SmogRank / United States / Oregon / Talent
Talent, month by month
Talent has a measured daily mean on 1,279 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was August 2023, at 121 US AQI (43.6 µg/m³), 22nd of 1,980 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was June 2026, at 14 US AQI (2.5 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 29 US AQI (5.2 µg/m³), against 30 US AQI (5.4 µg/m³) in 2024.
Every month since 2023
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
Months without a mean, and why
3 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 6 of 11 days measured; a month needs 8. The others: 2 with no readings from the monitor, 3 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Mar 2023 | 11 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 20 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
| Feb 2023 | 1 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 25 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 2 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Talent's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | 12143.6 µg/m³ | 22ndof 1,980 | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| August 2024 | 5712.2 µg/m³ | 316thof 2,010 | Oregon, Idaho and Utah, United States, August 2024 North-western United States and Canada, August 2024 |
| July 2024 | 5410.9 µg/m³ | 576thof 2,566 | North-western United States and Canada, July 2024 |
| September 2023 | 5410.8 µg/m³ | 451stof 2,176 | Oregon and California, United States, September 2023 |
| September 2025 | 5410.8 µg/m³ | 586thof 3,104 | North-western United States and Canada, August and September 2025 |
| July 2026 | 498.9 µg/m³ | 1,635thof 2,784 | North-western United States and Canada, July and August 2026 |
Monthly means over the days measured; finished months only. World rank: its place on that month's world ranking of every city with enough days. Each month opens that ranking.
Talent's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2023 | 224149.0 µg/m³ | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| 25 Aug 2023 | 216141.0 µg/m³ | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| 22 Aug 2023 | 209134.0 µg/m³ | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| 27 Aug 2023 | 204129.0 µg/m³ | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| 17 Aug 2023 | 201126.0 µg/m³ | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| 18 Aug 2023 | 16880.1 µg/m³ | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| 24 Aug 2023 | 16575.2 µg/m³ | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| 26 Aug 2023 | 16372.0 µg/m³ | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| 23 Sept 2023 | 16170.1 µg/m³ | Oregon and California, United States, September 2023 |
| 17 Jul 2026 | 15966.9 µg/m³ | North-western United States and Canada, July and August 2026 |
Daily means, the highest since 1 Jan 2023; the WHO's daily guideline is 15 µg/m³. Each date opens that day's world ranking, and each episode the bad-air spell it was part of.
Use this history
SmogRank, PM2.5 monthly and daily means, Talent, United States, 1 Jan 2023 – 11 Oct 2026. Monitor data from AirNow, via OpenAQ and from the publisher directly; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/us/talent/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Talent now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 18:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some low-cost readings: Sensor.Community, ODbL (data and licence). Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); RMCAB (Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Bogotá); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).