Air quality in Glynn County, GA

Includes Brunswick and St. Simons · EPA monitor readings, 2021 to 2025 · 84,000 people

Clean most days
Bad-air days a year
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day with an AQI over 100

1 bad-air day in 5 years of readings, 2021 to 2025. That's down from about 5 a year in the early 2000s. Glynn County has the 4th fewest bad-air days of the 26 Georgia counties with monitors.

0days unhealthy for everyoneAQI over 150, a year
41AQI on a typical dayGood: fine for everyone
3bad-air days since 2016Too few to show a season
129worst day since 2016Nov 17, 2016, fine particles
How to read the AQIThe EPA's air score runs from 0 to 500. Higher is worse. Over 100 counts as a bad-air day.
Typical day 41 (Good)Worst day 129 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Good0 to 50Moderate51 to 100Sensitive groups101 to 150Unhealthy151 to 200Very unhealthy201 to 300Hazardous301 to 500

Bad-air days by month in Glynn County

Bad air is rare here: 3 bad-air days in 10 years of daily readings since 2016, too few to show a season. Each tile is the average for that month.

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0.1
Apr0
May0
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0.2
Dec0

The worst day since 2016 was November 17, 2016: AQI 129, from fine particles.

What causes it

The 3 bad-air days since 2016 were all fine-particle days, in November 2016 and March 2022.

CDC estimates by month, 2001 to 2022

The CDC's model counts bad-air days at the county's worst spot, from monitors and satellites. Particles (brown) fill the inside of the ring and ozone (blue) the outside.

JFMarch: 0.1 ozone days a yearMApril: 0.4 ozone days a yearAMay: 0.1 smoky days a yearMay: 0.5 ozone days a yearMJune: 0.3 ozone days a yearJJuly: 0.1 smoky days a yearJuly: 0.3 ozone days a yearJAugust: 0.0 ozone days a yearASeptember: 0.0 smoky days a yearSeptember: 0.0 ozone days a yearSOctober: 0.0 smoky days a yearONovember: 0.1 smoky days a yearNDbad daysby month
See the numbers by month
CDC estimated bad-air days a year in each month in Glynn County, 2001 to 2022
MonthFine particlesOzone
January00
February00
March00.1
April00.4
May0.10.5
June00.3
July0.10.3
August00
September00
October00
November0.10
December00

What helps in Glynn County

The air here is clean most days: 3 bad-air days in 10 years of daily readings. Wildfire smoke can still drift in from far away, so it's worth being ready.

Check tomorrow's forecast

AirNow posts an air quality forecast by ZIP code, usually the day before.

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Keep a cheap backup

A box fan with a MERV 13 filter clamped to it cleans a room in a pinch.

Build one →

Keep one room clean on smoky days

Shut the windows and run an air purifier sized for the room.

Choosing a purifier →

For today's reading and tomorrow's forecast, check AirNow by ZIP code. Its fire and smoke map adds smoke plumes.

Smoky days are rare here, so a purifier is optional. If you want one for wildfire season anyway, see the 3 models we'd buy, each with a verified smoke rating.

Every year since 2000

Bad-air days each year. The striped part is days unhealthy for everyone, over AQI 150. The worst recent year was 2022, with 1 bad-air day.

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Unhealthy for sensitive groups (101 to 150)Unhealthy or worse (over 150)
See the numbers by year
Bad-air days each year in Glynn County
YearBad-air daysOver 150
200060
200151
200260
200320
200450
200510
200610
200720
200820
200920
201000
201110
201200
201300
201400
201500
201620
201700
201800
201900
202000
202100
202210
202300
202400
202500

Glynn County and its neighbors

Bad-air days a year, 2021 to 2025. Georgia counties with monitors averaged about 2 bad-air days a year, weighted by population.

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Nearest counties with a full report: Duval County, FL (1 bad-air day a year), Chatham County, GA (under 1 bad-air day a year), Baker County, FL (under 1 bad-air days a year).

Questions people ask about air in Glynn County

How often is the air bad in Glynn County?

From 2021 to 2025, monitors in Glynn County recorded almost no bad-air days a year with an AQI above 100, which is unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse. The worst year in that stretch was 2022, with 1 bad-air day.

What causes bad air in Glynn County?

The 3 bad-air days since 2016 were all fine-particle days, in November 2016 and March 2022.

Where can I see today's air quality in Glynn County?

AirNow, run by the EPA and its partners, shows the current AQI and tomorrow's forecast for your ZIP code. Its fire and smoke map adds smoke plumes. On a typical day the AQI in Glynn County is about 41, which is good, fine for everyone. Bad days are rare here, so check it when wildfire smoke is in the news.

About these numbers

Day counts come from the EPA's county air quality summaries, which take the worst reading across a county's monitors each day. Monitors here reported on about 350 days a year from 2021 to 2025. A county is large, and your street can be cleaner or worse. CDC's model, which estimates every county from monitors and satellites, gives the worst spot in Glynn County almost no high-particle days and almost no high-ozone days a year from 2018 to 2022.

Sources: EPA AirData county AQI summaries (2000 to 2025) and daily county AQI (2016 to 2025); CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network modeled PM2.5 and ozone (2001 to 2022). Updated November 8, 2026.