Orange, TX
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 Orange in Texas · Population: 84,993
Orange, TX is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 19 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 7 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 55/100 (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 30.0M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 4 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. EPA Air Quality System monitors logged a median AQI of 44 and a peak AQI of 119 in 2024, with 65% 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 | 238 (65%) | 125 | 3 | 119 |
| 2023 | 213 (58%) | 151 | 1 | 101 |
| 2022 | 247 (68%) | 116 | 2 | 108 |
| 2021 | 262 (72%) | 102 | 0 | 80 |
| 2020 | 223 (62%) | 137 | 2 | 103 |
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 Texas, see the EPA's AirNow.gov.
Water Systems (7)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| ORANGE COUNTY WCID 1 | 15,258 | 142 |
| CITY OF BRIDGE CITY | 9,546 | 6 |
| CITY OF PINEHURST | 3,131 | 0 |
| CITY OF ROSE CITY | 664 | 300 |
| CITY OF BRIDGE CITY WATERWOOD ESTATES | 240 | 6 |
| SUNRISE EAST APARTMENTS | 118 | 0 |
| MOBILE ESTATES MOBILE HOME PARK | 91 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (19)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inv Nylon Chemicals Americas Orange Site | 9.1M lbs |
| 2 | Usg Paper LLC | 7.6M lbs |
| 3 | Dow Sabine River Operations | 4.0M lbs |
| 4 | Optimus Steel LLC | 4.0M lbs |
| 5 | Arlanxeo | 2.2M lbs |
| 6 | Lion Elastomers Orange LLC | 718.2K lbs |
| 7 | Solvay Specialty Polymers USA LLC | 708.1K lbs |
| 8 | Honeywell International Inc | 600.1K lbs |
| 9 | Chevron Phillips Chemical Co Lp-Orange | 555.2K lbs |
| 10 | Orion Engineered Carbons Orange Plant | 382.3K lbs |
| 11 | Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions Inc. - Orange | 66.2K lbs |
| 12 | CHEM32 LLC | 46.5K lbs |
| 13 | Jefferson Railport Terminal | 12.7K lbs |
| 14 | Arcwood Environmental - Orange LLC | 3.5K lbs |
| 15 | Alloy Polymers | 750 lbs |
| 16 | Webco Industries Inc. Tx Dist. Div. | 510 lbs |
| 17 | Conrad Orange Shipyard Inc. | 103 lbs |
| 18 | Tms International LLC | 52 lbs |
| 19 | Mm - Orange Ready Mix | 0 lbs |
Cities in Orange (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.