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 Des Moines · updated 9 hr ago · showing last good readingAir quality
31GoodUS AQI
PM2.5 4μg/m³PM10 4μg/m³Ozone 72μg/m³NO₂ 7μg/m³
Water monitoring
Des Moines River At 2Nd Avenue At Des Moines, Ia · 1.5 km away
5430 ft3/sStreamflow
17.38 ftGage height
Active alerts
- SevereFlood Watch
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 31 (Good). Observed Sep 29, 3:00 PM.
3.8 μg/m³PM2.5
3.9 μg/m³PM10
72.0 μg/m³Ozone
6.6 μg/m³NO₂
2.0 μg/m³SO₂
158.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Water monitoring — nearest site
Des Moines River At 2Nd Avenue At Des Moines, Ia · 1.5 km away · 25 sites in range
5430 ft3/sStreamflow · Sep 29, 8:15 PM
17.38 ftGage height · Sep 29, 8:15 PM
Source: USGS Water Services ↗
Active weather alerts1
SevereFlood Watchuntil Oct 2, 6:00 AM
Flood Watch issued September 29 at 9:38AM CDT until October 2 at 1:00AM CDT by NWS Des Moines IA
Emmet; Kossuth; Winnebago; Worth; Palo Alto; Hancock; Cerro Gordo; Pocahontas; Humboldt; Wright; Franklin; Butler; Bremer; Sac; Calhoun; Webster; Hamilton; Hardin; Grundy; Black Hawk; Crawford; Carroll; Greene; Boone; Story; Marshall; Tama; Audubon; Guthrie; Dallas; Polk; Jasper; Poweshiek; Cass; Adair; Madison; Warren; Marion; Mahaska; Adams; Union; Clarke; Lucas; Monroe; Taylor; Ringgold; Decatur; Wayne
Source: National Weather Service ↗
Earthquakes — last 30 days0
✓ No earthquakes ≥ M2.5 within 250 km.
Source: USGS Earthquake Catalog ↗
Superfund sites
14 active EPA Superfund (National Priorities List) sites in IA of 25 ever listed.
Des Moines TCE
Des Moines · NPL Site · 3 km away
The state’s energy ledger
What IA’s grid runs on, its EV fleet and charging network, and where its mandate stands — from the national Energy Ledger.
Open the IA energy dossier →Snapshot generated Sep 29, 8:54 PM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.