City report · Punjab, India
Firozpur Air quality today
Air quality in Firozpur currently reads AQI 541 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 541
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 384.9
- tree cover
- 35.5%
- trees in this area
- 112K
- more trees needed
- 29.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Ferozepur Cantt, Punjab, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 8, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Firozpur · AQI 541 (Hazardous)
Firozpur's tree count comes to 111,527 trees across 12.57 km², 10 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 29,845 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Firozpur today: AQI 541, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 65 km, e.g. Kasur and Raja Jang
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
384.9
PM10
221.7
NO₂
70.3
O₃
48.0
SO₂
21.7
CO
1197.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Firozpur's daily AQI at 196 on average, from 148 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 270 on Nov 4.
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 Firozpur: Below target
35.5% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
111,527
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
29,845
CO₂ if planted / yr
656.6 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Firozpur lost?
There was very little forest around Firozpur in 2000, about 73 hectares, and about 13 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 September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
The worst year was 2012, when about 2 hectares 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 | 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 2 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 | 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2012 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 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 Firozpur?
- Storms, floods and other natural causescan grow back22% · 3 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good22% · 3 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown57% · 8 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Firozpur right now?
The latest reading for Firozpur shows an AQI of 541 (Hazardous), observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Firozpur today?
At AQI 541 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Firozpur been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Firozpur's daily AQI at 196 on average, from 148 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 270 on Nov 4. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Firozpur'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 Firozpur lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Firozpur in 2000, about 73 hectares, and about 13 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 Firozpur?
Firozpur has an estimated 111,527 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 35.5% tree cover, 10 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Firozpur need?
Firozpur needs roughly 29,845 more trees to close a 10-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 656.6 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Firozpur'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 Ferozepur Cantt; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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