{"id":6258,"date":"2024-07-17T08:12:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T12:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/blue-ridge\/?page_id=6258"},"modified":"2024-07-31T14:50:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T18:50:38","slug":"air-quality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/blue-ridge\/air-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Air Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>Monitoring &amp; Assessments<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) works with local, state and federal<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/196\/2024\/07\/shutterstock_2031466190-1.jpg\" width=\"296\" height=\"198\" \/> partners to monitor and evaluate air quality. DEQ maintains 36 monitoring sites located across the Commonwealth in order to measure a variety of pollutants, including ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and particulate pollution as well as other toxic pollutants.<\/p>\n<p>DEQ issues air quality forecasts using a variety of tools to estimate how pollution travels on the air. These include weather models, satellite images, air monitoring data and computer models.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Air Quality Index\u00a0(AQI) is a national index for reporting forecasted and daily air quality. It illustrates how clean or polluted the\u00a0air is and highlights associated health concerns. Focusing on health effects that can occur within hours or days after breathing polluted air, AQI is divided into several color-coded categories, which\u00a0correspond\u00a0to\u00a0different levels of health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>AQI information and forecasts can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deq.virginia.gov\/our-programs\/air\/monitoring-assessments\/air-quality-forecast\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">DEQ air quality data<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>page-Link:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.deq.virginia.gov\/our-programs\/air\/monitoring-assessments\/air-quality-forecastasts by region, as well as\u00a0\u00a0at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnow.gov\/state\/?name=virginia\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">AirNow.gov<\/span><\/span><\/a>. Link:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.airnow.gov\/state\/?name=virginia DEQ. Typically DEQ issues air quality forecasts daily and health alerts<em>\u00a0<\/em>when the estimated\u00a0AQI indicates unhealthy\u00a0conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/VADEQ\/subscriber\/new\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">Click to subscribe<\/span><\/span><\/a> to receive daily Air Quality Forecasts and Health Alerts in your DEQ Region by email.\u00a0 For a national map of alerts across the country, you can sign up on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.enviroflash.info\/\">Enviroflash<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 Link: https:\/\/www.enviroflash.info\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monitoring &amp; Assessments The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) works with local, state and federal partners to monitor and evaluate air quality. 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