The American Lung Association has put out its 2022 air quality report for counties across the country.

And Ohio County is one of the few in West Virginia to receive a grade.

According to the report, Ohio County received a "B" for its air quality grade. This is a weighted score compiled of the ozone levels and pollution particles in the area.

"A ‘B’ is a composite score between a 0.3 and a 0.9,” said Dr. Robert Herron, WVU Medicine thoracic surgeon. “It is not a bad score but obviously it is not an ‘A.’ ”

Within the last 6 years, Ohio County’s air quality has advanced from not passing all factors. The air quality is made up of different pollutants we see every day.

“Things like particularly car exhausts, powerplant emissions can cause that it is really nonspecific," Herron said.

And as bad air quality can be harmful to our bodies, what's in Ohio County's air might not be as severe for you as you think.

"The people it will mainly affect is those with underlying disorders, COPD, asthma, allergies,” Herron said. “Otherwise, if patients aren't predisposed to those things, it shouldn’t really cause much difficulty."

To get the grade up to an ‘A’ and help save our lungs, Herron suggests a few tactics.

"On a personal level, just continue to take good care of themselves, quit smoking, things as a community we can do, things like cut down on ozone emissions," Herron said.

So, if you can bike, walk or take public transit, that can all decrease ozone emissions.