Air Quality Forecasting

The Air District maintains a rolling six day forecast available on our Today's Air Quality web page. You can a link to this page at the top of the right side navigation menu.

The forecast page includes a map of eight forecast regions displaying today's forecasted Air Quality Index (AQI). The page also includes a six day forecast for the eight regions. A discussion of the forecast follows the table. At the bottom of the page are links to more information.

To view air quality data using AIRNow, enter the zip code for your location as listed in the table below.

Sign Up to Have the Daily Air Quality Conditions and Air Quality Forecast Emailed to You

Sign up to receive the daily air quality forecast via email by going to the EPA Enviroflash website and entering the zipcode for your nearest air monitoring station, as listed in the table below.

For your reference, all of the communities are linked to specific montioring stations that correspond to the forecast zone. To see the current air quality or the 6-day forecast for the monitoring station your community is associated with, click here.  If you live in South County and would like to further determine where your home is within the forecast zones, we have developed a map to help you do this, click here. 

The map below can be viewed full screen by clicking the brackets in the far right of the gray bar. The polygons are associated with the various monitoring stations and you can see descriptions of the included communities by clicking on each polygon. You can see the name of the monitoring stations by clicking the dark pink indicator dots.