Counties in Alabama by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI)

Calhoun County had the highest share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI) of 26 counties in 1996, at 100%. Lawrence County had the lowest, at 57.2%. The median was 96.2%. Source: EPA.

Highest100Calhoun County

Lowest57.2Lawrence County

Median96.226 counties

All counties, 1996

%. Source: Invokely calculation with data from EPA. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Counties	1996 (%)	Change on 1995
1	Calhoun County	100	+5.1 pts
1	Colbert County	100	+21.8 pts
1	Escambia County	100	+1.6 pts
1	Franklin County	100	+1.7 pts
1	Jackson County	100	+1.7 pts
1	Limestone County	100	n/a
1	Pike County	100	+1.8 pts
8	Etowah County	98.3	+1.6 pts
8	Marengo County	98.3	-1.7 pts
8	Talladega County	98.3	+4.9 pts
11	Russell County	98.2	-0.1 pts
12	Walker County	98.1	-0.1 pts
13	Houston County	98	+3.6 pts
14	Tuscaloosa County	94.4	-0.7 pts
15	Montgomery County	92.1	+8.1 pts
16	Sumter County	87.4	+5.3 pts
17	Geneva County	83.6	-1.6 pts
18	Mobile County	76.7	-2.2 pts
19	Elmore County	69.5	-14.2 pts
20	Jefferson County	67.2	+7.2 pts
21	Shelby County	66	-5.2 pts
22	DeKalb County	65.3	+12 pts
23	Clay County	64.9	-3.3 pts
24	Madison County	61.7	-3.8 pts
24	Morgan County	61.7	-36.6 pts
26	Lawrence County	57.2	-5.9 pts

Other periods

About this ranking

Days with a daily Air Quality Index of 0 to 50 (good) as a percentage of the days of the year with an AQI in a US county. Calculated by Invokely from the day counts in the EPA AirData annual summaries; both counts are stored with each value.

United States counties with air quality monitors only, about 1,000 of some 3,100 in recent years; a county without monitors has no value. The number of days with an AQI differs between counties because some monitors run only in the ozone season.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. 5 counties with data in other periods have no value for 1996 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System, AirData. EPA AirData annual AQI by county: good days as a share of days with an AQI, calculated with stored counts. https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2026). EPA AirData annual AQI by county: good days as a share of days with an AQI, calculated with stored counts (Counties in Alabama by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI), 1996) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual

MLA 9

EPA AirData annual AQI by county: good days as a share of days with an AQI, calculated with stored counts, Counties in Alabama by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI), 1996. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 13 July 2026, https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/good-air-quality-days-share/alabama-counties?period=1996. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2026. EPA AirData annual AQI by county: good days as a share of days with an AQI, calculated with stored counts. Counties in Alabama by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI), 1996. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/good-air-quality-days-share/alabama-counties?period=1996.

Harvard

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2026) EPA AirData annual AQI by county: good days as a share of days with an AQI, calculated with stored counts, Counties in Alabama by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI), 1996 [Dataset]. Available at: https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/good-air-quality-days-share/alabama-counties?period=1996 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/good-air-quality-days-share/alabama-counties?period=1996. Publisher attribution: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System, AirData. EPA AirData annual AQI by county: good days as a share of days with an AQI, calculated with stored counts. https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download\_files.html\#Annual. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
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Which county has the highest share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI)?

Calhoun County, with 100% in 1996, according to EPA.

Which county has the lowest share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI)?

Lawrence County, with 57.2% in 1996.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA AirData annual AQI by county: good days as a share of days with an AQI, calculated with stored counts. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 5 counties have no value for 1996 and are not ranked.