New Mexico's environment, county by county
Three environmental pictures, each on its own terms — the air people breathe (EPA monitors), the toxic chemicals industrial facilities release (EPA TRI), and the drought gripping the land right now (U.S. Drought Monitor). We keep them separate on purpose: they're different kinds of harm, and this tool doesn't rank whose environmental burden matters more. Pick a lens, open a county, or search your address.
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Click a county for its air quality, toxic-release, and current drought picture — and how it stands versus the rest of the state on each.
Air quality: EPA annual AQI by county, 2023 (aqs.epa.gov) — good/moderate/unhealthy days and median AQI. Only the ~15 NM counties with an EPA monitor appear; blank counties aren't necessarily clean, they're unmeasured. Toxic releases: EPA Toxics Release Inventory, 2023 (data.epa.gov) — pounds of listed chemicals released on- and off-site, self-reported by covered industrial facilities. It's a real, important signal but not all pollution, and pounds ≠ hazard (a pound of one chemical isn't a pound of another). Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, most recent week (usdmdataservices.unl.edu) — the share of each county in severe drought (D2) or worse. Describes conditions to inform stewardship and response; it never ranks whose community matters more. How this data may & may not be used →