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Cockburn Town Air quality today
Air quality in Cockburn Town currently reads AQI 18 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 18
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.4
- tree cover
- 11.0%
- trees in this area
- 18.2K
- more trees needed
- 31.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Cockburn Town TKCA 1ZZ, Turks and Caicos Islands (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 4, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Cockburn Town · AQI 18 (Good)
Cockburn Town's tree count comes to 18,177 trees across 6.61 km² of land, 19 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 31,397 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Cockburn Town today: AQI 18, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
3.4
PM10
5.6
NO₂
0.2
O₃
59.0
SO₂
0.4
CO
105.0
- 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 Cockburn Town's daily AQI at 24 on average, from 15 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 48 on Nov 7.
Where Cockburn Town stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Cockburn Town: Critically low
11.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 6.61 km² of land.
Trees in this area
18,177
Target trees
49,574
More trees needed
31,397
CO₂ if planted / yr
690.7 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Cockburn Town lost?
There was almost no forest around Cockburn Town 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.
2018: satellite photo from February 2018 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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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Cockburn Town right now?
The latest reading for Cockburn Town shows an AQI of 18 (Good), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Cockburn Town today?
At AQI 18 (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 Cockburn Town been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Cockburn Town's daily AQI at 24 on average, from 15 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 48 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Cockburn Town lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Cockburn Town 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 Cockburn Town?
Cockburn Town has an estimated 18,177 trees across the 6.61 km² of land measured — 11.0% tree cover, 19 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Cockburn Town need?
Cockburn Town needs roughly 31,397 more trees to close a 19-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 690.7 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Cockburn Town'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 Cockburn Town TKCA 1ZZ; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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