Wisconsin air quality

Dodge County, Wisconsin Air Quality

Dodge County43.416, -88.707

The nearest monitor to Dodge County, at Horicon Wildlife Area, 6 miles away, measured an index of 26 at Thu, 2:00 AM CDT, which is Good for fine particles (PM2.5). Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources forecasts Good for Kettle Moraine North today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
26 · Good
Today
— · Good
Tomorrow
— · Good
Pollutant
PM2.5

Fine particles on the map

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

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Dodge County, Wisconsin 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 Dodge County right now. All Wisconsin warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Horicon Wildlife Area, 6 miles away (site 550270001)
Index measured
26 · Good
Measured at
Thu, 2:00 AM CDT
Fine particles
4.4 µg/m³
Ozone
21 ppb
Reporting area
Kettle Moraine North, WI, 12 miles away
Reported by
Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources
Area index
26 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources's own forecast for Kettle Moraine North, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGoodOzone
TomorrowGoodOzone
Saturday, September 26GoodOzone

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 55, Moderate, around Fri, 2:00 AM CDT, from the run issued Wed, 10:00 PM CDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Wed, 9:00 AM CDT33Good6
Wed, 10:00 AM CDT35Good6.7
Wed, 11:00 AM CDT34Good5.7
Wed, 12:00 PM CDT35Good7
Wed, 1:00 PM CDT34Good5.6
Wed, 2:00 PM CDT33Good5.7
Wed, 3:00 PM CDT33Good629
Wed, 4:00 PM CDT33Good6.131.2
Wed, 5:00 PM CDT32Good5.133
Wed, 6:00 PM CDT31Good5.334.1
Wed, 7:00 PM CDT31Good534.2
Wed, 8:00 PM CDT31Good3.433
Wed, 9:00 PM CDT29Good4.231.4
Wed, 10:00 PM CDT27Good4.329.7
Wed, 11:00 PM CDT26Good3.728.3
Thu, 12:00 AM CDT24Good4.126.5
Thu, 1:00 AM CDT26Good5.624.9
Thu, 2:00 AM CDT34Good7.523.6
Thu, 3:00 AM CDT40Good8.423
Thu, 4:00 AM CDT44Good8.723.6
Thu, 5:00 AM CDT45Good8.324.2
Thu, 6:00 AM CDT43Good7.524
Thu, 7:00 AM CDT38Good6.223.2
Thu, 8:00 AM CDT34Good5.522.6
Thu, 9:00 AM CDT34Good6.221.8
Thu, 10:00 AM CDT33Good5.921.7
Thu, 11:00 AM CDT30Good4.922.1
Thu, 12:00 PM CDT30Good5.422.6
Thu, 1:00 PM CDT32Good6.223.3
Thu, 2:00 PM CDT35Good7.125.2
Thu, 3:00 PM CDT39Good828
Thu, 4:00 PM CDT42Good8.331.1
Thu, 5:00 PM CDT43Good834.6
Thu, 6:00 PM CDT46Good8.937.1
Thu, 7:00 PM CDT46Good8.238.1
Thu, 8:00 PM CDT47Good938.3
Thu, 9:00 PM CDT51Moderate9.737.9
Thu, 10:00 PM CDT52Moderate10.536.9
Thu, 11:00 PM CDT53Moderate10.235.5
Fri, 12:00 AM CDT54Moderate11.433.2
Fri, 1:00 AM CDT54Moderate11.631.3
Fri, 2:00 AM CDT55Moderate12.129.5
Fri, 3:00 AM CDT55Moderate12.228.3
Fri, 4:00 AM CDT55Moderate10.727.1
Fri, 5:00 AM CDT54Moderate9.625.9
Fri, 6:00 AM CDT53Moderate9.325.4
Fri, 7:00 AM CDT53Moderate9.324.6
Fri, 8:00 AM CDT52Moderate9.323.7
Fri, 9:00 AM CDT52Moderate8.722.7
Fri, 10:00 AM CDT44Good6.722.7
Fri, 11:00 AM CDT41Good6.623.7
Fri, 12:00 PM CDT36Good5.825.4
Fri, 1:00 PM CDT38Good7.128
Fri, 2:00 PM CDT42Good8.330.1
Fri, 3:00 PM CDT42Good7.532.8
Fri, 4:00 PM CDT40Good6.835.9
Fri, 5:00 PM CDT37Good5.738.1
Fri, 6:00 PM CDT37Good6.939.1
Fri, 7:00 PM CDT38Good7.138.8
Fri, 8:00 PM CDT37Good6.338.2
Fri, 9:00 PM CDT33Good4.736.6
Fri, 10:00 PM CDT31Good534.7
Fri, 11:00 PM CDT30Good4.632.6
Sat, 12:00 AM CDT28Good4.630.5
Sat, 1:00 AM CDT26Good3.828.7
Sat, 2:00 AM CDT25Good4.127.2
Sat, 3:00 AM CDT27Good5.626
Sat, 4:00 AM CDT31Good6.624.7
Sat, 5:00 AM CDT37Good7.724.2
Sat, 6:00 AM CDT39Good7.724.2
Sat, 7:00 AM CDT38Good6.624

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 Dodge County 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 Dodge County

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.

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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.