City report · Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sabará Air quality today
Air quality in Sabará currently reads AQI 26 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 26
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 5.1
- tree cover
- 61.7%
- trees in this area
- 194K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Centro, Sabará - MG, Brazil (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Sabará · AQI 26 (Good)
Sabará's tree count comes to 193,836 trees across 12.57 km², already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Sabará today: AQI 26, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
5.1
PM10
6.1
NO₂
3.1
O₃
74.0
SO₂
3.2
CO
109.0
- 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 Sabará's daily AQI at 35 on average, from 16 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 80 on Nov 6.
Where Sabará stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Sabará: Healthy tree cover
61.7% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
193,836
Target trees
193,836
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sabará lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Sabará has lost about 914 hectares of forest (about 1,300 football pitches): 5.6% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (68%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for mining and energy.
2017: satellite photo from August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km east of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 914 haabout 1,300 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 5.6%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 618 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2014, when about 106 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 20 ha | 3 ha | 24 ha |
| 2002 | 5 ha | 2 ha | 7 ha |
| 2003 | 16 ha | 4 ha | 20 ha |
| 2004 | 14 ha | 9 ha | 23 ha |
| 2005 | 30 ha | 2 ha | 32 ha |
| 2006 | 25 ha | 2 ha | 27 ha |
| 2007 | 31 ha | 2 ha | 32 ha |
| 2008 | 31 ha | 1 ha | 32 ha |
| 2009 | 21 ha | 3 ha | 23 ha |
| 2010 | 5 ha | 2 ha | 7 ha |
| 2011 | 29 ha | 2 ha | 31 ha |
| 2012 | 34 ha | 3 ha | 37 ha |
| 2013 | 58 ha | 2 ha | 60 ha |
| 2014 | 49 ha | 57 ha | 106 ha |
| 2015 | 66 ha | 26 ha | 92 ha |
| 2016 | 43 ha | 14 ha | 57 ha |
| 2017 | 29 ha | 22 ha | 51 ha |
| 2018 | 11 ha | 13 ha | 24 ha |
| 2019 | 24 ha | 49 ha | 73 ha |
| 2020 | 7 ha | 17 ha | 24 ha |
| 2021 | 11 ha | under 1 ha | 12 ha |
| 2022 | 6 ha | 2 ha | 7 ha |
| 2023 | 12 ha | 3 ha | 15 ha |
| 2024 | 28 ha | 50 ha | 78 ha |
| 2025 | 15 ha | 8 ha | 23 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Sabará?
- Mining and energycleared for good39% · 354 ha
- Wildfirescan grow back26% · 235 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good16% · 150 ha
Also: farms, pasture and plantations, logging, 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
- 16,100 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 15,700 ha
- Overall change
- −346 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Sabará shrank from about 16,100 hectares to 15,700 hectares, a net loss of about 346 hectares (−2.2%). New forest grew on about 157 hectares, but 503 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Sabará right now?
The latest reading for Sabará shows an AQI of 26 (Good), observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Sabará today?
At AQI 26 (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 Sabará been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sabará's daily AQI at 35 on average, from 16 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 80 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 Sabará lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Sabará has lost about 914 hectares of forest (about 1,300 football pitches): 5.6% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (68%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for mining and energy. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Sabará shrank from about 16,100 hectares to 15,700 hectares, a net loss of about 346 hectares (−2.2%). New forest grew on about 157 hectares, but 503 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Sabará?
Sabará has an estimated 193,836 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 61.7% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Sabará need?
Sabará has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Sabará'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 Centro; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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