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Air quality in Jharkhand today The AQI right now, city by city
Right now, Hazāribāgh has the cleanest air of the 8 cities we track in Jharkhand (AQI 98, Moderate), and Phusro the worst (AQI 196, Unhealthy). Bokāro has the most tree cover, at 65.3% — #16 of 470 cities measured in India.
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.
Average right now
AQI 124
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- cities tracked
- 8
- average tree cover
- 43.6%
- India: 27.3%
- worst air now: Phusro
- 196
- cleanest air now: Hazāribāgh
- 98
Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous, and it reads differently from India's AQI (CPCB). Measured by Airleaf, refreshed hourly.
Jharkhand · average AQI 124
Air quality today across Jharkhand, city by city
| Jamshedpur | 148Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 55.5% | — | #30 of 470 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhanbad | 104Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 43.1% | — | #59 of 470 |
| Ranchi | 99Moderate | 37.2% | — | #94 of 470 |
| Bokāro | 123Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 65.3% | — | #16 of 470 |
| Deoghar | 128Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 45.2% | — | #50 of 470 |
| Phusro | 196Unhealthy | 39.5% | 1.5K | #78 of 470 |
| Hazāribāgh | 98Moderate | 34.1% | — | #110 of 470 |
| Giridih | 99Moderate | 28.6% | 4.4K | #157 of 470 |
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 India.
Is this the same as India's AQI (CPCB)?
No. Airleaf shows the US EPA Air Quality Index (AQI), the scale used by IQAir and most air-quality apps. India's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) publishes the National Air Quality Index on its own scale: 0–50 good, 51–100 satisfactory, 101–200 moderate, 201–300 poor, 301–400 very poor and 401–500 severe. The two scales don't line up. At moderate fine-particle levels the US scale reads higher: 55 µg/m³ of PM2.5 is 149 on the US AQI but about 92, "satisfactory", on India's. In heavy smog India's reads higher: 100 µg/m³ is 182 on the US AQI and about 232, "poor", on India's. CPCB also averages particles over 24 hours, so its figure moves more slowly than an hourly reading.
India's AQI (CPCB) and the AQI, explainedDeforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Jharkhand lost?
Since 2001, Jharkhand has lost about 6,460 hectares of forest (about 9,100 football pitches): 1.2% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (58%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 6,460 haabout 9,100 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 1.2%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 3,730 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Hectares of forest lost each year
Show the figures as a table
| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 428 ha | 220 ha | 648 ha |
| 2002 | 44 ha | 42 ha | 87 ha |
| 2003 | 24 ha | 17 ha | 40 ha |
| 2004 | 113 ha | 64 ha | 177 ha |
| 2005 | 193 ha | 89 ha | 282 ha |
| 2006 | 324 ha | 154 ha | 478 ha |
| 2007 | 168 ha | 67 ha | 235 ha |
| 2008 | 207 ha | 133 ha | 340 ha |
| 2009 | 567 ha | 271 ha | 838 ha |
| 2010 | 262 ha | 113 ha | 375 ha |
| 2011 | 115 ha | 69 ha | 184 ha |
| 2012 | 200 ha | 118 ha | 318 ha |
| 2013 | 63 ha | 70 ha | 133 ha |
| 2014 | 75 ha | 63 ha | 138 ha |
| 2015 | 35 ha | 59 ha | 94 ha |
| 2016 | 69 ha | 98 ha | 167 ha |
| 2017 | 128 ha | 186 ha | 314 ha |
| 2018 | 74 ha | 87 ha | 161 ha |
| 2019 | 69 ha | 98 ha | 167 ha |
| 2020 | 78 ha | 115 ha | 193 ha |
| 2021 | 61 ha | 65 ha | 126 ha |
| 2022 | 31 ha | 50 ha | 81 ha |
| 2023 | 151 ha | 214 ha | 365 ha |
| 2024 | 143 ha | 164 ha | 307 ha |
| 2025 | 111 ha | 106 ha | 217 ha |
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 219 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 200 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2009, when about 838 hectares of forest were lost.
What is causing deforestation in Jharkhand?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good52% · 3,370 ha
- Shifting farmingcan grow back26% · 1,700 ha
- Loggingcan grow back5.4% · 352 ha
Also: mining and energy, wildfires, storms, floods and other natural causes, towns and roads, 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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