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How Bad is Napa's Pollution? See What New State Figures Say (Map)

State officials have released figures on every zip code in the state showing which communities are most at risk from pollution. See how each Patch town ranks using the interactive map below.

How at risk are Napa residents from pollution compared to other cities in the state?  According to the state officials, the answer is not so good for local residents.

Based on new state figures released this week, Napa's two main zip codes, 94559 and 94558, are both in the 31 to 35 percentile of California zip codes in terms of being at potential for health risks stemming from pollution of all sorts.

A lower percentile ranking means the potential threat is worse.

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See a map of the data for every town in the state here

The figures come from a new state report issued by the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) that compiles health risks based on 11 types of pollution and factors in seven categories of population and demographic factors, including poverty and education levels.

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The purpose of the report is to identify communities that are eligible for grants from the state's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, according to Sam Delson, an OEHHA spokesman. The law governing that fund mandates certain percentages be spent on disadvantaged communities, making it necessary to include economic factors in the state report.

Unfortunately for Napa, only cities that rank in the bottom 10 percent will qualify.

The state has a map of those communities that are eligible on the report website.

The map above shows scores from each of those categories as well as overall rankings for every zip code in California with a Patch publication. Simply click on any town to see the full report card for each zip code.

You can see a similar map showing every zip code in the state here, and see more details of the report on the state's website.

 Napa's two zip codes fare poorly on the metrics having to do with ground water pollution threats (90.72 percentile for 94558; 91.27 for 94559) and solid waste pollution threat (98.1 percentile for 94558; 62.07 percentile for 94559) while ranking in the 69.26 percentile for pesticides in 94558 and 76.85 percentile in 94559.

To get the detailed rankings for St. Helena, Calistoga and Yountville, click on the towns on the interactive map to bring up each of those zip codes.

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