City report · Paraná, Brazil
Apucarana Air quality today
Air quality in Apucarana currently reads AQI 44 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 44
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 7.9
- tree cover
- 24.1%
- trees in this area
- 75.6K
- more trees needed
- 18.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Centro, Apucarana - PR, Brazil (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 20, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Apucarana · AQI 44 (Good)
Apucarana's tree count comes to 75,637 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 6 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 18,517 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Apucarana today: AQI 44, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
7.9
PM10
8.1
NO₂
1.6
O₃
90.0
SO₂
1.5
CO
190.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Apucarana's daily AQI at 64 on average, from 31 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 166 on Nov 6.
Where Apucarana stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Apucarana: Below target
24.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
75,637
Target trees
94,154
More trees needed
18,517
CO₂ if planted / yr
407.4 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Apucarana lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Apucarana has lost about 1,090 hectares of forest (about 1,500 football pitches): 13% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (70%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2017: satellite photo from June 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km west of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 1,090 haabout 1,500 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 13%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 766 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss is slowing down: about 31 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 51 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2001, when about 185 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 148 ha | 37 ha | 185 ha |
| 2002 | 9 ha | 9 ha | 18 ha |
| 2003 | 39 ha | 6 ha | 45 ha |
| 2004 | 24 ha | 9 ha | 33 ha |
| 2005 | 27 ha | 9 ha | 36 ha |
| 2006 | 10 ha | 4 ha | 14 ha |
| 2007 | 22 ha | 4 ha | 26 ha |
| 2008 | 40 ha | 9 ha | 49 ha |
| 2009 | 7 ha | 5 ha | 11 ha |
| 2010 | 30 ha | 7 ha | 37 ha |
| 2011 | 18 ha | 6 ha | 24 ha |
| 2012 | 22 ha | 7 ha | 29 ha |
| 2013 | 41 ha | 20 ha | 61 ha |
| 2014 | 71 ha | 13 ha | 84 ha |
| 2015 | 24 ha | 5 ha | 29 ha |
| 2016 | 20 ha | 17 ha | 37 ha |
| 2017 | 41 ha | 20 ha | 61 ha |
| 2018 | 26 ha | 32 ha | 57 ha |
| 2019 | 35 ha | 23 ha | 57 ha |
| 2020 | 24 ha | 19 ha | 43 ha |
| 2021 | 32 ha | 23 ha | 54 ha |
| 2022 | 24 ha | 22 ha | 46 ha |
| 2023 | 19 ha | 13 ha | 32 ha |
| 2024 | 10 ha | 5 ha | 16 ha |
| 2025 | 4 ha | 3 ha | 6 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Apucarana?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good68% · 736 ha
- Loggingcan grow back29% · 317 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good2.8% · 30 ha
Also: unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 8,440 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 8,110 ha
- Overall change
- −329 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Apucarana shrank from about 8,440 hectares to 8,110 hectares, a net loss of about 329 hectares (−3.9%). New forest grew on about 850 hectares, but 1,180 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
These figures cover everything within 10 km of the city center, a wider area than the report above, because forest is usually lost at a city's edges.
Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA, Global Forest Change (GFC-2025-v1.13); causes: WRI/Google DeepMind drivers of forest loss; both CC BY 4.0, summed by Airleaf for each area. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Apucarana right now?
The latest reading for Apucarana shows an AQI of 44 (Good), observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Apucarana today?
At AQI 44 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Apucarana been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Apucarana's daily AQI at 64 on average, from 31 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 166 on Nov 6. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Apucarana lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Apucarana has lost about 1,090 hectares of forest (about 1,500 football pitches): 13% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (70%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Forest loss is slowing down: about 31 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 51 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Apucarana shrank from about 8,440 hectares to 8,110 hectares, a net loss of about 329 hectares (−3.9%). New forest grew on about 850 hectares, but 1,180 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Apucarana?
Apucarana has an estimated 75,637 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 24.1% tree cover, 6 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Apucarana need?
Apucarana needs roughly 18,517 more trees to close a 6-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 407.4 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Apucarana's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality comes from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where one reports nearby, and otherwise, as here, from the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, which may differ from street-level monitors. Tree cover is measured from Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search satellite imagery at 10 m detail across a 2 km radius around Centro; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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