City report · Madhya Pradesh, India
Damoh Air quality today
Air quality in Damoh currently reads AQI 96 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 96
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 33.0
- tree cover
- 22.0%
- trees in this area
- 68.9K
- more trees needed
- 25.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Madiya Pangarha, Damoh, Madhya Pradesh 470661, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 27, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Damoh · AQI 96 (Moderate)
Damoh's tree count comes to 68,908 trees across 12.53 km² of land, 8 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 25,057 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Damoh today: AQI 96, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Shrivastav Colony, Damoh - MPPCB, 1.8 km away
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
33.0
PM10
66.4
NO₂
7.7
O₃
—
SO₂
56.1
CO
0.5
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Damoh's daily AQI at 138 on average, from 115 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 174 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 Damoh: Below target
22.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.53 km² of land.
Trees in this area
68,908
Target trees
93,965
More trees needed
25,057
CO₂ if planted / yr
551.3 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Damoh lost?
There was almost no forest around Damoh 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 February 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 186 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 231 ha
- Overall change
- +45 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Damoh grew from about 186 hectares to 231 hectares, a net gain of about 45 hectares (+24%). New forest grew on about 46 hectares, while under 1 hectare was 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 Damoh right now?
The latest reading for Damoh shows an AQI of 96 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 21:00 local time by the Shrivastav Colony, Damoh - MPPCB ground monitoring station, 1.8 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Damoh today?
At AQI 96 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Damoh been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Damoh's daily AQI at 138 on average, from 115 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 174 on Nov 8. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Damoh'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 Damoh lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Damoh 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 Damoh grew from about 186 hectares to 231 hectares, a net gain of about 45 hectares (+24%). New forest grew on about 46 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Damoh?
Damoh has an estimated 68,908 trees across the 12.53 km² of land measured — 22.0% tree cover, 8 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Damoh need?
Damoh needs roughly 25,057 more trees to close a 8-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 551.3 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Damoh's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Madiya Pangarha, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Madiya Pangarha; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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