Cottonwood, AZ Pollen Count Today
Cottonwood, AZ · Updated Saturday, November 7, 2026
Pollen Overview
Today's overall pollen level and the dominant type (trees, weeds, grass, or mold).
Total Pollen Index
The combined pollen level across all types (0–100).
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Weeds Index
How active weeds pollen is today (0–100).
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Pollen Types
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5-Day Cottonwood Overall Pollen Forecast
Bars are colored by severity (Low/Moderate/High).
Pollen count Cottonwood residents check each morning
The Cottonwood pollen count today is 20 (Low). The main driver is Ragweed, with weed pollen at 26 today. That total sits on a narrow base: weed pollen is 26 while tree pollen is just 1 and grass pollen 0.6. Plant-by-plant detail for Cottonwood, AZ follows, along with the outlook for the days ahead. Pollen Atlas updated this count on Saturday, November 7, 2026.
A Low band on the Pollen Atlas index means the Total Pollen Index has stayed in the lower part of the 0–100 scale. Readings in this band are built from low individual category values rather than from one large spike, and the category split above matters more than the headline number: a low total can still contain one category, such as weed pollen or mold, reading noticeably higher than the rest, which is why the split is printed on every Cottonwood page.
Desert Southwest pollen does not follow a single national calendar. Arid conditions limit some pollen types for much of the year, while irrigated urban landscaping introduces trees and grasses that would not otherwise grow in the desert, and wind can move pollen across an open landscape efficiently. Readings in this region in particular should be judged against their own split and their own recent days, not against humid-region expectations: a low total here reflects today’s modelled categories, whatever the month.
To see whether today’s pollen level holds, check the 5-day Cottonwood pollen forecast below — it is currently holding, with Saturday the highest day in the window.
This is the pollen count Cottonwood residents check each morning, built from the day’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings.
What is the Cottonwood pollen count today?
The Cottonwood pollen count today is 20 out of 100 (Low) on the Pollen Atlas Total Pollen Index, driven mainly by Ragweed.
Short answer for anyone searching pollen count today Cottonwood: this page is updated every morning with the day’s modelled reading.
Cottonwood allergies today
Cottonwood allergies today are set by the same reading as the pollen count above: the Total Pollen Index is 20 (Low), driven mainly by Ragweed. When people ask about Cottonwood allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily index built from today’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings for Cottonwood.
Allergies in Cottonwood follow the Arizona calendar set out below — the chapters, the plants behind them, and the 5-day forecast on this page show whether today is typical for the season or an exception to it. If you are checking allergies today in Cottonwood before heading outdoors, the split at the top of this page is the part to read: it shows which pollen is doing the work today, not just how high the total sits.
Read the five-day table on this page as the Cottonwood allergy forecast: today reads 20 (Low), and the day-by-day outlook shows whether Cottonwood allergies are set to ease or build across the week — the days to plan outdoor time around are the ones where the index steps down, not just today.
In practice, the allergy count Cottonwood today records is this same combined reading — tree, grass, weed and mold in one index.
The Cottonwood allergy count today is 20 (Low) — the same Total Pollen Index as the pollen count above, in one combined reading.
Pollen count today Cottonwood: the 5-day forecast
| Day | Total Pollen Index | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, November 7 | 20 | Low |
| Sunday, November 8 | 20 | Low |
| Monday, November 9 | 19 | Low |
| Tuesday, November 10 | 19 | Low |
| Wednesday, November 11 | 19 | Low |
Pollen Atlas forecasts Cottonwood’s pollen count to peak on Saturday at 20 (Low) over the next 5 days.
Pollen by type in Cottonwood
What is driving Cottonwood’s pollen today
The shape of today’s 20 (Low) is set by weed pollen at 26 (Low on its own scale) — about 94% of the four category readings added together, 25 points clear of the next category, tree pollen at 1. A weed-led total is the classic late-year shape: tree and grass pollen have usually receded, leaving weed pollen — and on damp days mold — to make up most of what the index records. Weed pollen leading in November is the Arizona calendar working as expected — November falls in the closing weeks of the state’s weed chapter.
Plant-level detail is not in today’s feed for Cottonwood, so the drivers have to be read from the category split above. The Arizona guide’s account of Arizona names mulberry, ash and olive — planted trees, not wild desert flora — the pollens behind readings of this shape in this state — and the split shows how much of today’s total each category is actually carrying.
