Air quality in Burke County, North Dakota, United States of America today
Mr. Duck’s Air Quality Score
Good air today for Burke County, North Dakota, United States of America
This friendly indicator summarizes the latest city readings. For health guidance, please see: EPA AirNow or WHO.
Air quality today
The air quality in Burke County, North Dakota is rated as Good today. The primary pollutant identified is PM2.5 (fine particles), with a measured reference value of 1.0 µg/m³ based on six valid observations reported through OpenAQ.
Overall conditions meet the criteria for a Good category, reflecting low concentrations of fine particulate matter. This page is informational; for health guidance, use official sources such as EPA AirNow or WHO.
Latest sensor values
PM categories follow US EPA AQI breakpoints, shown here as an estimate derived from the latest valid measurements (this project does not compute EPA NowCast/24-hour AQI yet).
What the data includes
Burke County’s OpenAQ feed includes seven measured pollutants – nitrogen monoxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), total nitrogen oxides (NOX), ozone (O₃), particulate matter 10 µm or smaller (PM10), fine particulate matter 2.5 µm or smaller (PM2.5) and sulfur dioxide (SO₂). All of these values come from a single monitoring location at Lostwood NWR, so the dataset represents one station with seven pollutant rows.
The timestamps show that most of the data are very recent: NO, NO₂, NOX, O₃, PM2.5 and SO₂ were all last updated on 2026‑02‑11 (or 2026‑02‑10 for O₃) and are flagged as “Updated within 7 days.” The only older entry is the PM10 measurement, which dates back to 2023‑08‑14 and is labeled “Old data,” indicating a gap of more than two years for that specific metric. Because the dataset relies on a single site, spatial coverage across Burke County is limited; conditions can differ in other parts of the county or at different times of day.
Across the pollutants, most values are either zero or very low and show no variation: NO, SO₂ and the PM2.5 median are all 0.0 ppm or 1.0 µg/m³ respectively, while NO₂, NOX and O₃ each have a single recorded value (0.001 ppm for NO₂ and NOX; 0.037 ppm for O₃). The PM10 reading is consistently 4.0 µg/m³. With only one measurement per pollutant, there is no spread to describe – the minimum, median and maximum are identical for each metric. This sparsity means that while the latest data are fresh for most pollutants, the overall picture is narrow, and air‑quality conditions in Burke County may vary outside what this single station captures.
Learn more about sources and filtering: About the data.
Trusted references: WHO (Air pollution) · US EPA AirNow · European Environment Agency (Air)
Latest sensor values (bars)
PM categories follow US EPA AQI breakpoints, shown here as an estimate derived from the latest valid measurements (this project does not compute EPA NowCast/24-hour AQI yet).
Data notes
The data shown for Burke County reflects six valid measurements and was updated today, with the most recent timestamp of 2026‑02‑11T00:00:00+00:00. These values represent a snapshot from the monitoring network at that time. Air quality can vary by location and time within the city, so conditions may differ across neighborhoods or change throughout the day.
OpenAQ station rows
| Station | Parameter | Value | Unit | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lostwood NWR | no | 0.0 | ppm | 2026-02-11 00:00 UTC |
| Lostwood NWR | no2 | 0.001 | ppm | 2026-02-11 00:00 UTC |
| Lostwood NWR | nox | 0.001 | ppm | 2026-02-11 00:00 UTC |
| Lostwood NWR | o3 | 0.037 | ppm | 2026-02-10 21:00 UTC |
| Lostwood NWR | pm10 | 4.0 | µg/m³ | 2023-08-14 12:00 UTC |
| Lostwood NWR | pm25 | 1.0 | µg/m³ | 2026-02-11 00:00 UTC |
| Lostwood NWR | so2 | 0.0 | ppm | 2026-02-11 00:00 UTC |