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Itapipoca Air quality today
Air quality in Itapipoca currently reads AQI 22 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 22
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 4.2
- tree cover
- 20.5%
- trees in this area
- 64.2K
- more trees needed
- 29.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Centro, Itapipoca - CE, Brazil (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 31, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Itapipoca · AQI 22 (Good)
Itapipoca's tree count comes to 64,209 trees across 12.53 km² of land, 10 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 29,756 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Itapipoca today: AQI 22, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
4.2
PM10
5.8
NO₂
0.6
O₃
68.0
SO₂
0.7
CO
133.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Itapipoca's daily AQI at 40 on average, from 30 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 53 on Nov 10.
Where Itapipoca stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Itapipoca: Below target
20.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.53 km² of land.
Trees in this area
64,209
Target trees
93,965
More trees needed
29,756
CO₂ if planted / yr
654.6 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Itapipoca lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Itapipoca has lost about 1,180 hectares of forest (about 1,600 football pitches): 12% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (over 99%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2017: satellite photo from September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 3 km northwest of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 1,180 haabout 1,600 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 12%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 1,170 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss is slowing down: about 21 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 51 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2012, when about 181 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 18 ha | under 1 ha | 18 ha |
| 2002 | 63 ha | under 1 ha | 63 ha |
| 2003 | 32 ha | under 1 ha | 32 ha |
| 2004 | 40 ha | under 1 ha | 41 ha |
| 2005 | 8 ha | under 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2006 | 59 ha | under 1 ha | 59 ha |
| 2007 | 45 ha | under 1 ha | 45 ha |
| 2008 | 29 ha | under 1 ha | 29 ha |
| 2009 | 21 ha | under 1 ha | 21 ha |
| 2010 | 42 ha | under 1 ha | 42 ha |
| 2011 | 11 ha | under 1 ha | 11 ha |
| 2012 | 181 ha | under 1 ha | 181 ha |
| 2013 | 59 ha | under 1 ha | 59 ha |
| 2014 | 173 ha | under 1 ha | 173 ha |
| 2015 | 31 ha | under 1 ha | 32 ha |
| 2016 | 92 ha | under 1 ha | 92 ha |
| 2017 | 68 ha | 3 ha | 71 ha |
| 2018 | 45 ha | under 1 ha | 45 ha |
| 2019 | 16 ha | under 1 ha | 16 ha |
| 2020 | 32 ha | under 1 ha | 32 ha |
| 2021 | 20 ha | under 1 ha | 20 ha |
| 2022 | 23 ha | under 1 ha | 23 ha |
| 2023 | 7 ha | under 1 ha | 7 ha |
| 2024 | 28 ha | under 1 ha | 28 ha |
| 2025 | 27 ha | under 1 ha | 27 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Itapipoca?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good87% · 1,020 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good12% · 145 ha
Also: mining and energy, storms, floods and other natural causes, 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
- 5,340 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 5,280 ha
- Overall change
- −61 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Itapipoca stayed about the same size, at about 5,280 hectares: new forest grew on about 105 hectares, and about 166 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Itapipoca right now?
The latest reading for Itapipoca shows an AQI of 22 (Good), observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Itapipoca today?
At AQI 22 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Itapipoca been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Itapipoca's daily AQI at 40 on average, from 30 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 53 on Nov 10. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Itapipoca lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Itapipoca has lost about 1,180 hectares of forest (about 1,600 football pitches): 12% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (over 99%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Forest loss is slowing down: about 21 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 51 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Itapipoca stayed about the same size, at about 5,280 hectares: new forest grew on about 105 hectares, and about 166 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Itapipoca?
Itapipoca has an estimated 64,209 trees across the 12.53 km² of land measured — 20.5% tree cover, 10 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Itapipoca need?
Itapipoca needs roughly 29,756 more trees to close a 10-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 654.6 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Itapipoca'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 Centro; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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