Across the five-day window the Total Pollen Index runs from 19 to 20, never changing band. Today’s 20 sits 1 point above the window’s average of 19.4 — a steady window, in which one day reads much like the next.
Plants affecting Cottonwood now
Detailed plant-by-plant readings for Cottonwood were not returned in today\u2019s source data, so this section summarises the pollen types the index above is built from instead of listing individual plants.
Tree pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 1 (Low).
Grass pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 0.6 (Low).
Weed pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 26 (Low).
In the Desert Southwest pattern, the plants that typically shape this city’s year are irrigated landscape trees and grasses, with wind-carried weeds in open ground — named here as regional context only, not as today\u2019s measurements.
Plant detail returns here automatically on any day the source data includes it.
Every pollen type, with photos and seasons: the pollen directory.
Cottonwood pollen through the year
Chapter by chapter, the Cottonwood pollen year runs like this:
- Planted trees open in winter — the juniper family and ash first, mulberry at the heart of spring.
- Irrigated Bermuda grass runs long rather than intense, across much of the warm season.
- A final weed wave follows the monsoon rains into fall, with monsoon mold in the same weeks.
The Arizona allergy season guide names mulberry, ash and olive — planted trees, not wild desert flora. Arizona’s season arrives in waves shaped by desert botany and desert weather, with a midsummer heat lull and a mold bump when the monsoon breaks. Phoenix and Tucson often peak weeks apart: Tucson sits at roughly 2,400 feet against Phoenix’s 1,100, and its cooler nights delay its tree wave by a matter of weeks.
November in Cottonwood sits in the overlap of the grass and weed chapters of the Arizona year — overlap weeks, when two chapters feed the same total and the split matters more than the headline. Between them, the three chapters cover 11 months of the Arizona year, January to November — a long season by national standards, with only a short quiet gap. The full calendar is set out in the Arizona allergy season guide.
How to read this index
Pollen Atlas reports the Cottonwood pollen count on a Total Pollen Index from 0 to 100, built from separate tree, grass and weed readings. The total is a summary, not an average of the three: a single strong category can lift it, and three quiet categories can hold it down whatever the month. Index values are a modelled pollen risk index computed by Pollen Atlas from open weather, vegetation and phenology data, calibrated against CDC/NAB season data, with plant detail by the Google Pollen API. The index is a modelled 0–100 scale, not a measured count, and figures update through the day, so a morning and an evening visit to this page can legitimately show different numbers.
Cottonwood in today’s national picture
At 20 (Low), Cottonwood ranks joint 50955th of the 90896 cities Pollen Atlas tracks today — in the middle of the national table. The highest reading in the country today is Beja, Portugal at 52, and the lowest is Los Ángeles de San Rafael, Spain at 5. The whole table spans 47 points today — a wide-open day, when the top and bottom of the table are effectively in different seasons.
Around Cottonwood: Low Mountain, AZ (15 miles away) reads 17 (Low); Chinle, AZ (18 miles away) reads 23 (Low); Pinon, AZ (18 miles away) reads 19 (Low). Cottonwood reads 3 points higher than its nearest tracked neighbour today. Across Arizona’s 465 tracked cities, today runs from 5 in Fort Valley to 36 in Rillito.
Pollen totals are population numbers; symptoms are personal. The same reading can leave one Cottonwood resident untouched and floor another, depending on which pollens they are sensitised to. If this pattern finds you every ragweed season, allergists in Cottonwood, AZ can test whether tree, grass, weed or mold is the category that matters for you — the four readings at the top of this page are the starting point for that conversation.
Cottonwood in its local area
Cottonwood is a census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona. Its population is 122 (ACS 2023).
Across Arizona’s 465 tracked cities, Cottonwood ranks joint 211th today.
Like every Pollen Atlas city page, the Cottonwood, AZ pollen count is refreshed each morning.
Nearby cities
- Low Mountain pollen count (15 miles away)
- Chinle pollen count (18 miles away)
- Pinon pollen count (18 miles away)
- Steamboat pollen count (22 miles away)
- Rough Rock pollen count (23 miles away)
- Many Farms pollen count (23 miles away)
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Pollen indexes: a modelled pollen risk index computed by Pollen Atlas from open weather, vegetation and phenology data, calibrated against CDC/NAB season data. Plant detail: Google Pollen API. Index values are modelled, not measured counts. Sources: CDC/NAB; USA-NPN; GBIF (CC BY); ESA WorldCover (CC BY 4.0).