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Most polluted cities in North Carolina, United States, November 2025

17 cities in North Carolina, United States ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 30 days. Worst: Wake Forest at 13.0 µg/m³, #682 of 2,662 cities in the world. Cleanest: Roanoke Rapids at 6.5. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

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.

← Wake Forest 3% 3%0
Every city in North Carolina, United States ranked for November 2025, one column each, ranked by unhealthy days: height is the share of its measured days that were unhealthy, colour its average. Point at it to read a city; tap to open it.
  1. 1Wake Forestlow-cost sensors
    3%
  2. 2Lexington
    0%
  3. 3Charlotte
    0%
  4. 4Durham
    0%
  5. 4Fayetteville
    0%
  6. 6Winston-Salem
    0%
  7. 7Clayton
    0%
  8. 8Clemmons
    0%
  9. 8Raleigh
    0%
  10. 10Hickory
    0%
  11. 10Morrisville
    0%
  12. 12Greensboro
    0%
  13. 13Greenville
    0%
  14. 14Marvin
    0%
  15. 14Tarboro
    0%
  16. 16Asheville
    0%
  17. 16Roanoke Rapids
    0%

Low-cost sensors: consumer units, counted only in cities with no government-grade monitor; they read close to reference monitors on the whole, but 15 to 25% high in humid air. How we use them.

Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+

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 North Carolina, United States, PM2.5, November 2025, smogrank.com/us/region/north-carolina/history/2025-11 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).

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