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Health & Society · intraday ban:none tA

Air quality (PM2.5) EPA AirNow real-time by metro

hourly AQI reading per monitoring station

Feed detail
Measures
hourly AQI reading per monitoring station
Source
EPA AirNow API (airnowapi.org)
Access
json-api
Cadence
intradayupdates multiple times a day
Thesis
Wildfire-smoke AQI spikes predict respiratory ER visits and mask/air-purifier retail surges, plus insurance claims regionally
Maps to
air purifier makers, respiratory pharma (inhalers), P&C insurers
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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