King and Queen County, Virginia 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.

None are in force near King and Queen County right now. All Virginia warnings.

Good

Nearest monitor

HANOVER, 19 miles away (site 510850003)

Index measured

3 · Good

Measured at

Mon, 12:00 AM EDT

Ozone

1 ppb

Reporting area

Richmond, VA, 33 miles away

Reported by

Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality

Area index

37 · Good

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

Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality's own forecast for Richmond, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

NOAA’s air quality model could not be read for this point just now. It runs twice a day and covers the lower 48, Alaska and Hawaii.

NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System analysts drew medium smoke over King and Queen County in satellite imagery today (Sun, 8:00 AM EDT to Sun, 11:00 AM EDT). That is smoke seen from above; it is not always smoke at ground level.

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

Smoke on the radar over King and Queen County

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.

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

• Central Garage, VA13 miles
• West Point, VA14 miles
• Tappahannock, VA14 miles
• Warsaw, VA18 miles
• Highland Springs, VA27 miles
• Sandston, VA27 miles
• Mechanicsville, VA27 miles
• Kilmarnock, VA28 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.