Air quality in United States

Air quality in Nevada today

Updated Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:41:43 GMT

Good: average US AQI 46 across 12 cities in Nevada Worst now: Las Vegas (49); cleanest: Elko (37).

Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across Nevada, compared with the United States average.

Right now the modelled air quality in Nevada averages a US AQI of 46 (Good) across the 12 cities we track. By category: 12 Good (of 12).

That is 6 points cleaner than the United States average of 52, ranking 24 of 51 states from cleanest to most polluted.

Las Vegas has the worst air at 49 (PM2.5 6.9 µg/m³), and Elko the cleanest at 37. No tracked city is above 100, so no group needs to change plans.

Nevada cities by AQI (most polluted first)

City	US AQI	Category	PM2.5 µg/m³	PM10 µg/m³	Ozone µg/m³
Las Vegas	49	Good	6.9	9	98
North Las Vegas	49	Good	6.9	9	98
Paradise	49	Good	6.9	9	98
Sunrise Manor	49	Good	6.9	9	98
Spring Valley	49	Good	6.9	9	98
Enterprise	49	Good	6.9	9	98
Winchester	49	Good	6.9	9	98
Reno	43	Good	2.6	3	98
Sparks	43	Good	2.6	3	98
Henderson	42	Good	5.3	8	93
Carson City	38	Good	2.5	3	97
Elko	37	Good	3.3	4	87

US AQI	Category	What it means
0-50	Good	Air quality is satisfactory and poses little or no risk; a good time for outdoor activity.
51-100	Moderate	Acceptable for most people. Unusually sensitive people should consider shortening long or heavy exertion outdoors.
101-150	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	People with heart or lung disease, older adults, children and teens should cut back on prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors.
151-200	Unhealthy	Everyone should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors; sensitive groups should avoid it and keep windows closed.
201-300	Very Unhealthy	Health alert: everyone should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors, and sensitive groups should stay indoors.
301-500	Hazardous	Emergency conditions: everyone should avoid all outdoor physical activity and stay indoors with filtered air if possible. The scale tops out at 500; heavier dust or smoke is shown as 500.

Modelled by CAMS (Copernicus) via Open-Meteo, refreshed twice a day; read hour by hour from the forecast.