Kingstown
2 km around Kingstown
Air quality now
AQI 25
62.5%
tree cover
Healthy tree cover
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Airleaf measures 1 city in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Kingstown reads AQI 25 right now.
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Deforestation · 2001–2025
Since 2001, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has lost about 497 hectares of forest (about 700 football pitches): 1.8% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (55%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
Hectares of forest lost each year
| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 ha | 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2002 | 5 ha | 2 ha | 7 ha |
| 2003 | 7 ha | 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2004 | 16 ha | 3 ha | 19 ha |
| 2005 | 8 ha | 8 ha | 16 ha |
| 2006 | 9 ha | 1 ha | 10 ha |
| 2007 | 15 ha | 7 ha | 22 ha |
| 2008 | 29 ha | 7 ha | 36 ha |
| 2009 | 14 ha | 14 ha | 28 ha |
| 2010 | 38 ha | 20 ha | 59 ha |
| 2011 | 14 ha | 13 ha | 27 ha |
| 2012 | 12 ha | 12 ha | 24 ha |
| 2013 | 7 ha | 6 ha | 13 ha |
| 2014 | 6 ha | 5 ha | 10 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2016 | 8 ha | 8 ha | 16 ha |
| 2017 | 11 ha | 18 ha | 30 ha |
| 2018 | 16 ha | 1 ha | 17 ha |
| 2019 | 6 ha | 4 ha | 10 ha |
| 2020 | 4 ha | 3 ha | 7 ha |
| 2021 | 4 ha | 9 ha | 13 ha |
| 2022 | 6 ha | 56 ha | 62 ha |
| 2023 | 7 ha | 3 ha | 10 ha |
| 2024 | 24 ha | 18 ha | 41 ha |
| 2025 | 3 ha | 2 ha | 5 ha |
The worst year was 2022, when about 62 hectares of forest were lost.
Also: 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
73.4% of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was forested as of 2024, against a 30% benchmark. That already clears the benchmark — the city reports above show where cover is still thin locally. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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Airleaf measures 1 city in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Kingstown reads AQI 25 right now.
About 497 ha from 2001 to 2025, 2% of the forest it had in 2000, from the University of Maryland's yearly satellite maps of forest loss. 273 ha of it was cleared for good, for farms, mines or towns.
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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