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

Billings County had the highest share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI) of 12 counties in 1986, at 100%. Mercer County had the lowest, at 92.9%. The median was 98.2%. Source: EPA.

Highest100Billings County

Lowest92.9Mercer County

Median98.212 counties

Map of counties, 1986

Under 96
96 to 98
98 to 100
100 and over
No data

%, 1986. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: Invokely calculation with data from EPA. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All counties, 1986

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

Full ranking

Rank	Counties	1986 (%)	Change on 1985
1	Billings County	100	n/a
1	Stutsman County	100	0 pts
1	Ward County	100	n/a
4	McKenzie County	98.5	-0.9 pts
5	Cass County	98.3	-1.7 pts
5	Williams County	98.3	+1.5 pts
7	Dunn County	98.1	-0.3 pts
8	Grand Forks County	97.1	-2.9 pts
9	Burleigh County	96.5	+0.9 pts
10	Oliver County	95.6	-1.7 pts
11	Stark County	94.4	-3.3 pts
12	Mercer County	92.9	-4.4 pts

Other periods

2001
2000
1998
1987
1986

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. 3 counties with data in other periods have no value for 1986 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 North Dakota by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI), 1986) [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 North Dakota by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI), 1986. 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/north-dakota-counties?period=1986. 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 North Dakota by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI), 1986. 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/north-dakota-counties?period=1986.

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 North Dakota by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI), 1986 [Dataset]. Available at: https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/good-air-quality-days-share/north-dakota-counties?period=1986 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  author = {{U.S. Environmental Protection Agency}},
  title = {{EPA AirData annual AQI by county: good days as a share of days with an AQI, calculated with stored counts: Counties in North Dakota by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI), 1986}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/good-air-quality-days-share/north-dakota-counties?period=1986. 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.},
}

RIS

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

Billings County, with 100% in 1986, according to EPA.

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

Mercer County, with 92.9% in 1986.

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. 3 counties have no value for 1986 and are not ranked.