# Counties in South Dakota by share of days with good air quality (US EPA AQI), 2025

All 10 values come from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2025, so the places are comparable. 4 counties have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `aqi_good_days_share`
- Unit: %
- Definition: 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.
- Source: 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 (https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/good-air-quality-days-share/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
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| 1 | Meade County | 97.4 |
| 2 | Hughes County | 93 |
| 3 | Clay County | 87.7 |
| 4 | Brown County | 83.6 |
| 5 | Minnehaha County | 80.8 |
| 6 | Jackson County | 78.6 |
| 7 | Codington County | 78 |
| 8 | Pennington County | 77.5 |
| 9 | Custer County | 73.6 |
| 10 | Brookings County | 58.6 |