Air Quality Monitoring

The Basics

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

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) along with local governmental agencies own and operate the monitors which make up Florida's ambient air monitoring network. The network is operated by the six FDEP Districts (Northwest, Northeast, Central, Southeast, South, and Southwest), one FDEP agency (the Bureau of Air Monitoring located in Tallahassee), and ten local governmental agencies (Broward, Collier, City of Jacksonville, Hillsborough, Manatee, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach, Pinellas, and Sarasota). Select the image to the right to view a larger version of the 2012 Open Monitoring Site map.

• Textual Reentrance Spreadsheet [Excel - 28kb]
  This excel spreadsheet provides a textual representation of the Open Monitoring Site map.
• Higher Resolution Version of Open Site Monitoring Map [JPG - 7MB]
  This image is at a higher resolution than the linked map image to the right.

What are the measured levels of air pollutants in Florida?

Florida?s air quality is driven by ozone (O₃) and fine particles (particle pollution 2.5 or particulate matter 2.5 or PM_2.5). To a lesser extent it is also affected by carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), particle pollution 10 (particulate matter 10 or PM₁₀), and sulfur dioxide (SO₂). The levels for these pollutants can be seen on the:

• Spatial Air Quality System

What is the air quality where I live?

This website contains many tools for reviewing air quality across the state of Florida. Access to these tools and the hourly data in tabular form for CO, NO₂, O₃, continuously monitored PM_2.5 and PM₁₀, and SO₂ with summary information can be found at:

• Florida's Air Quality System

Where can I find particle pollution data on which regulatory decisions are made?

Continuously monitoring PM2.5 samplers report data to this website, but are not used for regulatory decisions. PM_2.5 data for the regulatory network is collected on manually run samplers with filters that are exposed for 24 hours. PM₁₀ data collected by both continuous and manual (filter-based) samplers are used for regulatory data. This website displays the continuously collected PM₁₀ data only. The manually collected PM_2.5 and PM₁₀ data are not available in a timely fashion, but the summary statistics are updated quarterly and posted by year at:

• Quick Look Reports
• Annual Monitoring Reports

What is the Air Quality Index

The Air Quality Index is a value that simplifies the CO, NO₂, O₃, particle pollution (PM₁₀ and PM_2.5), and SO₂ concentrations and indicates the air quality in a certain location. More information may be found at:

• How does AQI work?
• What are the current and historical AQI values where I live?