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Windsor County, Vermont air quality history

Daily Air Quality Index summaries from EPA monitors in Windsor, Vermont, 1981.

92%
Good days in 1981
32
Median daily AQI, 1981
1
Days above 100 in 1981
167
Days with an AQI in 1981 (of 365)

In 1981, EPA reported a daily Air Quality Index (AQI) for Windsor, Vermont on 167 days. 154 of those days (92%) were in the Good range, and the median daily AQI was 32. That median is about the same as the typical monitored county in Vermont (median 32 across 3 counties), and lower than the typical monitored U.S. county (38). The main pollutant was ozone on 167 days.

EPA did not report an AQI for every day of 1981 here (167 of 365 days). Figures describe monitored days only; seasonal monitoring (for example, ozone measured only in warmer months) can make a county look cleaner or dirtier than a full-year record would.

The most recent year with data for this county is 1981; EPA's files for 1982–2025 contain no row for it, which usually means its monitors stopped reporting.

How the days broke down each year

Each bar is one year. The colored segments show the share of monitored days that fell in each AQI category.

Share of monitored days in each AQI category, by year0%25%50%75%100%1981: Good 154 of 167 days1981: Moderate 12 of 167 days1981: Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups 1 of 167 days1981
  • Good
  • Moderate
  • Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups
  • Unhealthy
  • Very Unhealthy
  • Hazardous

Typical and high-end AQI over time

The median is the middle day of the year. The 90th percentile is the level that only the highest 10% of days exceeded.

Median and 90th-percentile daily AQI, by year0501001981: 90th percentile AQI 491981: Median AQI 321981
  • Median daily AQI
  • 90th-percentile daily AQI

Main pollutant by day, 1981

On each monitored day, the AQI reflects whichever measured pollutant had the highest index. This counts how many days each pollutant set the AQI. A pollutant that was not measured here cannot appear.

PollutantDays as main pollutantShare of monitored days
Ozone167100%

Year-by-year data

Annual AQI summary by year
YearDays with AQIGoodModerateUnhealthy for Sensitive GroupsUnhealthyVery UnhealthyHazardousMedian AQI90th pct.Max AQIMain pollutant
19811671541210003249129Ozone

What this data can and can’t tell you

It is a county-level summary. EPA reports one AQI per day for the county, based on the monitors operating there. Air at a particular street, school or home can differ, especially near roads, industry or wildfire smoke.

It is not a health assessment. The AQI is EPA’s scale for communicating daily air quality. A county’s history can’t tell you what the health risk is for any particular person. For daily conditions and health guidance, see AirNow.

Rules change over time. EPA has revised AQI breakpoints, most recently for fine particles in 2024, so some year-to-year change can reflect the scale rather than the air.

All monitored counties in Vermont

Source: U.S. EPA AirData, “Annual AQI by County” files for 1981–1981 (EPA download page). EPA file dates: 2026-06-26. Imported into EnviroNearby November 5, 2026. How we use this data · Report a problem