Big Bow, KS Pollen Count
Big Bow, KS · Last updated Friday, November 6, 2026
This page shows the most recent reading available for Big Bow — 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 Big Bow Overall Pollen Forecast
Bars are colored by severity (Low/Moderate/High).
Pollen count Big Bow residents check each morning
The Big Bow pollen count today is 26 (Low). The main driver is Ragweed, with weed pollen at 34 today. The full split is tree pollen 1, grass pollen 1, weed pollen 34. The sections below break that headline number down by plant, by day and by what the band means in practice. 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 Big Bow page.
Fall is ragweed season across most of the United States: ragweed plants release pollen from late summer into autumn, and weed pollen is typically the last major outdoor pollen category to fade as the weather cools. That pattern is why an autumn total is so often weed-led even when the headline number is low — tree and grass pollen have usually receded by then, leaving weed pollen, and on damp days mold, to make up most of what the index records. In the Plains and around the Great Lakes, ragweed is a familiar late-season plant of open ground, field edges and disturbed soil, which is why it so often leads inland autumn readings.
To see whether today’s pollen level holds, check the 5-day Big Bow pollen forecast below — it is currently holding, with Friday the highest day in the window.
This is the pollen count Big Bow residents check each morning, built from the day’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings.
What is the Big Bow pollen count today?
The Big Bow pollen count today is 26 out of 100 (Low) on the Pollen Atlas Total Pollen Index, driven mainly by Ragweed.
Short answer for anyone searching pollen count today Big Bow: this page is updated every morning with the day’s modelled reading.
Big Bow allergies today
Big Bow allergies today are set by the same reading as the pollen count above: the Total Pollen Index is 26 (Low), driven mainly by Ragweed. When people ask about Big Bow allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily index built from today’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings for Big Bow.
Allergies in Big Bow follow the Kansas 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 Big Bow 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 Big Bow allergy forecast: today reads 26 (Low), and the day-by-day outlook shows whether Big Bow 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 Big Bow today records is this same combined reading — tree, grass, weed and mold in one index.
The Big Bow allergy count today is 26 (Low) — the same Total Pollen Index as the pollen count above, in one combined reading.
Pollen count today Big Bow: the 5-day forecast
| Day | Total Pollen Index | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, November 6 | 26 | Low |
| Saturday, November 7 | 26 | Low |
| Sunday, November 8 | 26 | Low |
| Monday, November 9 | 26 | Low |
| Tuesday, November 10 | 26 | Low |
Pollen Atlas forecasts Big Bow’s pollen count to peak on Friday at 26 (Low) over the next 5 days.
Pollen by type in Big Bow
What is driving Big Bow’s pollen today
The shape of today’s 26 (Low) is set by weed pollen at 34 (Low on its own scale) — about 94% of the four category readings added together, 33 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 runs against the usual calendar — the Kansas 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 Big Bow, so the drivers have to be read from the category split above. The Kansas guide’s account of Kansas names ragweed, intense from late summer to frost — 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 26 to 26, never changing band. Today’s 26 sits level with the window’s average of 26 — a steady window, in which one day reads much like the next.
Plants affecting Big Bow now
Detailed plant-by-plant readings for Big Bow 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 1 (Low).
Weed pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 34 (Low).
In the South-Central Plains pattern, the plants that typically shape this city’s year are spring trees, prairie 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.
Big Bow pollen through the year
The Big Bow pollen year runs in chapters, set by the South-Central Plains pattern and the Kansas calendar. Trees come first: river-corridor trees open from February — elm and maple first, then oak and hickory. Grasses take the middle of the year: prairie grasses take over in late May and hold the summer. Weeds close it out: ragweed builds from mid-August to the first hard frost, carried county to county by plains wind. Mold shares the long middle of the year, fed by river-bottom humidity.
The Kansas allergy season guide names ragweed, intense from late summer to frost. The AAFA’s 2025 Allergy Capitals report ranked Wichita No. 1, the most challenging US metro scored — and plains wind is the multiplier, so Kansas counts often rise and fall with regional wind patterns rather than local flowering alone. The EPA tracks ragweed season length as a climate indicator, and the central plains sit in the region where that season is naturally long.
November falls between the main chapters of the Kansas 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 9 months of the Kansas year, February to October — leaving a quiet gap of roughly 3 months in the depth of the off-season. The full calendar is set out in the Kansas allergy season guide.
How to read this index
Pollen Atlas reports the Big Bow 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 Big Bow, KS 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.
Big Bow in today’s national picture
At 26 (Low), Big Bow ranks joint 32701st 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 Big Bow: Johnson City, KS (10 miles away) reads 26 (Low); Ulysses, KS (11 miles away) reads 22 (Low); Manter, KS (18 miles away) reads 26 (Low). Big Bow reads exactly level with its nearest tracked neighbour today. Across Kansas’s 740 tracked cities, today runs from 15 in Chautauqua to 32 in Bucyrus.
Pollen totals are population numbers; symptoms are personal. The same reading can leave one Big Bow resident untouched and floor another, depending on which pollens they are sensitised to. If this pattern finds you every season, allergists in Big Bow, KS 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.
Big Bow in its local area
Across Kansas’s 740 tracked cities, Big Bow ranks joint 168th today.
Like every Pollen Atlas city page, the Big Bow, KS pollen count is refreshed each morning.
Nearby cities
- Johnson City pollen count (10 miles away)
- Ulysses pollen count (11 miles away)
- Manter pollen count (18 miles away)
- Richfield pollen count (24 miles away)
- Moscow pollen count (25 miles away)
- Hugoton pollen count (29 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).