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Air quality in Sverdlovsk Oblast today The AQI right now, city by city
Right now, Pervouralsk has the cleanest air of the 4 cities we track in Sverdlovsk Oblast (AQI 1, Good), and Yekaterinburg the worst (AQI 6, Good). Kamensk-Ural’skiy has the most tree cover, at 48.6% — #17 of 168 cities measured in Russia.
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 3
Average right now
Good
- cities tracked
- 4
- average tree cover
- 39.2%
- Russia: 34.1%
- worst air now: Yekaterinburg
- 6
- cleanest air now: Pervouralsk
- 1
Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf, refreshed hourly.
Sverdlovsk Oblast · average AQI 3
Air quality today across Sverdlovsk Oblast, city by city
| Yekaterinburg | 6Good | 28.4% | 4.9K | #121 of 168 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nizhny Tagil | 2Good | 37.8% | — | #60 of 168 |
| Kamensk-Ural’skiy | 4Good | 48.6% | — | #17 of 168 |
| Pervouralsk | 1Good | 42.1% | — | #36 of 168 |
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 Russia.
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sverdlovsk Oblast lost?
Since 2001, Sverdlovsk Oblast has lost about 1.02 million hectares of forest (about 10,000 km²): 6.7% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 26,000 hectares (2.5%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 1.02 million haabout 10,000 km²
- Share of its forest
- 6.7%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 26,000 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 | 276 ha | 14,700 ha | 14,900 ha |
| 2002 | 457 ha | 21,000 ha | 21,500 ha |
| 2003 | 206 ha | 9,710 ha | 9,920 ha |
| 2004 | 725 ha | 44,700 ha | 45,400 ha |
| 2005 | 468 ha | 33,400 ha | 33,900 ha |
| 2006 | 821 ha | 23,400 ha | 24,300 ha |
| 2007 | 885 ha | 21,900 ha | 22,800 ha |
| 2008 | 1,400 ha | 31,500 ha | 32,900 ha |
| 2009 | 895 ha | 28,600 ha | 29,500 ha |
| 2010 | 988 ha | 31,900 ha | 32,900 ha |
| 2011 | 1,520 ha | 179,000 ha | 180,000 ha |
| 2012 | 1,500 ha | 69,300 ha | 70,800 ha |
| 2013 | 943 ha | 24,200 ha | 25,100 ha |
| 2014 | 1,120 ha | 24,000 ha | 25,100 ha |
| 2015 | 924 ha | 22,400 ha | 23,300 ha |
| 2016 | 1,610 ha | 27,300 ha | 28,900 ha |
| 2017 | 1,070 ha | 27,600 ha | 28,600 ha |
| 2018 | 1,160 ha | 28,300 ha | 29,400 ha |
| 2019 | 1,220 ha | 26,500 ha | 27,700 ha |
| 2020 | 1,630 ha | 27,900 ha | 29,600 ha |
| 2021 | 1,100 ha | 39,800 ha | 40,900 ha |
| 2022 | 1,740 ha | 40,600 ha | 42,300 ha |
| 2023 | 1,820 ha | 117,000 ha | 119,000 ha |
| 2024 | 826 ha | 47,700 ha | 48,500 ha |
| 2025 | 647 ha | 32,200 ha | 32,800 ha |
Forest loss is speeding up: about 56,800 hectares a year in 2021–2025, up from 28,900 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2011, when about 180,000 hectares of forest were lost, mostly to wildfires.
What is causing deforestation in Sverdlovsk Oblast?
- Loggingcan grow back61% · 626,000 ha
- Wildfirescan grow back33% · 338,000 ha
- Mining and energycleared for good2% · 20,100 ha
Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, towns and roads, farms, pasture and plantations, 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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