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Air quality now: Piura

Peru · Piura · 2 cities

Air quality in Piura today The AQI right now, city by city

Right now, Sullana has the cleanest air of the 2 cities we track in Piura (AQI 34, Good), and Piura the worst (AQI 36, Good). Sullana has the most tree cover, at 8.9% — #4 of 21 cities measured in Peru.

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.

cities tracked
2
average tree cover
6.2%
Peru: 5.0%
worst air now: Piura
36
cleanest air now: Sullana
34

Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf, refreshed hourly.

Piura

Air quality today across Piura, city by city

Current air quality and tree cover for cities in Piura, Peru
Piura36Good3.4%83.6K#10 of 21
Sullana34Good8.9%64.4K#4 of 21

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 Peru.

Deforestation · 2001–2025

How much forest has Piura lost?

Since 2001, Piura has lost about 21,700 hectares of forest (about 30,000 football pitches): 4.1% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (87%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.

Forest lost since 2001
21,700 haabout 30,000 football pitches
Share of its forest
4.1%of what there was in 2000
Cleared for good
19,000 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest lost each year in Piura, 2001–2025

Hectares of forest lost each year

Forest lost each year in Piura, 2001–2025. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each year.2.51K

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Forest lost each year in Piura, 2001–2025
YearCleared for goodCan grow backTotal
2001455 ha136 ha591 ha
2002904 ha120 ha1,020 ha
2003667 ha50 ha717 ha
2004816 ha44 ha860 ha
2005787 ha47 ha834 ha
20061,240 ha84 ha1,320 ha
2007485 ha66 ha551 ha
2008824 ha79 ha903 ha
2009740 ha49 ha789 ha
2010338 ha29 ha367 ha
2011351 ha27 ha378 ha
20121,500 ha158 ha1,660 ha
20131,150 ha179 ha1,330 ha
20141,150 ha141 ha1,290 ha
2015453 ha39 ha492 ha
2016694 ha76 ha770 ha
20171,730 ha785 ha2,510 ha
2018499 ha39 ha538 ha
2019363 ha24 ha387 ha
2020283 ha11 ha294 ha
2021497 ha40 ha537 ha
2022419 ha27 ha446 ha
20231,450 ha235 ha1,680 ha
2024542 ha122 ha664 ha
2025643 ha157 ha800 ha

Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 826 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 900 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2017, when about 2,510 hectares of forest were lost.

What is causing deforestation in Piura?

  • Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good87% · 18,800 ha
  • Wildfirescan grow back7.4% · 1,600 ha
  • Storms, floods and other natural causescan grow back2.5% · 540 ha

Also: mining and energy, towns and roads, logging, 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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