City report · Veracruz, Mexico
Orizaba Air quality today
Air quality in Orizaba currently reads AQI 43 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 43
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 8.5
- tree cover
- 25.7%
- trees in this area
- 80.7K
- more trees needed
- 13.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Centro, Orizaba, Ver., Mexico (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Orizaba · AQI 43 (Good)
Orizaba's tree count comes to 80,739 trees across 12.57 km², 4 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 13,509 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Orizaba today: AQI 43, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 17:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 7 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 7 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Puebla and San Pedro Cholula
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
8.5
PM10
7.8
NO₂
8.0
O₃
83.0
SO₂
2.0
CO
229.0
- 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 Orizaba's daily AQI at 49 on average, from 36 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 93 on Nov 10.
Where Orizaba stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Orizaba: Below target
25.7% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
80,739
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
13,509
CO₂ if planted / yr
297.2 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Orizaba lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Orizaba has lost about 995 hectares of forest (about 1,400 football pitches): 5.2% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to wildfires, so much of it can grow back. About 271 hectares (27%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
2017: satellite photo from February 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km southwest of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 995 haabout 1,400 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 5.2%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 271 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss is speeding up: about 134 hectares a year in 2021–2025, up from 35 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2024, when about 517 hectares of forest were lost, mostly to wildfires.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2002 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2003 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2004 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2005 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2006 | 11 ha | 6 ha | 17 ha |
| 2007 | 8 ha | 2 ha | 9 ha |
| 2008 | 5 ha | 3 ha | 8 ha |
| 2009 | 14 ha | 4 ha | 17 ha |
| 2010 | 16 ha | 3 ha | 19 ha |
| 2011 | 4 ha | 12 ha | 17 ha |
| 2012 | 5 ha | 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2013 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2014 | 9 ha | 7 ha | 16 ha |
| 2015 | 9 ha | 11 ha | 20 ha |
| 2016 | 17 ha | 9 ha | 26 ha |
| 2017 | 20 ha | 10 ha | 30 ha |
| 2018 | 15 ha | 8 ha | 23 ha |
| 2019 | 11 ha | 54 ha | 65 ha |
| 2020 | 15 ha | 14 ha | 30 ha |
| 2021 | 19 ha | 14 ha | 33 ha |
| 2022 | 9 ha | 13 ha | 22 ha |
| 2023 | 6 ha | 5 ha | 11 ha |
| 2024 | 42 ha | 475 ha | 517 ha |
| 2025 | 16 ha | 72 ha | 88 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Orizaba?
- Wildfirescan grow back69% · 689 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good18% · 176 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good9.6% · 95 ha
Also: shifting farming, 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
- 23,400 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 23,400 ha
- Overall change
- −47 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Orizaba stayed about the same size, at about 23,400 hectares: new forest grew on about 216 hectares, and about 263 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 Orizaba right now?
The latest reading for Orizaba shows an AQI of 43 (Good), observed Nov 10, 17:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 7 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Orizaba today?
At AQI 43 (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 Orizaba been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Orizaba's daily AQI at 49 on average, from 36 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 93 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 Orizaba lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Orizaba has lost about 995 hectares of forest (about 1,400 football pitches): 5.2% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to wildfires, so much of it can grow back. About 271 hectares (27%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns. Forest loss is speeding up: about 134 hectares a year in 2021–2025, up from 35 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Orizaba stayed about the same size, at about 23,400 hectares: new forest grew on about 216 hectares, and about 263 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Orizaba?
Orizaba has an estimated 80,739 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 25.7% tree cover, 4 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Orizaba need?
Orizaba needs roughly 13,509 more trees to close a 4-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 297.2 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Orizaba'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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