Tree Pollen Count in Amherst Town, MA — Today

Pollen by type in Amherst Town

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What is the tree pollen count in Amherst Town today?

The Amherst Town tree pollen index today is 0.6 (Low) on Pollen Atlas’s modelled 0–100 scale. Low

Modelled pollen risk index — not a measured count.

Amherst Town’s overall pollen count today is 8 (Low) across all types. See the full Amherst Town pollen count for the overall index and every type together.

Amherst Town is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Its population is 35,472 (ACS 2023).

Amherst Town Tree Pollen Count: 5-Day Forecast

Pollen Atlas models the daily detail as an overall index: day-by-day splits by individual pollen type are not part of the modelled data, so this table shows Amherst Town’s overall trend across the week. Today’s tree pollen reading is the headline above.

Species driving Amherst Town’s tree pollen

Species-level counts are not part of the modelled data Pollen Atlas publishes — the modelled index is reported per pollen type, not per species — so this section gives the type summary: tree pollen reads 0.6 (Low) today. The plant-by-plant detail that is available, from the Google Pollen API, is in the next section.

Plants affecting Amherst Town now — tree pollen

Detailed plant-by-plant readings for the tree pollen category were not returned in today’s source data for Amherst Town. The type summary stands: tree pollen reads 0.6 (Low) today.

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’s readings.

Plant detail returns here automatically on any day the feed includes it.

What this tree pollen level means

Low risk. Keep windows open; consider allergy meds only if sensitive.

Enjoy outdoor activities.

Trees open in late March and build to an oak-led peak in May. This month sits outside the usual tree pollen window for the Northeast pattern, so today’s tree pollen reading is the modelled value outranking the calendar — this page reports the modelled reading first. The Massachusetts allergy season guide singles out birch, opening the spring in April, and oak carrying the peak through May.

Amherst Town allergies today

Amherst Town allergies today are set by the same reading as the Amherst Town pollen count today: the Total Pollen Index is 8 (Low), and the tree pollen index on this page is 0.6 (Low) of it. When people ask about Amherst Town allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily modelled index built from today’s tree, grass and weed index values for Amherst Town.

Allergies in Amherst Town follow the Massachusetts calendar set out on the full Amherst Town page — the chapters, the plants behind them, and the 5-day forecast show whether today is typical for the season or an exception to it. If you are checking allergies today in Amherst Town before heading outdoors, the tree pollen split on this page is the part to read: it shows whether this pollen type is doing the work today, not just how high the total sits.

Read the five-day overall trend above as the Amherst Town allergy forecast for the tree pollen season: it shows whether Amherst Town allergies are set to ease or build across the week, day by day — the days to plan outdoor time around are the ones where the overall index steps down, not just today.