Bay, FL
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against every other tracked county rather than against fixed national thresholds.
Environmental data for Bay in Florida · Population: 181,368
Bay, FL is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 13 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 9 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 46/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 5.1M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 5 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. EPA Air Quality System monitors logged a median AQI of 47 and a peak AQI of 215 in 2024, with 60% of observed days rated "Good" (0–50).
All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.
Air Quality History (2020–2024)
EPA Air Quality Index (AQI) data showing how many days per year fall into each air quality category.
| Year | Good | Moderate | Unhealthy (SG) | Max AQI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 214 (60%) | 141 | 0 | 215 |
| 2023 | 176 (48%) | 189 | 0 | 95 |
| 2022 | 218 (60%) | 147 | 0 | 99 |
| 2021 | 228 (62%) | 137 | 0 | 78 |
| 2020 | 210 (58%) | 151 | 2 | 146 |
Source: EPA Air Quality System (AQS) Annual AQI by County EPA Air Quality System (AQS) Annual AQI by County AQI categories: Good (0-50), Moderate (51-100), Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (101-150), Unhealthy (151-200), Very Unhealthy (201-300), Hazardous (301+)
For real-time air quality readings and pollutant breakdowns in Florida, see the EPA's AirNow.gov.
Water Systems (9)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| PANAMA CITY BEACH CITY OF | 67,205 | 0 |
| BAY COUNTY WATER SYSTEM | 40,848 | 0 |
| PANAMA CITY WATER SYSTEM | 36,139 | 0 |
| LYNN HAVEN, CITY OF WATER SYSTEM | 23,380 | 0 |
| CALLAWAY, CITY OF WATER SYSTEM | 20,520 | 1 |
| SPRINGFIELD, CITY OF | 8,075 | 11 |
| MEXICO BEACH, CITY OF | 5,888 | 16 |
| PARKER, CITY OF WATER SYSTEM | 4,317 | 6 |
| DEER HAVEN PARK | 68 | 1 |
TRI Facilities (13)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hollingshead Materials (formerly Westrock Cp LLC Rock-Tenn | 4.9M lbs |
| 2 | Kraton Chemical LLC | 207.0K lbs |
| 3 | Northwest Florida Holdings Inc | 31.4K lbs |
| 4 | US Dod Usaf Tyndall Afb Florida | 5.0K lbs |
| 5 | Chevron Panama City Terminal | 2.0K lbs |
| 6 | Gulf Power Co Plant Lansing Smith | 605 lbs |
| 7 | Trane Commercial Systems | 125 lbs |
| 8 | Mmc Materials Gulf Coast LLC - Panama City | 1 lbs |
| 9 | Mmc Materials Gulf Coast LLC - Tafb | 0 lbs |
| 10 | Ready Mix USA LLC - Panama City Main Plant | 0 lbs |
| 11 | Preferred-Panama City Beach Rm | 0 lbs |
| 12 | Texcote LLC | 0 lbs |
| 13 | Merrick Industries Inc. | 0 lbs |
Cities in Bay (5)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.