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Air quality in Bahia today The AQI right now, city by city
Right now, Vitória da Conquista has the cleanest air of the 17 cities we track in Bahia (AQI 5, Good), and Feira de Santana the worst (AQI 50, Good). Porto Seguro has the most tree cover, at 53.6% — #18 of 304 cities measured in Brazil.
Every city is measured the same way, over the same 2 km around its center: the air quality right now, from ground stations where there are any, and its tree cover.
AQI 23
Average right now
Good
- cities tracked
- 17
- average tree cover
- 21.9%
- Brazil: 26.0%
- worst air now: Feira de Santana
- 50
- cleanest air now: Vitória da Conquista
- 5
Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf, refreshed hourly.
Bahia · average AQI 23
Air quality today across Bahia, city by city
| Salvador | 42Good | 9.8% | 63.3K | #282 of 304 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feira de Santana | 50Good | 6.3% | 74.5K | #300 of 304 |
| Vitória da Conquista | 5Good | 12.9% | 53.5K | #261 of 304 |
| Camaçari | 42Good | 31.0% | — | #89 of 304 |
| Lauro de Freitas | 42Good | 24.0% | 18.9K | #140 of 304 |
| Itabuna | 12Good | 30.6% | — | #94 of 304 |
| Ilhéus | 11Good | 28.2% | 3.0K | #108 of 304 |
| Porto Seguro | 9Good | 53.6% | — | #18 of 304 |
| Barreiras | 19Good | 21.6% | 26.4K | #167 of 304 |
| Alagoinhas | 28Good | 17.1% | 40.5K | #202 of 304 |
| Teixeira de Freitas | 11Good | 15.2% | 46.5K | #232 of 304 |
| Jequié | 11Good | 19.2% | 33.9K | #183 of 304 |
| Eunápolis | 9Good | 20.7% | 29.2K | #174 of 304 |
| Paulo Afonso | 21Good | 14.6% | 36.7K | #238 of 304 |
| Simões Filho | 42Good | 46.7% | — | #35 of 304 |
| Santo Antônio de Jesus | 13Good | 17.5% | 39.3K | #195 of 304 |
| Luis Eduardo Magalhães | 26Good | 3.1% | 84.5K | #304 of 304 |
Air quality is the US AQI from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where available, otherwise the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, refreshed hourly. Tree cover is measured within 2 km of each city center from Sentinel-2 imagery; the rank compares every city measured in Brazil.
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bahia lost?
Since 2001, Bahia has lost about 3.99 million hectares of forest (about 40,000 km²): 21% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (68%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 3.99 million haabout 40,000 km²
- Share of its forest
- 21%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 2.7 million hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 122,000 ha | 23,900 ha | 146,000 ha |
| 2002 | 92,300 ha | 28,300 ha | 121,000 ha |
| 2003 | 135,000 ha | 29,600 ha | 164,000 ha |
| 2004 | 113,000 ha | 39,100 ha | 152,000 ha |
| 2005 | 111,000 ha | 35,200 ha | 146,000 ha |
| 2006 | 146,000 ha | 31,400 ha | 178,000 ha |
| 2007 | 135,000 ha | 49,600 ha | 185,000 ha |
| 2008 | 145,000 ha | 26,800 ha | 172,000 ha |
| 2009 | 119,000 ha | 46,900 ha | 166,000 ha |
| 2010 | 153,000 ha | 43,000 ha | 196,000 ha |
| 2011 | 111,000 ha | 35,800 ha | 147,000 ha |
| 2012 | 194,000 ha | 79,000 ha | 273,000 ha |
| 2013 | 97,400 ha | 57,400 ha | 155,000 ha |
| 2014 | 118,000 ha | 69,800 ha | 187,000 ha |
| 2015 | 87,400 ha | 80,100 ha | 168,000 ha |
| 2016 | 130,000 ha | 164,000 ha | 293,000 ha |
| 2017 | 96,200 ha | 68,500 ha | 165,000 ha |
| 2018 | 63,700 ha | 61,200 ha | 125,000 ha |
| 2019 | 70,500 ha | 33,200 ha | 104,000 ha |
| 2020 | 68,900 ha | 39,600 ha | 108,000 ha |
| 2021 | 68,500 ha | 52,600 ha | 121,000 ha |
| 2022 | 95,200 ha | 74,200 ha | 169,000 ha |
| 2023 | 106,000 ha | 53,800 ha | 160,000 ha |
| 2024 | 61,500 ha | 35,400 ha | 96,900 ha |
| 2025 | 58,000 ha | 36,800 ha | 94,800 ha |
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 128,000 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 159,000 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2016, when about 293,000 hectares of forest were lost.
What is causing deforestation in Bahia?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good67% · 2.67 million ha
- Wildfirescan grow back20% · 796,000 ha
- Loggingcan grow back12% · 469,000 ha
Also: towns and roads, storms, floods and other natural causes, mining and energy, shifting farming, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
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. How it's measured
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