City report · Gombe State, Nigeria
Pindiga Air quality today
Air quality in Pindiga currently reads AQI 71 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 71
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 19.5
- tree cover
- 3.2%
- trees in this area
- 10.1K
- more trees needed
- 84.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Pindiga 771103, Gombe, Nigeria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Nov 1, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Pindiga · AQI 71 (Moderate)
Pindiga's tree count comes to 10,053 trees across 12.57 km², 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 84,195 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Pindiga today: AQI 71, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
19.5
PM10
50.5
NO₂
0.6
O₃
90.0
SO₂
0.5
CO
155.0
- 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 Pindiga's daily AQI at 93 on average, from 82 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 146 on Nov 6.
Where Pindiga stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Pindiga: Critically low
3.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
10,053
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
84,195
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,852 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Pindiga lost?
There was almost no forest around Pindiga 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
- 261 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 162 ha
- Overall change
- −99 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Pindiga shrank from about 261 hectares to 162 hectares, a net loss of about 99 hectares (−38%). New forest grew on about under 1 hectare, but 100 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 Pindiga right now?
The latest reading for Pindiga shows an AQI of 71 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Pindiga today?
At AQI 71 (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 Pindiga been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Pindiga's daily AQI at 93 on average, from 82 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 146 on Nov 6. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Pindiga lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Pindiga 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 Pindiga shrank from about 261 hectares to 162 hectares, a net loss of about 99 hectares (−38%). New forest grew on about under 1 hectare, but 100 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Pindiga?
Pindiga has an estimated 10,053 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.2% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Pindiga need?
Pindiga needs roughly 84,195 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,852 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Pindiga'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 Pindiga 771103; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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