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Grozny Air quality today
Air quality in Grozny currently reads AQI 80 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 80
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 25.1
- tree cover
- 11.9%
- trees in this area
- 37.3K
- more trees needed
- 56.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Grozny, Chechnya, Russia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 22, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Grozny · AQI 80 (Moderate)
Grozny's tree count comes to 37,348 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 18 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 56,806 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Grozny today: AQI 80, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Tbilisi and Rustavi
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
25.1
PM10
10.9
NO₂
9.7
O₃
37.0
SO₂
2.2
CO
202.0
- 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 Grozny's daily AQI at 36 on average, from 11 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 84 on Nov 5.
Where Grozny stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Grozny: Critically low
11.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
37,348
Target trees
94,154
More trees needed
56,806
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,250 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Grozny lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Grozny has lost about 71 hectares of forest (about 100 football pitches): 1.4% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (71%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from July 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 71 haabout 100 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 1.4%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 50 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2001, when about 9 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 8 ha | under 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | 3 ha | 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | 5 ha | 6 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | 3 ha | 3 ha |
| 2009 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2010 | 1 ha | 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | 1 ha | 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2013 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2014 | 7 ha | 2 ha | 9 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | 2 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 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2022 | 7 ha | under 1 ha | 7 ha |
| 2023 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2024 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2025 | 3 ha | 3 ha | 6 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Grozny?
- Towns and roadscleared for good37% · 26 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good20% · 14 ha
- Mining and energycleared for good14% · 10 ha
Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, logging, wildfires, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 3,920 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 3,880 ha
- Overall change
- −40 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Grozny stayed about the same size, at about 3,880 hectares: new forest grew on about 81 hectares, and about 121 hectares were 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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- Air quality
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- Vladikavkaz88.0 km
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- Air quality
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- Makhachkala151.6 km
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- Air quality
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- Nalchik168.5 km
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- Air quality
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- Tbilisi193.3 km
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Grozny right now?
The latest reading for Grozny shows an AQI of 80 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Grozny today?
At AQI 80 (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 Grozny been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Grozny's daily AQI at 36 on average, from 11 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 84 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Grozny lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Grozny has lost about 71 hectares of forest (about 100 football pitches): 1.4% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (71%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Grozny stayed about the same size, at about 3,880 hectares: new forest grew on about 81 hectares, and about 121 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Grozny?
Grozny has an estimated 37,348 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 11.9% tree cover, 18 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Grozny need?
Grozny needs roughly 56,806 more trees to close a 18-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,250 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Grozny'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 Grozny; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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