{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://zipradar.org/topic/air-quality/87544/","name":"Air quality for ZIP 87544 — Los Alamos, NM","description":"Air quality data for ZIP 87544 (Los Alamos, New Mexico), 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":"87544","city":"Los Alamos","state":"NM","stateFull":"New Mexico","county":"Los Alamos County","countySlug":"los-alamos-county","geo":{"latitude":35.88,"longitude":-106.3031}},"stateContext":{"topConcern":"Radon, wildfire, water-supply scarcity","narrative":"New Mexico has Zone 1 radon coverage statewide. Wildfire risk in northern + central forests; the 2022 Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire was the largest in NM history. Water-supply scarcity drives compliance pressure on small rural EPA SDWIS systems."},"radonZone":null,"airQuality":{"year":2025,"medianAqi":13,"medianCategory":"Good","maxAqi":42,"p90Aqi":27,"daysWithAqi":82,"goodDays":82,"moderateDays":0,"usgDays":0,"unhealthyDays":0,"veryUnhealthyDays":0,"hazardousDays":0,"classification":"county-level ANNUAL summary — not a live current reading, not an address-level measurement","caveat":"This is a county-level ANNUAL SUMMARY for 2025, not a live current reading. For today's air quality, check a real-time monitor at airnow.gov. Categories follow EPA's official AQI breakpoints."},"waterQuality":null,"datePublished":"2026-04-24","dateModified":"2026-09-15","canonicalUrl":"https://zipradar.org/topic/air-quality/87544/","zipDashboardUrl":"https://zipradar.org/zip/87544/","zipDashboardApiUrl":"https://zipradar.org/api/zip/87544/","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/87544/"}}