City report · Western Visayas, Philippines
Roxas City Air quality today
Air quality in Roxas City currently reads AQI 36 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 36
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 5.9
- tree cover
- 29.5%
- trees in this area
- 81.7K
- more trees needed
- 1.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Tanque, Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Aug 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Roxas City · AQI 36 (Good)
Roxas City's tree count comes to 81,741 trees across 11.09 km² of land, 1 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 1,385 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Roxas City today: AQI 36, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 5 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Talisay and Bacolod
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
5.9
PM10
4.2
NO₂
0.7
O₃
59.0
SO₂
0.5
CO
136.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Roxas City's daily AQI at 23 on average, from 16 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 44 on Nov 6.
Where Roxas City stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Roxas City: Below target
29.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.09 km² of land.
Trees in this area
81,741
Target trees
83,126
More trees needed
1,385
CO₂ if planted / yr
30.5 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Roxas City lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Roxas City has lost about 107 hectares of forest (about 150 football pitches): 3% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (88%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2019: satellite photo from April 2019 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 107 haabout 150 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 3%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 94 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2014, when about 15 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 7 ha | 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2002 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2003 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2004 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2005 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2006 | 6 ha | under 1 ha | 7 ha |
| 2007 | 6 ha | 1 ha | 7 ha |
| 2008 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2009 | 8 ha | under 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2010 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2012 | 6 ha | 1 ha | 7 ha |
| 2013 | 4 ha | 2 ha | 5 ha |
| 2014 | 13 ha | 1 ha | 15 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | 9 ha | under 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2017 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2018 | 3 ha | 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2019 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2020 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2023 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Roxas City?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good58% · 63 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good20% · 22 ha
- Mining and energycleared for good9.2% · 10 ha
Also: shifting farming, storms, floods and other natural causes, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 3,020 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 2,850 ha
- Overall change
- −169 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Roxas City shrank from about 3,020 hectares to 2,850 hectares, a net loss of about 169 hectares (−5.6%). New forest grew on about 40 hectares, but 209 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
These figures cover everything within 10 km of the city center, a wider area than the report above, because forest is usually lost at a city's edges.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Roxas City right now?
The latest reading for Roxas City shows an AQI of 36 (Good), observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Roxas City today?
At AQI 36 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Roxas City been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Roxas City's daily AQI at 23 on average, from 16 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 44 on Nov 6. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Roxas City lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Roxas City has lost about 107 hectares of forest (about 150 football pitches): 3% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (88%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Roxas City shrank from about 3,020 hectares to 2,850 hectares, a net loss of about 169 hectares (−5.6%). New forest grew on about 40 hectares, but 209 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Roxas City?
Roxas City has an estimated 81,741 trees across the 11.09 km² of land measured — 29.5% tree cover, 1 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Roxas City need?
Roxas City needs roughly 1,385 more trees to close a 1-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 30.5 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Roxas City's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality comes from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where one reports nearby, and otherwise, as here, from the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, which may differ from street-level monitors. Tree cover is measured from Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search satellite imagery at 10 m detail across a 2 km radius around Tanque; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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