City report · Caraga, Philippines
Butuan Air quality today
Air quality in Butuan currently reads AQI 12 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 12
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 2.5
- tree cover
- 42.3%
- trees in this area
- 124K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Sikatuna Pob. (Bgy. 10), Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, Philippines (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 12, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Butuan · AQI 12 (Good)
Butuan's tree count comes to 124,252 trees across 11.75 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Butuan today: AQI 12, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Panabo and Davao City
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
2.5
PM10
4.2
NO₂
4.7
O₃
18.0
SO₂
1.2
CO
148.0
- 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 Butuan's daily AQI at 17 on average, from 9 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 43 on Nov 5.
Where Butuan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Butuan: Healthy tree cover
42.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.75 km² of land.
Trees in this area
124,252
Target trees
124,252
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Butuan lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Butuan has lost about 790 hectares of forest (about 1,100 football pitches): 5.2% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (87%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2017: satellite photo from May 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km southwest of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 790 haabout 1,100 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 5.2%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 689 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2012, when about 59 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 43 ha | 1 ha | 44 ha |
| 2002 | 15 ha | 2 ha | 17 ha |
| 2003 | 9 ha | 2 ha | 10 ha |
| 2004 | 43 ha | 2 ha | 45 ha |
| 2005 | 17 ha | 1 ha | 18 ha |
| 2006 | 20 ha | 8 ha | 27 ha |
| 2007 | 8 ha | 3 ha | 10 ha |
| 2008 | 12 ha | 4 ha | 16 ha |
| 2009 | 35 ha | 6 ha | 41 ha |
| 2010 | 26 ha | 2 ha | 28 ha |
| 2011 | 22 ha | 2 ha | 23 ha |
| 2012 | 57 ha | 2 ha | 59 ha |
| 2013 | 12 ha | under 1 ha | 13 ha |
| 2014 | 36 ha | 6 ha | 41 ha |
| 2015 | 27 ha | 6 ha | 33 ha |
| 2016 | 36 ha | 6 ha | 42 ha |
| 2017 | 46 ha | 13 ha | 59 ha |
| 2018 | 31 ha | 2 ha | 33 ha |
| 2019 | 47 ha | 2 ha | 49 ha |
| 2020 | 17 ha | 4 ha | 21 ha |
| 2021 | 33 ha | 11 ha | 44 ha |
| 2022 | 14 ha | 2 ha | 17 ha |
| 2023 | 19 ha | under 1 ha | 19 ha |
| 2024 | 36 ha | 8 ha | 44 ha |
| 2025 | 31 ha | 7 ha | 38 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Butuan?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good73% · 577 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good14% · 113 ha
- Shifting farmingcan grow back11% · 87 ha
Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, 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
- 15,300 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 15,400 ha
- Overall change
- +102 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Butuan stayed about the same size, at about 15,400 hectares: new forest grew on about 527 hectares, and about 425 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 Butuan right now?
The latest reading for Butuan shows an AQI of 12 (Good), observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Butuan today?
At AQI 12 (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 Butuan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Butuan's daily AQI at 17 on average, from 9 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 43 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 Butuan lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Butuan has lost about 790 hectares of forest (about 1,100 football pitches): 5.2% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (87%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Butuan stayed about the same size, at about 15,400 hectares: new forest grew on about 527 hectares, and about 425 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Butuan?
Butuan has an estimated 124,252 trees across the 11.75 km² of land measured — 42.3% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Butuan need?
Butuan has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Butuan'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 Sikatuna Pob. (Bgy. 10); the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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