City report · Bas-Sassandra District, Ivory Coast
Soubré Air quality today
Air quality in Soubré currently reads AQI 35 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 35
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.6
- tree cover
- 8.5%
- trees in this area
- 26.6K
- more trees needed
- 67.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Soubre, Côte d'Ivoire (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Apr 8, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Soubré · AQI 35 (Good)
Soubré's tree count comes to 26,570 trees across 12.51 km² of land, 21 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 67,207 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Soubré today: AQI 35, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 15:00 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
6.6
PM10
12.4
NO₂
0.4
O₃
62.0
SO₂
0.3
CO
154.0
- 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 Soubré's daily AQI at 33 on average, from 18 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 55 on Nov 6.
Where Soubré stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Soubré: Critically low
8.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.51 km² of land.
Trees in this area
26,570
Target trees
93,777
More trees needed
67,207
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,479 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Soubré lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Soubré has lost about 4,030 hectares of forest (about 5,600 football pitches): 25% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (97%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2017: satellite photo from February 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 5 km north of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 4,030 haabout 5,600 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 25%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 3,900 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 136 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 166 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2001, when about 483 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 474 ha | 9 ha | 483 ha |
| 2002 | 250 ha | 3 ha | 253 ha |
| 2003 | 194 ha | 2 ha | 196 ha |
| 2004 | 28 ha | 2 ha | 30 ha |
| 2005 | 158 ha | 4 ha | 162 ha |
| 2006 | 50 ha | under 1 ha | 50 ha |
| 2007 | 226 ha | 2 ha | 228 ha |
| 2008 | 160 ha | 1 ha | 161 ha |
| 2009 | 106 ha | 1 ha | 107 ha |
| 2010 | 49 ha | under 1 ha | 50 ha |
| 2011 | 105 ha | 7 ha | 112 ha |
| 2012 | 17 ha | 1 ha | 19 ha |
| 2013 | 161 ha | 6 ha | 167 ha |
| 2014 | 379 ha | 32 ha | 411 ha |
| 2015 | 77 ha | 15 ha | 92 ha |
| 2016 | 134 ha | 14 ha | 148 ha |
| 2017 | 299 ha | 11 ha | 310 ha |
| 2018 | 145 ha | 1 ha | 146 ha |
| 2019 | 155 ha | 1 ha | 156 ha |
| 2020 | 67 ha | 1 ha | 68 ha |
| 2021 | 94 ha | 10 ha | 104 ha |
| 2022 | 126 ha | 3 ha | 129 ha |
| 2023 | 112 ha | 2 ha | 114 ha |
| 2024 | 282 ha | under 1 ha | 282 ha |
| 2025 | 51 ha | 2 ha | 53 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Soubré?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good80% · 3,210 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good12% · 484 ha
- Mining and energycleared for good5.1% · 206 ha
Also: storms, floods and other natural 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
- 15,000 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 14,100 ha
- Overall change
- −829 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Soubré shrank from about 15,000 hectares to 14,100 hectares, a net loss of about 829 hectares (−5.5%). New forest grew on about 2,040 hectares, but 2,870 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 Soubré right now?
The latest reading for Soubré shows an AQI of 35 (Good), observed Nov 10, 15:00 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 Soubré today?
At AQI 35 (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 Soubré been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Soubré's daily AQI at 33 on average, from 18 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 55 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 Soubré lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Soubré has lost about 4,030 hectares of forest (about 5,600 football pitches): 25% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (97%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 136 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 166 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Soubré shrank from about 15,000 hectares to 14,100 hectares, a net loss of about 829 hectares (−5.5%). New forest grew on about 2,040 hectares, but 2,870 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Soubré?
Soubré has an estimated 26,570 trees across the 12.51 km² of land measured — 8.5% tree cover, 21 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Soubré need?
Soubré needs roughly 67,207 more trees to close a 21-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,479 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Soubré'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 Soubre; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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