Escambia, 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 Escambia in Florida · Population: 323,275
Escambia, FL is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 20 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 11 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 48/100 (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 125.1M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 1 water system carries an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. EPA Air Quality System monitors logged a median AQI of 43 and a peak AQI of 84 in 2024, with 70% 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 | 256 (70%) | 110 | 0 | 84 |
| 2023 | 178 (49%) | 186 | 1 | 108 |
| 2022 | 191 (52%) | 173 | 1 | 133 |
| 2021 | 200 (55%) | 165 | 0 | 75 |
| 2020 | 176 (49%) | 184 | 0 | 82 |
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 (11)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| PEOPLES WATER SERVICE COMPANY | 24,806 | 0 |
| NAS PENSACOLA / CORRY STATION | 22,600 | 0 |
| GULF BREEZE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM | 17,596 | 0 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA | 13,285 | 0 |
| FARM HILL UTILITIES, INC. | 10,346 | 0 |
| MOLINO UTILITIES, INC. | 8,845 | 0 |
| GONZALEZ UTILITIES ASSOCIATION, INC. | 6,668 | 0 |
| COTTAGE HILL WATER WORKS | 5,639 | 0 |
| CENTURY, TOWN OF | 3,490 | 0 |
| CENTRAL WATER WORKS | 2,560 | 2 |
| NAS SAUFLEY FIELD | 1,728 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (20)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC | 116.3M lbs |
| 2 | International Paper Pensacola Mill | 6.4M lbs |
| 3 | Gulf Clean Energy Center | 967.0K lbs |
| 4 | Armstrong World Industries Inc. | 274.5K lbs |
| 5 | Jupiter Bach N.a. | 264.7K lbs |
| 6 | Cytiva US LLC | 245.9K lbs |
| 7 | Polynt Composites USA Inc | 151.8K lbs |
| 8 | Bluewindtechnology | 140.3K lbs |
| 9 | West Fraser McDavid Lumber Mill | 118.0K lbs |
| 10 | Blazer Boats Inc | 80.2K lbs |
| 11 | U.S. Navy Naval Air Station Pensacola | 57.3K lbs |
| 12 | Kraton Chemical LLC | 46.9K lbs |
| 13 | Cerex Advanced Fabrics Inc | 5.0K lbs |
| 14 | Santoprene Production Pensacola LLC | 3.7K lbs |
| 15 | Wayne Dalton of Pensacola a Div of Overhead Door Corp | 48 lbs |
| 16 | Coastal an Oldcastle Co | 0 lbs |
| 17 | Foley Products Co - Cantonment | 0 lbs |
| 18 | Ready Mix USA Llc-Cantonment Plant | 0 lbs |
| 19 | Bayou Concrete LLC - Pensacola | 0 lbs |
| 20 | American Concrete Supply Inc - Cantonment Plant | 0 lbs |
Cities in Escambia (3)
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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.