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Air quality in Odisha today The AQI right now, city by city
Right now, Puri has the cleanest air of the 10 cities we track in Odisha (AQI 43, Good), and Baripāda the worst (AQI 156, Unhealthy). Baripāda has the most tree cover, at 58.7% — #25 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 105
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- cities tracked
- 10
- average tree cover
- 39.5%
- India: 27.3%
- worst air now: Baripāda
- 156
- cleanest air now: Puri
- 43
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.
Odisha · average AQI 105
Air quality today across Odisha, city by city
| Nowrangapur | 123Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 26.6% | 26.2K | #191 of 470 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bhubaneswar | 65Moderate | 50.9% | — | #41 of 470 |
| Cuttack | 81Moderate | 25.4% | 14.1K | #208 of 470 |
| Brahmapur | 117Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 25.1% | 31.0K | #214 of 470 |
| Rourkela | 141Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 42.8% | — | #60 of 470 |
| Puri | 43Good | 25.7% | 8.6K | #200 of 470 |
| Sambalpur | 140Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 45.0% | — | #52 of 470 |
| Balasore | 44Good | 54.0% | — | #33 of 470 |
| Bhadrak | 138Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 40.7% | — | #72 of 470 |
| Baripāda | 156Unhealthy | 58.7% | — | #25 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 Odisha lost?
Since 2001, Odisha has lost about 156,000 hectares of forest (about 220,000 football pitches): 5.8% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to shifting farming, so much of it can grow back. About 52,900 hectares (34%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 156,000 haabout 220,000 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 5.8%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 52,900 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 | 1,110 ha | 1,920 ha | 3,030 ha |
| 2002 | 1,730 ha | 2,270 ha | 3,990 ha |
| 2003 | 1,980 ha | 3,420 ha | 5,400 ha |
| 2004 | 2,120 ha | 2,360 ha | 4,480 ha |
| 2005 | 1,570 ha | 2,060 ha | 3,630 ha |
| 2006 | 2,010 ha | 2,210 ha | 4,220 ha |
| 2007 | 2,720 ha | 3,180 ha | 5,900 ha |
| 2008 | 2,960 ha | 2,980 ha | 5,940 ha |
| 2009 | 2,140 ha | 2,670 ha | 4,810 ha |
| 2010 | 1,270 ha | 1,140 ha | 2,410 ha |
| 2011 | 3,380 ha | 2,310 ha | 5,680 ha |
| 2012 | 1,840 ha | 1,970 ha | 3,810 ha |
| 2013 | 1,150 ha | 4,230 ha | 5,380 ha |
| 2014 | 1,790 ha | 5,760 ha | 7,550 ha |
| 2015 | 762 ha | 3,120 ha | 3,880 ha |
| 2016 | 1,920 ha | 6,450 ha | 8,380 ha |
| 2017 | 2,300 ha | 7,860 ha | 10,200 ha |
| 2018 | 2,190 ha | 7,630 ha | 9,820 ha |
| 2019 | 1,770 ha | 6,010 ha | 7,780 ha |
| 2020 | 2,540 ha | 6,420 ha | 8,960 ha |
| 2021 | 1,190 ha | 3,710 ha | 4,900 ha |
| 2022 | 2,600 ha | 5,360 ha | 7,960 ha |
| 2023 | 3,990 ha | 7,740 ha | 11,700 ha |
| 2024 | 2,870 ha | 5,550 ha | 8,420 ha |
| 2025 | 3,020 ha | 5,200 ha | 8,230 ha |
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 8,250 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 9,020 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2023, when about 11,700 hectares of forest were lost.
What is causing deforestation in Odisha?
- Shifting farmingcan grow back62% · 96,900 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good33% · 51,400 ha
- Loggingcan grow back2.3% · 3,600 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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