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Air quality in Wilmington

Wilmington ranks #41 of 134 US cities for clean air, with a clean-air score of 70 — Very Fun. That puts it in the 70th percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in Delaware.

clean-air score
70
Very Fun
National rank
#41 of 134
In Delaware
#1 of 1
Percentile
70th

The typical city scores 50 for clean air; Wilmington sits 20 points above the median.

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 Wilmington

  1. T#39 Greensboro, NC 71
  2. T#39 Winston-Salem, NC 71
  3. #41 Wilmington, DE — this page 70
  4. T#42 Chesapeake, VA 68
  5. T#42 Norfolk, VA 68

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 Wilmington

Wilmington scores 50 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: