City report · Madhya Pradesh, India
Dewas Air quality today
Air quality in Dewas currently reads AQI 145 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 145
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 53.5
- tree cover
- 24.5%
- trees in this area
- 76.3K
- more trees needed
- 32.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Old Town, Gomti Nagar, Dewas, Madhya Pradesh 455001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Dewas · AQI 145 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Dewas's tree count comes to 76,276 trees across 12.46 km² of land, 10 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 32,690 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Dewas today: AQI 145, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 06:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 45 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 45 km, e.g. Indore and Ujjain
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
53.5
PM10
45.5
NO₂
19.8
O₃
53.0
SO₂
10.7
CO
378.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dewas's daily AQI at 101 on average, from 84 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 161 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 Dewas: Below target
24.5% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.46 km² of land.
Trees in this area
76,276
Target trees
108,966
More trees needed
32,690
CO₂ if planted / yr
719.2 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Dewas lost?
There was very little forest around Dewas in 2000, about 6 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost 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 March 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
The worst year was 2009, when about 1 hectare of forest were lost.
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 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 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 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 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 |
What is causing deforestation around Dewas?
- Towns and roadscleared for good50% · 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown42% · 1 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
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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Questions about Dewas
What is the air quality (AQI) in Dewas right now?
The latest reading for Dewas shows an AQI of 145 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 06:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 45 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Dewas today?
At AQI 145 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Dewas been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dewas's daily AQI at 101 on average, from 84 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 8. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Dewas'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 Dewas lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Dewas in 2000, about 6 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost 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 Dewas?
Dewas has an estimated 76,276 trees across the 12.46 km² of land measured — 24.5% tree cover, 10 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Dewas need?
Dewas needs roughly 32,690 more trees to close a 10-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 719.2 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Dewas'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 Old Town; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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