City report · Minas Gerais, Brazil
Patos de Minas Air quality today
Air quality in Patos de Minas currently reads AQI 12 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 12
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 2.5
- tree cover
- 12.3%
- trees in this area
- 38.6K
- more trees needed
- 55.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Rosário, Patos de Minas - MG, Brazil (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 20, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Patos de Minas · AQI 12 (Good)
Patos de Minas's tree count comes to 38,642 trees across 12.57 km², 18 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 55,606 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Patos de Minas today: AQI 12, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 10:00 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
2.5
PM10
3.1
NO₂
0.8
O₃
60.0
SO₂
0.4
CO
119.0
- 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 Patos de Minas's daily AQI at 17 on average, from 9 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 68 on Nov 7.
Where Patos de Minas stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Patos de Minas: Critically low
12.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
38,642
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
55,606
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,223 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Patos de Minas lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Patos de Minas has lost about 939 hectares of forest (about 1,300 football pitches): 15% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (74%) 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 7 km northwest of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 939 haabout 1,300 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 15%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 697 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2004, when about 116 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 46 ha | 17 ha | 63 ha |
| 2002 | 57 ha | 2 ha | 59 ha |
| 2003 | 17 ha | 3 ha | 20 ha |
| 2004 | 110 ha | 6 ha | 116 ha |
| 2005 | 26 ha | 6 ha | 32 ha |
| 2006 | 17 ha | 2 ha | 19 ha |
| 2007 | 69 ha | 28 ha | 97 ha |
| 2008 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2009 | 16 ha | 5 ha | 21 ha |
| 2010 | 62 ha | 10 ha | 72 ha |
| 2011 | 17 ha | 1 ha | 18 ha |
| 2012 | 14 ha | 5 ha | 19 ha |
| 2013 | 8 ha | 5 ha | 13 ha |
| 2014 | 12 ha | 8 ha | 21 ha |
| 2015 | 21 ha | 2 ha | 23 ha |
| 2016 | 40 ha | 6 ha | 46 ha |
| 2017 | 19 ha | 17 ha | 36 ha |
| 2018 | 2 ha | 9 ha | 10 ha |
| 2019 | 22 ha | 49 ha | 71 ha |
| 2020 | 23 ha | 15 ha | 38 ha |
| 2021 | 20 ha | 13 ha | 33 ha |
| 2022 | 19 ha | 13 ha | 32 ha |
| 2023 | 36 ha | 10 ha | 46 ha |
| 2024 | 13 ha | 8 ha | 21 ha |
| 2025 | 6 ha | 1 ha | 8 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Patos de Minas?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good70% · 658 ha
- Loggingcan grow back24% · 222 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good4.3% · 40 ha
Also: 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
- 5,600 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 5,530 ha
- Overall change
- −64 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Patos de Minas stayed about the same size, at about 5,530 hectares: new forest grew on about 334 hectares, and about 398 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 Patos de Minas right now?
The latest reading for Patos de Minas shows an AQI of 12 (Good), observed Nov 11, 10:00 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 Patos de Minas today?
At AQI 12 (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 Patos de Minas been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Patos de Minas's daily AQI at 17 on average, from 9 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 68 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Patos de Minas lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Patos de Minas has lost about 939 hectares of forest (about 1,300 football pitches): 15% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (74%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Patos de Minas stayed about the same size, at about 5,530 hectares: new forest grew on about 334 hectares, and about 398 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Patos de Minas?
Patos de Minas has an estimated 38,642 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 12.3% tree cover, 18 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Patos de Minas need?
Patos de Minas needs roughly 55,606 more trees to close a 18-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,223 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Patos de Minas'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 Rosário; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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