City report · Chhattisgarh, India
Bilāspur Air quality today
Air quality in Bilāspur currently reads AQI 164 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 164
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 73.5
- tree cover
- 27.3%
- trees in this area
- 84.0K
- more trees needed
- 39.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Telipara, Chhattisgarh, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bilāspur · AQI 164 (Unhealthy)
Bilāspur's tree count comes to 84,050 trees across 12.32 km² of land, 13 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 39,100 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bilāspur today: AQI 164, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:45 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Mangala, Bilaspur - CECB, 2.1 km away
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
73.5
PM10
117.2
NO₂
35.5
O₃
—
SO₂
38.9
CO
0.9
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)
- 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 Bilāspur's daily AQI at 161 on average, from 139 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 188 on Nov 6.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
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Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Bilāspur: Below target
27.3% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.32 km² of land.
Trees in this area
84,050
Target trees
123,150
More trees needed
39,100
CO₂ if planted / yr
860.2 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bilāspur lost?
There was very little forest around Bilāspur in 2000, about 13 hectares, and about 5 hectares of it has been lost 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 March 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
The worst year was 2006, when about 1 hectare of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Bilāspur?
- Towns and roadscleared for good37% · 2 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good12% · under 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown50% · 2 ha
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
- 775 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,090 ha
- Overall change
- +319 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Bilāspur grew from about 775 hectares to 1,090 hectares, a net gain of about 319 hectares (+41%). New forest grew on about 336 hectares, while 17 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 Bilāspur right now?
The latest reading for Bilāspur shows an AQI of 164 (Unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 20:45 local time by the Mangala, Bilaspur - CECB ground monitoring station, 2.1 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Bilāspur today?
At AQI 164 (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 Bilāspur been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bilāspur's daily AQI at 161 on average, from 139 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 188 on Nov 6. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Bilāspur'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 Bilāspur lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Bilāspur in 2000, about 13 hectares, and about 5 hectares of it has been lost since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Bilāspur grew from about 775 hectares to 1,090 hectares, a net gain of about 319 hectares (+41%). New forest grew on about 336 hectares, while 17 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Bilāspur?
Bilāspur has an estimated 84,050 trees across the 12.32 km² of land measured — 27.3% tree cover, 13 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bilāspur need?
Bilāspur needs roughly 39,100 more trees to close a 13-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 860.2 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bilāspur's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Telipara, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Telipara; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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