Balcones Heights, TX Pollen Count Today
Balcones Heights, TX · 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 Balcones Heights Overall Pollen Forecast
Bars are colored by severity (Low/Moderate/High).
Pollen count Balcones Heights residents check each morning
The Balcones Heights pollen count today is 15 (Low). The main driver is Ragweed, with weed pollen at 17 today. The full split is tree pollen 13, grass pollen 4, weed pollen 17. 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 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 Balcones Heights 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.
To see whether today’s pollen level holds, check the 5-day Balcones Heights pollen forecast below — it is currently mixed, with Wednesday the highest day in the window.
This is the pollen count Balcones Heights residents check each morning, built from the day’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings.
What is the Balcones Heights pollen count today?
The Balcones Heights pollen count today is 15 out of 100 (Low) on the Pollen Atlas Total Pollen Index, driven mainly by Ragweed.
Short answer for anyone searching pollen count today Balcones Heights: this page is updated every morning with the day’s modelled reading.
Balcones Heights allergies today
Balcones Heights allergies today are set by the same reading as the pollen count above: the Total Pollen Index is 15 (Low), driven mainly by Ragweed. When people ask about Balcones Heights allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily index built from today’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings for Balcones Heights.
Allergies in Balcones Heights follow the Texas 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 Balcones Heights 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 Balcones Heights allergy forecast: today reads 15 (Low), and the day-by-day outlook shows whether Balcones Heights 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 Balcones Heights today records is this same combined reading — tree, grass, weed and mold in one index.
The Balcones Heights allergy count today is 15 (Low) — the same Total Pollen Index as the pollen count above, in one combined reading.
Pollen count today Balcones Heights: the 5-day forecast
| Day | Total Pollen Index | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, November 7 | 15 | Low |
| Sunday, November 8 | 9 | Low |
| Monday, November 9 | 9 | Low |
| Tuesday, November 10 | 9 | Low |
| Wednesday, November 11 | 17 | Low |
Pollen Atlas forecasts Balcones Heights’s pollen count to peak on Wednesday at 17 (Low) over the next 5 days.
Pollen by type in Balcones Heights
What is driving Balcones Heights’s pollen today
The shape of today’s 15 (Low) is set by weed pollen at 17 (Low on its own scale) — about 50% of the four category readings added together, 4 points clear of the next category, tree pollen at 13. 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 Texas 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 Balcones Heights, so the drivers have to be read from the category split above. The Texas guide’s account of Texas names mountain cedar — Ashe juniper — in winter, oak in spring and ragweed from August — 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 9 to 17, never changing band. Today’s 15 sits 3 points above the window’s average of 11.8 — a moving window, worth reading day by day rather than from the average.
Plants affecting Balcones Heights now
Detailed plant-by-plant readings for Balcones Heights 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 13 (Low).
Grass pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 4 (Low).
Weed pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 17 (Low).
In the Gulf & South Texas pattern, the plants that typically shape this city’s year are spring trees, warm-season grasses, late-summer ragweed and winter mountain cedar in the west of the region — 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.
Balcones Heights pollen through the year
The Balcones Heights pollen year runs in chapters, set by the Gulf & South Texas pattern and the Texas calendar. Trees come first: mountain cedar runs from December to March in the west of the region, and oak leads the spring. Grasses take the middle of the year: grasses carry the hot months, with mold close behind in the Gulf humidity. Weeds close it out: ragweed runs from August toward a mild, late finish. Outdoor mold stays elevated for much of the year in the Gulf humidity and can co-headline a reading in any month.
The Texas allergy season guide names mountain cedar — Ashe juniper — in winter, oak in spring and ragweed from August. Texas runs four seasons back to back — cedar from December to March, oak and other trees in spring, grasses through summer, ragweed to the first frost — so its true low window is short. Pollen seasons are generally growing longer and more intense across the Northern Hemisphere, research by Ziska and colleagues (2019) found — a trend Texas’s near-year-round calendar already illustrates.
November in Balcones Heights sits inside the weed chapter of the Texas year, in its closing weeks — the part of the calendar today’s readings should be judged against. Between them, the three chapters touch every month of the Texas year — there is no reliably empty month in this calendar. The full calendar is set out in the Texas allergy season guide.
How to read this index
Pollen Atlas reports the Balcones Heights 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 Balcones Heights, TX 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.
Balcones Heights in today’s national picture
At 15 (Low), Balcones Heights ranks joint 68240th 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 Balcones Heights: Castle Hills, TX (3 miles away) reads 15 (Low); Olmos Park, TX (4 miles away) reads 15 (Low); Leon Valley, TX (4 miles away) reads 15 (Low). Balcones Heights reads exactly level with its nearest tracked neighbour today. Across Texas’s 1843 tracked cities, today runs from 7 in Van Horn to 42 in Gunter.
Pollen totals are population numbers; symptoms are personal. The same reading can leave one Balcones Heights resident untouched and floor another, depending on which pollens they are sensitised to. If this pattern finds you every ragweed season, allergists in Balcones Heights, TX 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.
Balcones Heights in its local area
Across Texas’s 1843 tracked cities, Balcones Heights ranks joint 1419th today.
Like every Pollen Atlas city page, the Balcones Heights, TX pollen count is refreshed each morning.
Nearby cities
- Castle Hills pollen count (3 miles away)
- Olmos Park pollen count (4 miles away)
- Leon Valley pollen count (4 miles away)
- Alamo Heights pollen count (5 miles away)
- San Antonio pollen count (6 miles away)
- Terrell Hills pollen count (6 miles away)
From Pollen Atlas News
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).