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Office of Air Monitoring

Air Quality Index (AQI)

What is the Air Quality Index?

The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a tool for reporting daily air quality. It tells you how clean or polluted your air is and what associated health effects might be a concern for you. The AQI focuses on health effects you may experience within a few hours or days after breathing polluted air. It takes all the monitored pollutants and relates them to a single-scale value to indicate air quality. See the AQI guide below for details.

Air Monitoring FAQ

What agencies and monitors make up Florida's ambient air monitoring network?

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) along with local governmental agencies own and operate the monitors that make up Florida's ambient air monitoring network. The network is operated by DEP’s Division of Air Resource Management staff in Tallahassee, DEP's six district offices, and nine local governmental agencies (Broward, Hillsborough, Manatee, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach, Pinellas and Sarasota counties and the city of Jacksonville). 

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