Air quality in Indiana
EPA monitors report from 33 of Indiana’s 92 counties. That is the honest limit of this page: the other 59 are not measured, not clean. In 2025 the most affected monitored county was Lake County, with 15 days above the moderate category.
33
Counties with monitors
59
Counties without
89
Days above moderate, 2025
Summed across monitored counties
11.2%
Adults with asthma
Population-weighted county estimate
County by county
Monitored Indiana counties
GoodModerateUnhealthy for sensitive groupsUnhealthyVery unhealthyHazardous
| County | 90th %ile AQI | Above moderate | Max AQI | 2025 days by category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake County | 75 | 15 | 219 | |
| LaPorte County | 72 | 12 | 153 | |
| Porter County | 71 | 11 | 136 | |
| St. Joseph County | 71 | 7 | 127 | |
| Elkhart County | 66 | 6 | 171 | |
| Floyd County | 61 | 5 | 126 | |
| Hamilton County | 62 | 5 | 118 | |
| Marion County | 71 | 5 | 170 | |
| Allen County | 69 | 3 | 115 | |
| Boone County | 51 | 3 | 112 | |
| Clark County | 61 | 3 | 133 | |
| Howard County | 61 | 3 | 122 | |
| Delaware County | 63 | 2 | 108 | |
| Madison County | 61 | 2 | 122 | |
| Whitley County | 61 | 2 | 108 | |
| Carroll County | 49 | 1 | 105 | |
| Posey County | 50 | 1 | 105 | |
| Shelby County | 49 | 1 | 105 | |
| Vigo County | 65 | 1 | 108 | |
| Wabash County | 49 | 1 | 112 | |
| Bartholomew County | 59 | 0 | 97 | |
| Brown County | 46 | 0 | 77 | |
| Dubois County | 58 | 0 | 88 | |
| Greene County | 59 | 0 | 90 | |
| Hendricks County | 49 | 0 | 90 | |
| Henry County | 59 | 0 | 95 | |
| Knox County | 49 | 0 | 93 | |
| Monroe County | 58 | 0 | 84 | |
| Perry County | 49 | 0 | 84 | |
| Spencer County | 59 | 0 | 88 | |
| Tippecanoe County | 58 | 0 | 95 | |
| Vanderburgh County | 63 | 0 | 100 | |
| Warrick County | 54 | 0 | 97 |
EPA Air Quality System annual summaries by county, 2025. The 90th percentile AQI describes a day worse than nine out of ten, which is a steadier measure than the annual maximum a single wildfire can set.
Not measured
59 counties without a monitor
No EPA monitor reported from these counties, so there is no air quality record to publish. Their radon zone is known, and radon is measured in the building rather than the air outside it.
- Adams County
- Benton County
- Blackford County
- Cass County
- Clay County
- Clinton County
- Crawford County
- Daviess County
- Dearborn County
- Decatur County
- DeKalb County
- Fayette County
- Fountain County
- Franklin County
- Fulton County
- Gibson County
- Grant County
- Hancock County
- Harrison County
- Huntington County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jay County
- Jefferson County
- Jennings County
- Johnson County
- Kosciusko County
- LaGrange County
- Lawrence County
- Marshall County
- Martin County
- Miami County
- Montgomery County
- Morgan County
- Newton County
- Noble County
- Ohio County
- Orange County
- Owen County
- Parke County
- Pike County
- Pulaski County
- Putnam County
- Randolph County
- Ripley County
- Rush County
- Scott County
- Starke County
- Steuben County
- Sullivan County
- Switzerland County
- Tipton County
- Union County
- Vermillion County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
- Wells County
- White County
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