City report · Minas Gerais, Brazil
Araxá Air quality today
Air quality in Araxá currently reads AQI 6 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 6
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 1.0
- tree cover
- 16.2%
- trees in this area
- 50.9K
- more trees needed
- 43.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Centro, Araxá - MG, Brazil (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Araxá · AQI 6 (Good)
Araxá's tree count comes to 50,894 trees across 12.57 km², 14 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 43,354 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Araxá today: AQI 6, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 07:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Ribeirão Preto and Sertãozinho
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
1.0
PM10
2.0
NO₂
3.2
O₃
43.0
SO₂
0.9
CO
115.0
- 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 Araxá's daily AQI at 22 on average, from 8 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 63 on Nov 5.
Where Araxá stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Araxá: Critically low
16.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
50,894
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
43,354
CO₂ if planted / yr
953.8 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Araxá lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Araxá has lost about 1,230 hectares of forest (about 1,700 football pitches): 19% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (72%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for mining and energy.
2017: satellite photo from September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km west of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 1,230 haabout 1,700 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 19%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 888 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss is slowing down: about 24 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 51 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2002, when about 119 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 34 ha | 7 ha | 41 ha |
| 2002 | 62 ha | 57 ha | 119 ha |
| 2003 | 29 ha | 10 ha | 40 ha |
| 2004 | 72 ha | 41 ha | 112 ha |
| 2005 | 53 ha | 11 ha | 64 ha |
| 2006 | 23 ha | 20 ha | 44 ha |
| 2007 | 30 ha | 23 ha | 53 ha |
| 2008 | 28 ha | 15 ha | 43 ha |
| 2009 | 27 ha | 10 ha | 38 ha |
| 2010 | 104 ha | 12 ha | 116 ha |
| 2011 | 24 ha | 3 ha | 27 ha |
| 2012 | 70 ha | 11 ha | 80 ha |
| 2013 | 23 ha | under 1 ha | 23 ha |
| 2014 | 36 ha | under 1 ha | 36 ha |
| 2015 | 14 ha | 3 ha | 17 ha |
| 2016 | 59 ha | 27 ha | 86 ha |
| 2017 | 52 ha | 14 ha | 65 ha |
| 2018 | 42 ha | 18 ha | 60 ha |
| 2019 | 17 ha | 3 ha | 20 ha |
| 2020 | 15 ha | 8 ha | 23 ha |
| 2021 | 23 ha | 4 ha | 27 ha |
| 2022 | 10 ha | 7 ha | 17 ha |
| 2023 | 12 ha | 11 ha | 24 ha |
| 2024 | 8 ha | 24 ha | 31 ha |
| 2025 | 22 ha | 1 ha | 23 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Araxá?
- Mining and energycleared for good42% · 515 ha
- Loggingcan grow back27% · 331 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good24% · 295 ha
Also: towns and roads, 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
- 6,580 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 6,330 ha
- Overall change
- −248 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Araxá shrank from about 6,580 hectares to 6,330 hectares, a net loss of about 248 hectares (−3.8%). New forest grew on about 465 hectares, but 713 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 Araxá right now?
The latest reading for Araxá shows an AQI of 6 (Good), observed Nov 11, 07:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Araxá today?
At AQI 6 (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 Araxá been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Araxá's daily AQI at 22 on average, from 8 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 63 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Araxá lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Araxá has lost about 1,230 hectares of forest (about 1,700 football pitches): 19% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (72%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for mining and energy. Forest loss is slowing down: about 24 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 Araxá shrank from about 6,580 hectares to 6,330 hectares, a net loss of about 248 hectares (−3.8%). New forest grew on about 465 hectares, but 713 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Araxá?
Araxá has an estimated 50,894 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 16.2% tree cover, 14 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Araxá need?
Araxá needs roughly 43,354 more trees to close a 14-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 953.8 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Araxá'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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