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Most polluted cities in Kentucky, United States, March 2024
15 cities in Kentucky, United States ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Middlesboro at 8.4 µg/m³, #667 of 1,643 cities in the world. Cleanest: Lexington-Fayette at 5.4. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
OpenAQ's archive, where our readings come from, has almost none from the United States for March 20, 2024: cities in the United States have it from the EPA's own records of the same monitors. Why.
Ranked by unhealthy days: the share of each city's measured days with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+), Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or worse on the US EPA's scale. Ties go to the higher average.
- 1Hazard 3%
- 2Middlesboro 0%
- 3Paducah 0%
- 3Louisville 0%
- 3Valley Station 0%
- 6Somerset 0%
- 7Oak Grove 0%
- 8Jeffersontown 0%
- 9Elizabethtown 0%
- 9Flatwoods 0%
- 11Saint Matthews 0%
- 12Ashland 0%
- 12Pikeville 0%
- 14Highland Heights 0%
- 15Lexington-Fayette 0%
The US EPA's Air Quality Index for PM2.5 (2024 breakpoints). Show values as: µg/m³ · US AQI · India AQI · China AQI · European AQI · UK DAQI · Canada AQHI+. About the scales
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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Kentucky, United States, PM2.5, March 2024, smogrank.com/us/region/kentucky/history/2024-03 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).
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