New River, AZ Pollen Count
New River, AZ · Last updated Friday, November 6, 2026
This page shows the most recent reading available for New River — from Friday, November 6, 2026 (1 day ago) — not today's reading.
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 New River Overall Pollen Forecast
Bars are colored by severity (Low/Moderate/High).
Pollen count New River residents check each morning
The New River pollen count today is 20 (Low). The main driver is Ragweed, with weed pollen at 23 today. That total sits on a narrow base: weed pollen is 23 while tree pollen is just 20 and grass pollen 2. Plant-by-plant detail for New River, AZ follows, along with the outlook for the days ahead. Pollen Atlas updated this count on Friday, November 6, 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 New River 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 New River pollen forecast below — it is currently holding, with Friday the highest day in the window.
This is the pollen count New River residents check each morning, built from the day’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings.
What is the New River pollen count today?
The New River 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 New River: this page is updated every morning with the day’s modelled reading.
New River allergies today
New River 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 New River allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily index built from today’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings for New River.
Allergies in New River 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 New River 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 New River allergy forecast: today reads 20 (Low), and the day-by-day outlook shows whether New River 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 New River today records is this same combined reading — tree, grass, weed and mold in one index.
The New River allergy count today is 20 (Low) — the same Total Pollen Index as the pollen count above, in one combined reading.
Pollen count today New River: the 5-day forecast
| Day | Total Pollen Index | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, November 6 | 20 | Low |
| Saturday, November 7 | 20 | Low |
| Sunday, November 8 | 20 | Low |
| Monday, November 9 | 20 | Low |
| Tuesday, November 10 | 20 | Low |
Pollen Atlas forecasts New River’s pollen count to peak on Friday at 20 (Low) over the next 5 days.
Pollen by type in New River
What is driving New River’s pollen today
The shape of today’s 20 (Low) is set by weed pollen at 23 (Low on its own scale) — about 51% of the four category readings added together, 3 points clear of the next category, tree pollen at 20. 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 New River, 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 20 to 20, never changing band. Today’s 20 sits level with the window’s average of 20 — a steady window, in which one day reads much like the next.
Plants affecting New River now
Detailed plant-by-plant readings for New River 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 20 (Low).
Grass pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 2 (Low).
Weed pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 23 (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.
New River pollen through the year
Chapter by chapter, the New River 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 New River 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 New River 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.
New River in today’s national picture
At 20 (Low), New River ranks joint 50794th of the 90896 cities Pollen Atlas tracks today — in the middle of the national table. The highest reading in the country today is Serpa, Portugal at 53, and the lowest is Galiakberovo, Russia at 5. The whole table spans 48 points today — a wide-open day, when the top and bottom of the table are effectively in different seasons.
Around New River: Anthem, AZ (3 miles away) reads 22 (Low); Cave Creek, AZ (7 miles away) reads 24 (Low); Carefree, AZ (11 miles away) reads 26 (Low). New River reads 2 points lower 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 New River resident untouched and floor another, depending on which pollens they are sensitised to. If this pattern finds you every ragweed season, allergists in New River, 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.
New River in its local area
New River is a census-designated place in Maricopa County, Arizona. Its population is 18,365 (ACS 2023).
Across Arizona’s 465 tracked cities, New River ranks joint 201st today.
Like every Pollen Atlas city page, the New River, AZ pollen count is refreshed each morning.
Nearby cities
- Anthem pollen count (3 miles away)
- Cave Creek pollen count (7 miles away)
- Carefree pollen count (11 miles away)
- Black Canyon City pollen count (13 miles away)
- Peoria pollen count (14 miles away)
- Scottsdale pollen count (19 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).