{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://zipradar.org/topic/air-quality/23219/","name":"Air quality for ZIP 23219 — Richmond, VA","description":"Air quality data for ZIP 23219 (Richmond, Virginia), sourced from EPA Air Quality System (AQS), annual county summary.","topic":{"slug":"air-quality","label":"Air quality","source":"EPA Air Quality System (AQS), annual county summary","sourceUrl":"https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html","refreshCadence":"Annual (EPA AQS publication)","summary":"Pages show the 2025 median AQI category (Good, Moderate, Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups, Unhealthy, Very Unhealthy, Hazardous) for the ZIP's county, plus the year's max/90th-percentile AQI and day-count breakdown by category.","limitations":"This is a county-level ANNUAL SUMMARY, not a live current reading and not an address-level measurement — for today's AQI, EPA's real-time AirNow feed is the correct source (not yet federated here). Not every county operates an EPA monitor; absence of data for a ZIP's county means no 2025 EPA reading exists, not that air is good."},"place":{"zip":"23219","city":"Richmond","state":"VA","stateFull":"Virginia","county":"Richmond (city)","countySlug":"richmond","geo":{"latitude":37.5407,"longitude":-77.436}},"stateContext":{"topConcern":"Coastal flood (Hampton Roads), inland AE","narrative":"Virginia's Hampton Roads region (Norfolk, VA Beach, Newport News) carries dense FEMA VE/AE zones with rapid sea-level rise. Inland AE coverage along the James, Rappahannock, Potomac. Radon Zone 1-2 across most counties."},"radonZone":null,"airQuality":null,"waterQuality":null,"datePublished":"2026-04-24","dateModified":"2026-09-15","canonicalUrl":"https://zipradar.org/topic/air-quality/23219/","zipDashboardUrl":"https://zipradar.org/zip/23219/","zipDashboardApiUrl":"https://zipradar.org/api/zip/23219/","primarySourceUrl":"https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html","license":{"content":"CC-BY-4.0","attribution":"zipradar.org — https://zipradar.org/topic/air-quality/23219/"}}