Philipsburg
2 km around Philipsburg
Air quality now
AQI 12
29.4%
tree cover
1.3K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
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Sint Maarten air quality today The AQI right now, city by city
Airleaf measures 1 city in Sint Maarten. Philipsburg reads AQI 12 right now.
- cities measured
- 1
- national forest cover
- 8.8%
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
Sint Maarten
Air quality in Philipsburg right now
Good
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sint Maarten lost?
Since 2001, Sint Maarten has lost about 10 hectares of forest (about 13 football pitches): 1.9% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (82%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 10 haabout 13 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 1.9%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 8 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 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
The worst year was 2013, when about 2 hectares of forest were lost.
What is causing deforestation in Sint Maarten?
- Towns and roadscleared for good81% · 8 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown19% · 2 ha
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
Sint Maarten as a whole
8.8% of Sint Maarten was forested as of 2024, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 720K trees across 720 hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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Air quality in Sint Maarten: your questions answered
What is the air quality in Sint Maarten today?
Airleaf measures 1 city in Sint Maarten. Philipsburg reads AQI 12 right now.
How much forest has Sint Maarten lost since 2001?
About 10 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. 8 ha of it was cleared for good, for farms, mines or towns.
How does Airleaf measure air quality in Sint Maarten?
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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