City report · Madhya Pradesh, India
Chhindwāra Air quality today
Air quality in Chhindwāra currently reads AQI 171 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 171
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 88.3
- tree cover
- 22.5%
- trees in this area
- 70.7K
- more trees needed
- 55.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Railway Colony, Rautha Wada, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh 480001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 27, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Chhindwāra · AQI 171 (Unhealthy)
Chhindwāra's tree count comes to 70,686 trees across 12.57 km², 18 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 54,978 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Chhindwāra today: AQI 171, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 02:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 165 km, e.g. Nagpur and Jabalpur
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
88.3
PM10
55.1
NO₂
11.9
O₃
57.0
SO₂
5.7
CO
250.0
- 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 Chhindwāra's daily AQI at 96 on average, from 75 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 158 on Nov 8.
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 Chhindwāra: Critically low
22.5% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
70,686
Target trees
125,664
More trees needed
54,978
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,210 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Chhindwāra lost?
There was almost no forest around Chhindwāra 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 April 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 747 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 874 ha
- Overall change
- +127 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Chhindwāra grew from about 747 hectares to 874 hectares, a net gain of about 127 hectares (+17%). New forest grew on about 134 hectares, while 7 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 Chhindwāra right now?
The latest reading for Chhindwāra shows an AQI of 171 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 02:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 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 Chhindwāra today?
At AQI 171 (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 Chhindwāra been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Chhindwāra's daily AQI at 96 on average, from 75 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 158 on Nov 8. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Chhindwāra'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 Chhindwāra lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Chhindwāra 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Chhindwāra grew from about 747 hectares to 874 hectares, a net gain of about 127 hectares (+17%). New forest grew on about 134 hectares, while 7 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Chhindwāra?
Chhindwāra has an estimated 70,686 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 22.5% tree cover, 18 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Chhindwāra need?
Chhindwāra needs roughly 54,978 more trees to close a 18-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,210 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Chhindwāra'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 Railway Colony; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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