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Lafia Air quality today
Air quality in Lafia currently reads AQI 80 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 80
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 24.8
- tree cover
- 6.4%
- trees in this area
- 20.1K
- more trees needed
- 74.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Lafia 950101, Nasarawa, Nigeria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 20, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Lafia · AQI 80 (Moderate)
Lafia's tree count comes to 20,106 trees across 12.57 km², 24 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 74,142 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Lafia today: AQI 80, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 225 km, e.g. Abuja and Nsukka
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
24.8
PM10
36.7
NO₂
1.1
O₃
110.0
SO₂
1.1
CO
284.0
- 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 Lafia's daily AQI at 103 on average, from 84 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 155 on Nov 5.
Where Lafia stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Lafia: Critically low
6.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
20,106
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
74,142
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,631 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Lafia lost?
There was almost no forest around Lafia 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 January 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 231 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 159 ha
- Overall change
- −72 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Lafia shrank from about 231 hectares to 159 hectares, a net loss of about 72 hectares (−31%). New forest grew on about 12 hectares, but 84 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 Lafia right now?
The latest reading for Lafia shows an AQI of 80 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 225 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 Lafia 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 Lafia been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Lafia's daily AQI at 103 on average, from 84 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 155 on Nov 5. On 5 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Lafia lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Lafia 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 Lafia shrank from about 231 hectares to 159 hectares, a net loss of about 72 hectares (−31%). New forest grew on about 12 hectares, but 84 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Lafia?
Lafia has an estimated 20,106 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 6.4% tree cover, 24 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Lafia need?
Lafia needs roughly 74,142 more trees to close a 24-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,631 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Lafia'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 Lafia 950101; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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