An air quality alert is issued when air pollution is high, so we can adjust our activities and avoid certain things, like being outdoors during the hottest part of the day. When heat and sunlight mix with exhaust from vehicles and industry, ozone levels rise. Ozone is one of five pollutants considered when calculating air quality. High ozone can aggravate asthma, leading to coughing, wheezing or chest tightness, and allergy sufferers are impacted by ozone as well.

Every year, a group known as the Environmental Citizens Advisory Committee comes together with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to go over what the EPA found over the last year in terms of air quality throughout Allen County. The EPA mainly monitors three areas for their air quality report, and have now released the levels for ozone formation, sulfur dioxide, and smaller matter that is equal to or lesser than a certain size in 2018. What they found was that the county stayed within the level requirements that are set by the EPA.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has been monitoring the levels of certain air toxics in Allen County.

The air quality in Allen County is good and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says that it has been getting better over the past few years.