{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://zipradar.org/topic/air-quality/78610/","name":"Air quality for ZIP 78610 — Buda (TX), TX","description":"Air quality data for ZIP 78610 (Buda (TX), Texas), 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":"78610","city":"Buda (TX)","state":"TX","stateFull":"Texas","county":"Hays County","countySlug":"hays-county","geo":{"latitude":30.0844,"longitude":-97.8408}},"stateContext":{"topConcern":"Hurricanes (Gulf coast), flooding, drought","narrative":"Texas Gulf coast has the largest FEMA VE/AE coverage of any state. Inland flooding (Hurricane Harvey 2017) triggered FIRM panel revisions for Houston metro. Drought + induced seismicity affect EPA SDWIS compliance in West Texas. Tornado risk in the Panhandle."},"radonZone":null,"airQuality":null,"waterQuality":null,"datePublished":"2026-04-24","dateModified":"2026-09-24","canonicalUrl":"https://zipradar.org/topic/air-quality/78610/","zipDashboardUrl":"https://zipradar.org/zip/78610/","zipDashboardApiUrl":"https://zipradar.org/api/zip/78610/","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/78610/"}}