Orange, CT Pollen Count

What is the Orange pollen count today?

The Orange pollen count today is 7 out of 100 (Low) on the Pollen Atlas Total Pollen Index, driven mainly by Ragweed.

Short answer for anyone searching pollen count today Orange: this page is updated every morning with the day’s modelled reading.

Orange allergies today

Orange allergies today are set by the same reading as the pollen count above: the Total Pollen Index is 7 (Low), driven mainly by Ragweed. When people ask about Orange allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily index built from today’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings for Orange.

Allergies in Orange follow the Connecticut 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 Orange 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 Orange allergy forecast: today reads 7 (Low), and the day-by-day outlook shows whether Orange 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 Orange today records is this same combined reading — tree, grass, weed and mold in one index.

The Orange allergy count today is 7 (Low) — the same Total Pollen Index as the pollen count above, in one combined reading.

Pollen count today Orange: the 5-day forecast

Pollen Atlas forecasts Orange’s pollen count to peak on Saturday at 17 (Low) over the next 5 days.

Pollen by type in Orange

• Orange tree pollen count
• Orange grass pollen count
• Orange ragweed pollen count

What is driving Orange’s pollen today

The shape of today’s 7 (Low) is set by weed pollen at 9 (Low on its own scale) — about 88% of the four category readings added together, 8.4 points clear of the next category, tree pollen at 0.6. 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 runs against the usual calendar — the Connecticut weed chapter runs August to October — so today’s lead is the model outranking the pattern, and this page reports the modelled reading first.

Plant-level detail is not in today’s feed for Orange, so the drivers have to be read from the category split above. The Connecticut guide’s account of Connecticut names oak, the spring heavyweight peaking in May, with birch alongside — 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 7 to 17, never changing band. Today’s 7 sits 8 points below the window’s average of 14.6 — a moving window, worth reading day by day rather than from the average.

Plants affecting Orange now

Detailed plant-by-plant readings for Orange 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 0.6 (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 9 (Low).

In the Northeast pattern, the plants that typically shape this city’s year are spring trees, late-spring grasses and late-summer ragweed — 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.

Orange pollen through the year

The Orange pollen year runs in chapters, set by the Northeast pattern and the Connecticut calendar. Trees come first: trees open in late March and build to an oak-led peak in May. Grasses take the middle of the year: grasses hold from late May into July. Weeds close it out: ragweed builds from mid-August, peaks in September, and is ended by the first hard frost. Mold tracks the region’s humidity rather than a flowering calendar, and it fills the gaps between chapters.

The Connecticut allergy season guide names oak, the spring heavyweight peaking in May, with birch alongside. Connecticut’s season runs from late March to the first hard frost in three clear acts, and the Connecticut River Valley’s farm bottomlands give Hartford a fall ragweed peak to match its spring. The shore trades a little pollen relief from Sound breezes for elevated mold, while the northwest hills start latest and finish earliest.

November falls between the main chapters of the Connecticut pollen year — the tail of one and the approach of the next — so the calendar alone explains little today, and the modelled split above carries the story. Between them, the three chapters cover 8 months of the Connecticut year, March to October — a compressed season, which is why its chapters arrive in quick succession. The full calendar is set out in the Connecticut allergy season guide.

How to read this index

Pollen Atlas reports the Orange 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 even in a month when Orange, CT pollen is usually more active. 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.

Orange in today’s national picture

At 7 (Low), Orange ranks joint 83515th 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 Orange: West Haven, CT (3 miles away) reads 7 (Low); Derby, CT (4 miles away) reads 7 (Low); Milford, CT (5 miles away) reads 8 (Low). Orange reads exactly level with its nearest tracked neighbour today. Across Connecticut’s 215 tracked cities, today runs from 5 in Essex Village to 10 in Rockville.

Pollen totals are population numbers; symptoms are personal. The same reading can leave one Orange resident untouched and floor another, depending on which pollens they are sensitised to. If this pattern finds you every season, allergists in Orange, CT 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.

Orange in its local area

Orange is a census-designated place in South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. Its population is 14,251 (ACS 2023).

Across Connecticut’s 215 tracked cities, Orange ranks joint 34th today.

Like every Pollen Atlas city page, the Orange, CT pollen count is refreshed each morning.

Nearby cities

• West Haven pollen count (3 miles away)
• Derby pollen count (4 miles away)
• Milford pollen count (5 miles away)
• Woodmont pollen count (5 miles away)
• Ansonia pollen count (5 miles away)
• Oronoque pollen count (5 miles away)

From Pollen Atlas News

• Connecticut allergy season
• Ragweed season