Bridgetown
2 km around Bridgetown
Air quality now
AQI 23
13.2%
tree cover
35.6K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
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Barbados air quality today The AQI right now, city by city
Airleaf measures 1 city in Barbados. Bridgetown reads AQI 23 right now.
- cities measured
- 1
- national forest cover
- 14.6%
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
Barbados
Air quality in Bridgetown right now
Good
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Barbados lost?
Since 2001, Barbados has lost about 442 hectares of forest (about 620 football pitches): 8.4% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (95%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 442 haabout 620 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 8.4%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 418 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 ha | 2 ha | 12 ha |
| 2002 | 10 ha | 2 ha | 12 ha |
| 2003 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2004 | 8 ha | under 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2005 | 9 ha | under 1 ha | 10 ha |
| 2006 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2007 | 30 ha | 2 ha | 32 ha |
| 2008 | 13 ha | 1 ha | 14 ha |
| 2009 | 11 ha | 2 ha | 13 ha |
| 2010 | 16 ha | 1 ha | 18 ha |
| 2011 | 18 ha | under 1 ha | 18 ha |
| 2012 | 112 ha | 5 ha | 117 ha |
| 2013 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2014 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2015 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2016 | 12 ha | under 1 ha | 13 ha |
| 2017 | 15 ha | under 1 ha | 16 ha |
| 2018 | 22 ha | under 1 ha | 23 ha |
| 2019 | 54 ha | under 1 ha | 54 ha |
| 2020 | 22 ha | under 1 ha | 22 ha |
| 2021 | 17 ha | under 1 ha | 18 ha |
| 2022 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2023 | 6 ha | under 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2024 | 9 ha | under 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2025 | 3 ha | 4 ha | 7 ha |
The worst year was 2012, when about 117 hectares of forest were lost.
What is causing deforestation in Barbados?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good81% · 359 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good13% · 57 ha
- Storms, floods and other natural causescan grow back1.3% · 6 ha
Also: mining and energy, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
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. How it's measured
Barbados as a whole
14.6% of Barbados was forested as of 2024, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 6.6M trees across 6.6K hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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Air quality in Barbados: your questions answered
What is the air quality in Barbados today?
Airleaf measures 1 city in Barbados. Bridgetown reads AQI 23 right now.
How much forest has Barbados lost since 2001?
About 442 ha from 2001 to 2025, 8% of the forest it had in 2000, from the University of Maryland's yearly satellite maps of forest loss. 418 ha of it was cleared for good, for farms, mines or towns.
How does Airleaf measure air quality in Barbados?
Each city's reading is the US EPA air quality index, from ground monitoring stations where one has reported recently nearby, and from the CAMS atmospheric model elsewhere; each city's report says which. Tree cover is measured over the same 2 km radius in every city, so the cities compare like for like.
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