Warren, PA Air Quality

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

In 2025, Warren, PA recorded 3 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 120 Good days and 29 Moderate days. Most of the bad days were driven by fine particles. Under the AQI rules that applied before 2013, the same air would have scored 1 days.

Unhealthy days, 2025
3
AQI above 100
Same air, pre-2013 rules
1
for comparison with older reports
Good-air days
120
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

Warren, PA: days above AQI 100 by year, current rules 0 1 2 3 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2000: 0 days 2001: 0 days 2002: 0 days 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: 0 days 2018: 0 days 2019: 0 days 2020: 0 days 2021: 0 days 2022: 0 days 2023: 0 days 2024: 0 days 2025: 3 days

Scored by the pre-2013 rules

Warren, PA: days above AQI 100 by year, pre-2013 rules 0 1 2 3 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2000: 0 days 2001: 0 days 2002: 0 days 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: 0 days 2018: 0 days 2019: 0 days 2020: 0 days 2021: 0 days 2022: 0 days 2023: 0 days 2024: 0 days 2025: 1 days

What 2025 looked like

Air quality categoryDaysShare of days with an AQI
Good12079%
Moderate2919%
Unhealthy for sensitive groups32%
Unhealthy or worse00%

Median AQI 35 · 90th-percentile AQI 58 · worst day 138. Scored under current rules, out of 152 days with an AQI.

What drove the unhealthy days

Of the 3 days above 100 in 2025, 0 were driven by ozone and 3 by fine particles. The two behave differently. Ozone peaks on hot sunny afternoons; fine particles now spike mainly with wildfire smoke.

The unhealthy days in 2025

Every day the index passed 100, what it reached, and which pollutant drove it. 2 of these 3 would not have counted as unhealthy under the pre-2013 rules.

DatePeak AQIDriven byPre-2013 score
Aug 4138Fine particles 121
Aug 5105Fine particles 94 (not unhealthy)
Aug 7103Fine particles 92 (not unhealthy)

Statewide context

Warren, PA sits in Pennsylvania.

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
2025 (partial) 120293 0152

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. 25 years with monitoring but no AQI are omitted. 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
20000 0366
20010 0365
20020 0365
20030 0365
20040 0366
20050 0365
20060 0365
20070 0365
20080 0366
20090 0340
20100 0349
20110 0341
20120 0321
20130 0365
20140 0365
20150 0363
20160 0366
20170 0365
20180 0365
20190 0365
20200 0365
20210 0353
20220 0365
20230 0359
20240 0366
20253 0 3 1365

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