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Map air quality in your city

Understanding when and where air pollution’s impacts are felt within your city, as well as which pollutants contribute most to poor air quality, allows you to better target interventions and maximize their impact.

Air quality data is available from several sources, including regulatory monitors, low-cost air sensors, satellite retrievals and models. This section offers guidance and resources to help your city tap into locally-relevant air quality information that makes it easier to understand how air quality has changed over time and what it may look like in the future.

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Guidance Tool

EPA for State and Local Governments

This resource, managed by the EPA Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations (OCIR), serves as the primary gateway for state, local, and tribal officials to navigate...
Database Guidance Tool

Data.gov

Data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
Database Map

GeoPlatform.gov

Aggregates emission and air quality data from agencies like the EPA, NOAA, and NASA.
Database Guidance Policy Strategy examples

Smoke Management Program

A smoke management program approved by EPA for prescribed burns. Describes elements of smoke management program
Washington DC air pollution heatmap
Nitrogen dioxide pollution contributes to approximately 3,500 new childhood asthma cases every year in the Washington D.C. metro region.
New York City air pollution heatmap
Nitrogen dioxide pollution contributes to approximately 21,000 new childhood asthma cases every year in the New York metro region.
Philadelphia air pollution heatmap
Nitrogen dioxide pollution contributes to approximately 4,000 new childhood asthma cases every year in the Philadelphia metro region.
Chicago air pollution heatmap
Nitrogen dioxide pollution contributes to more than 10,000 new childhood asthma cases every year in the Chicago metro region.
Boston air pollution heatmap
Nitrogen dioxide pollution contributes to approximately 2,700 new childhood asthma cases every year in the Boston metro region.
Austin air pollution heatmap
Nitrogen dioxide pollution contributes to more than 1,800 new childhood asthma cases every year in the Austin metro region.
Baltimore air pollution heatmap
Nitrogen dioxide pollution contributes to more than 1,300 new childhood asthma cases every year in Baltimore metro region.

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