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Air quality in Irvine

Irvine ranks T#64 of 134 US cities for clean air, with a clean-air score of 50 — Fun. That puts it in the 53rd percentile nationally and T#11 of 18 in California.

clean-air score
50
Fun
National rank
T#64 of 134
In California
T#11 of 18
Percentile
53rd

The typical city scores 50 for clean air; Irvine sits right at the median.

Irvine has no air quality measurement yet, so this score is the index median placeholder (≈50), not a measured value. The composite Fun Score renormalises around the gap, so Irvine’s headline number is unaffected.

How air quality is measured

Recent particulate matter and ozone levels — a trailing-week air-quality average.

The clean-air score is the flip side of our air quality measure — 100 minus the raw air quality score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: EPA AirNow and OpenAQ pollution readings (seven-day trailing average).

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Irvine

  1. T#62 Madison, WI 54
  2. T#62 Wichita, KS 54
  3. T#64 Irvine, CA — this page 50
  4. #72 Los Angeles, CA 47
  5. T#73 Atlanta, GA 45

See the full leaderboard — Cities with the cleanest air →

Top US cities for clean air

  1. #1 Anchorage, AK 100
  2. #2 Bend, OR 99
  3. T#3 Lubbock, TX 98
  4. T#3 Telluride, CO 98
  5. #5 Montgomery, AL 97

More about Irvine

Irvine scores 57 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: