Environmental watch
What's in the air, water, and ground around here.
Live environmental OSINT for your community, pulled from public federal feeds — the EPA, the USGS, and the National Weather Service. No account, no tracking; every number links back to its public source. Auto-refreshes about every 30 minutes.
🌎 Environmental watch
Live public data for Columbia · updated 12 hr ago · showing last good readingAir quality
61ModerateUS AQI
PM2.5 8μg/m³PM10 8μg/m³Ozone 86μg/m³NO₂ 6μg/m³
Water monitoring
No live streamgage nearby.
Active alerts
- ModerateHeat Advisory
Earthquakes · 30 days
✓ None ≥ M2.5 nearby
Sources: Open-Meteo Air Quality, USGS Water Services, National Weather Service, USGS Earthquake Catalog, EPA National Priorities List. All public, no personal data.
Air quality — full readout
US Air Quality Index 61 (Moderate). Observed Aug 14, 9:00 PM.
7.7 μg/m³PM2.5
8.3 μg/m³PM10
86.0 μg/m³Ozone
5.8 μg/m³NO₂
0.5 μg/m³SO₂
181.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Active weather alerts1
ModerateHeat Advisoryuntil Aug 16, 12:00 AM
Heat Advisory issued August 14 at 3:29PM EDT until August 15 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Columbia SC
Lincoln; McDuffie; Columbia; Richmond; Burke; Chesterfield; McCormick; Newberry; Fairfield; Kershaw; Edgefield; Saluda; Lexington; Richland; Lee; Aiken; Sumter; Barnwell; Calhoun; Clarendon; Bamberg; Northern Lancaster; Southern Lancaster; Northwestern Orangeburg; Central Orangeburg; Southeastern Orangeburg
Source: National Weather Service ↗
Earthquakes — last 30 days0
✓ No earthquakes ≥ M2.5 within 250 km.
Source: USGS Earthquake Catalog ↗
Superfund sites
28 active EPA Superfund (National Priorities List) sites in SC of 34 ever listed.
Palmetto Wood Preserving
Dixiana · NPL Site · 9 km away
The state’s energy ledger
What SC’s grid runs on, its EV fleet and charging network, and where its mandate stands — from the national Energy Ledger.
Open the SC energy dossier →Snapshot generated Aug 15, 1:11 AM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.