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 Plaines · updated 12 hr ago · showing last good readingAir quality
42GoodUS AQI
PM2.5 12μg/m³PM10 12μg/m³Ozone 42μg/m³NO₂ 37μg/m³
Water monitoring
No live streamgage nearby.
Active alerts
- UnknownHydrologic Outlook
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 42 (Good). Observed Sep 30, 11:00 PM.
11.8 μg/m³PM2.5
11.9 μg/m³PM10
42.0 μg/m³Ozone
37.1 μg/m³NO₂
2.8 μg/m³SO₂
211.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Active weather alerts1
UnknownHydrologic Outlookuntil Oct 1, 9:00 AM
Hydrologic Outlook issued September 30 at 1:02PM CDT by NWS Chicago IL
Boone, IL; Cook, IL; De Kalb, IL; DuPage, IL; Grundy, IL; Kane, IL; Kendall, IL; Lake, IL; La Salle, IL; Lee, IL; McHenry, IL; Ogle, IL; Will, IL; Winnebago, IL; Lake, IN; Porter, IN
Source: National Weather Service ↗
Earthquakes — last 30 days0
✓ No earthquakes ≥ M2.5 within 250 km.
Source: USGS Earthquake Catalog ↗
Superfund sites
49 active EPA Superfund (National Priorities List) sites in IL of 56 ever listed.
Kerr-McGee (Residential Areas)
DuPage County, West Chicago · NPL Site · 32 km away
The state’s energy ledger
What IL’s grid runs on, its EV fleet and charging network, and where its mandate stands — from the national Energy Ledger.
Open the IL energy dossier →Snapshot generated Oct 1, 4:44 AM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.