Aberdeen, WA Air Quality

EPA monitor data through 2025 · Updated September 02, 2026 · Methods

In 2025, Aberdeen, WA recorded 0 days above an Air Quality Index of 100, the level at which EPA begins warning sensitive groups, out of 365 days with monitoring data. The rest of the year was 355 Good days and 10 Moderate days. Under the AQI rules that applied before 2013, the same air would have scored 0 days.

Unhealthy days, 2025
0
AQI above 100
Same air, pre-2013 rules
0
for comparison with older reports
Good-air days
355
AQI 50 or below
Days monitored
365
full year

Unhealthy days by year, scored two ways

EPA changed what an AQI of 100 means in 2013 and again in 2015, so a count published before those changes is not comparable to one published after. Each panel below applies a single fixed rulebook to every year, so each is internally consistent. Why this matters.

Scored by today's rules

Aberdeen, WA: days above AQI 100 by year, current rules 0 2 4 6 8 2002 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2002: 0 days (incomplete monitoring) 2003: 0 days 2004: 0 days 2005: 0 days 2006: 0 days 2007: 0 days 2008: 0 days 2009: 0 days 2010: 0 days 2011: 0 days 2012: 0 days 2013: 0 days 2014: 0 days 2015: 0 days 2016: 0 days 2017: 3 days 2018: 4 days 2019: 0 days 2020: 8 days 2021: 0 days 2022: 1 days 2023: 0 days 2024: 0 days 2025: 0 days

Scored by the pre-2013 rules

Aberdeen, WA: days above AQI 100 by year, pre-2013 rules 0 2 4 6 8 2002 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2002: 0 days (incomplete monitoring) 2003: 0 days 2004: 0 days 2005: 0 days 2006: 0 days 2007: 0 days 2008: 0 days 2009: 0 days 2010: 0 days 2011: 0 days 2012: 0 days 2013: 0 days 2014: 0 days 2015: 0 days 2016: 0 days 2017: 1 days 2018: 3 days 2019: 0 days 2020: 8 days 2021: 0 days 2022: 0 days 2023: 0 days 2024: 0 days 2025: 0 days
Faded columns mark years with fewer than 300 monitored days, where the count is not comparable.

What 2025 looked like

Air quality categoryDaysShare of days with an AQI
Good35597%
Moderate103%
Unhealthy for sensitive groups00%
Unhealthy or worse00%

Median AQI 22 · 90th-percentile AQI 41 · worst day 76. Scored under current rules, out of 365 days with an AQI.

Statewide context

Aberdeen, WA sits in Washington.

Days in each air quality category, by year

How many days fell in each AQI category, for every year with an AQI on record. Categories are scored under EPA's current breakpoints. A year with fewer than 300 days is marked, because a short year lowers every count for reasons that have nothing to do with the air.

YearGoodModerate Unhealthy for sensitive groupsUnhealthy or worse Days with an AQI
2002 (partial) 79520 0131
2003 2631020 0365
2004 268980 0366
2005 320450 0365
2006 318470 0365
2007 271910 0362
2008 2661000 0366
2009 275900 0365
2010 355100 0365
2011 331320 0363
2012 319470 0366
2013 276890 0365
2014 319460 0365
2015 303400 0343
2016 330340 0364
2017 313492 1365
2018 324371 3365
2019 327250 0352
2020 330281 7366
2021 347180 0365
2022 340241 0365
2023 339260 0365
2024 353130 0366
2025 355100 0365

Good is AQI 0–50, Moderate 51–100, Unhealthy for sensitive groups 101–150. “Unhealthy or worse” combines the Unhealthy, Very Unhealthy and Hazardous categories, which are shown together because most areas record too few of each to report separately. The four columns sum to the last one by construction. These counts exclude sulphur dioxide, following EPA, which drops SO₂ from county and metro summaries because it is too localized to describe a whole area.

The full series

The same years scored two ways, with the pollutant that drove the days above 100. EPA's files record which pollutant set each day's AQI; they do not attribute days to wildfire smoke, so no column here claims to.

YearUnhealthy days, current rulesOf which ozone Of which fine particlesPre-2013 rulesDays monitored
20020 0 0 0131
20030 0 0 0365
20040 0 0 0366
20050 0 0 0365
20060 0 0 0365
20070 0 0 0362
20080 0 0 0366
20090 0 0 0365
20100 0 0 0365
20110 0 0 0363
20120 0 0 0366
20130 0 0 0365
20140 0 0 0365
20150 0 0 0343
20160 0 0 0364
20173 0 3 1365
20184 0 4 3365
20190 0 0 0352
20208 0 8 8366
20210 0 0 0365
20221 0 1 0365
20230 0 0 0365
20240 0 0 0366
20250 0 0 0365

Sources