.1
Tue, 4:00 AM EDT16Good1.317.7
Tue, 5:00 AM EDT15Good1.216.3
Tue, 6:00 AM EDT14Good1.315.3
Tue, 7:00 AM EDT13Good1.414.3
Tue, 8:00 AM EDT12Good1.313.2
Tue, 9:00 AM EDT11Good2.212.3
Tue, 10:00 AM EDT14Good3.311.7
Tue, 11:00 AM EDT18Good411.7
Tue, 12:00 PM EDT21Good4.412.4
Tue, 1:00 PM EDT23Good4.413.6
Tue, 2:00 PM EDT22Good415
Tue, 3:00 PM EDT20Good3.216.8
Tue, 4:00 PM EDT18Good318.8
Tue, 5:00 PM EDT19Good3.220.7
Tue, 6:00 PM EDT20Good2.722.4
Tue, 7:00 PM EDT21Good1.823.5
Tue, 8:00 PM EDT21Good1.423.7
Tue, 9:00 PM EDT21Good1.723.5
Tue, 10:00 PM EDT21Good1.723
Tue, 11:00 PM EDT20Good2.322.1
Wed, 12:00 AM EDT19Good2.121
Wed, 1:00 AM EDT18Good1.919.8
Wed, 2:00 AM EDT17Good1.518.5

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 Saint Albans in satellite imagery today.

NOAA’s model forecasts no measurable smoke near the ground here over the next two days.

Smoke on the radar over Saint Albans

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 Saint AlbansWarnings in Franklin CountyLive radar over Saint AlbansVermont 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.