City report · Maharashtra, India
Barshi Air quality today
Air quality in Barshi currently reads AQI 154 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 154
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 66.0
- tree cover
- 8.5%
- trees in this area
- 26.3K
- more trees needed
- 97.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Mangire Mala, Barshi, Maharashtra, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 30, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Barshi · AQI 154 (Unhealthy)
Barshi's tree count comes to 26,303 trees across 12.38 km² of land, 32 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 97,476 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Barshi today: AQI 154, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 21:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 85 km, e.g. Solapur and Beed
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
66.0
PM10
38.3
NO₂
7.0
O₃
77.0
SO₂
7.5
CO
304.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Barshi's daily AQI at 85 on average, from 67 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 120 on Nov 7.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
Where Barshi stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Barshi: Critically low
8.5% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.38 km² of land.
Trees in this area
26,303
Target trees
123,779
More trees needed
97,476
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,144 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Barshi lost?
There was almost no forest around Barshi in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
2017: satellite photo from January 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
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. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Barshi right now?
The latest reading for Barshi shows an AQI of 154 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 21:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Barshi today?
At AQI 154 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Barshi been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Barshi's daily AQI at 85 on average, from 67 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 120 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Barshi's AQI the same as India's AQI (CPCB)?
No. Airleaf shows the US EPA Air Quality Index (AQI), the scale used by IQAir and most air-quality apps. India's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) publishes the National Air Quality Index on its own scale: 0–50 good, 51–100 satisfactory, 101–200 moderate, 201–300 poor, 301–400 very poor and 401–500 severe. The two scales don't line up. At moderate fine-particle levels the US scale reads higher: 55 µg/m³ of PM2.5 is 149 on the US AQI but about 92, "satisfactory", on India's. In heavy smog India's reads higher: 100 µg/m³ is 182 on the US AQI and about 232, "poor", on India's. CPCB also averages particles over 24 hours, so its figure moves more slowly than an hourly reading.
How much forest has the area around Barshi lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Barshi in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
What is the tree count in Barshi?
Barshi has an estimated 26,303 trees across the 12.38 km² of land measured — 8.5% tree cover, 32 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Barshi need?
Barshi needs roughly 97,476 more trees to close a 32-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,144 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Barshi'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 Mangire Mala; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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