# Counties in Alaska by highest daily Air Quality Index (US EPA), 2020

All 9 values come from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2020, so the places are comparable. 4 counties have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `aqi_max`
- Unit: index
- Definition: Highest daily Air Quality Index (AQI) value recorded in a US county during the year, from the EPA AirData annual summaries. Values above 500 are beyond the AQI scale and are published as EPA computes them.
- Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA AirData annual AQI by county: highest daily AQI (https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/environmental-protection-agency
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System, AirData. EPA AirData annual AQI by county: highest daily AQI. https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/highest-daily-air-quality-index/alaska-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 177 |
| 2 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 103 |
| 3 | Juneau City and Borough | 101 |
| 4 | Anchorage Municipality | 92 |
| 5 | Bethel Census Area | 56 |
| 6 | Denali Borough | 54 |
| 6 | North Slope Borough | 54 |
| 8 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 53 |
| 9 | Aleutians East Borough | 41 |