City report · Jamaica
Spanish Town
Measured across a 2 km radius around Spanish Town, Jamaica (12.57 km²)
- Tree cover
- 33.7%
- Air quality
- 53Moderate
- Trees in this area
- 106K
- More trees needed
- 0
- Area analyzed
- 12.57 km²
- Satellite image
- Sep 25, 2026
Spanish Town's tree count comes to 105,872 trees across 12.57 km² — already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area. Air quality currently reads AQI 53 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Spanish Town: Healthy tree cover
33.7% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
105,872
Target trees
105,872
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Air quality detail
Air quality in Spanish Town today: AQI 53, Moderate
Observed Oct 19, 02:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
9.8
PM10
11.6
NO₂
12.2
O₃
18.0
SO₂
1.9
CO
599.0
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Spanish Town lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Spanish Town has lost about 1,320 hectares of forest (about 1,800 football pitches): 9.3% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (79%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from January 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km west of the city centre.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 1,320 haabout 1,800 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 9.3%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 1,040 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss is slowing down: about 41 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 63 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2014, when about 214 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 12 ha | 2 ha | 15 ha |
| 2002 | 17 ha | 2 ha | 19 ha |
| 2003 | 18 ha | 3 ha | 21 ha |
| 2004 | 46 ha | 12 ha | 58 ha |
| 2005 | 23 ha | 21 ha | 43 ha |
| 2006 | 42 ha | 12 ha | 53 ha |
| 2007 | 19 ha | 5 ha | 25 ha |
| 2008 | 17 ha | 6 ha | 23 ha |
| 2009 | 37 ha | 8 ha | 45 ha |
| 2010 | 29 ha | 12 ha | 41 ha |
| 2011 | 25 ha | 8 ha | 33 ha |
| 2012 | 22 ha | 5 ha | 27 ha |
| 2013 | 58 ha | 6 ha | 63 ha |
| 2014 | 186 ha | 28 ha | 214 ha |
| 2015 | 103 ha | 13 ha | 116 ha |
| 2016 | 29 ha | 77 ha | 106 ha |
| 2017 | 35 ha | 24 ha | 59 ha |
| 2018 | 24 ha | 6 ha | 30 ha |
| 2019 | 35 ha | 3 ha | 38 ha |
| 2020 | 75 ha | 7 ha | 81 ha |
| 2021 | 45 ha | 5 ha | 50 ha |
| 2022 | 21 ha | 7 ha | 28 ha |
| 2023 | 24 ha | 1 ha | 25 ha |
| 2024 | 26 ha | 1 ha | 27 ha |
| 2025 | 75 ha | 2 ha | 77 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Spanish Town?
- Towns and roadscleared for good40% · 528 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good33% · 434 ha
- Shifting farmingcan grow back10% · 131 ha
Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, mining and energy, wildfires, 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
- 12,500 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 12,400 ha
- Overall change
- −163 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Spanish Town stayed about the same size, at about 12,400 hectares: new forest grew on about 229 hectares, and about 392 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 centre, 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 tree count in Spanish Town?
Spanish Town has an estimated 105,872 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 33.7% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Spanish Town need?
Spanish Town has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
What is the air quality (AQI) in Spanish Town right now?
The latest reading for Spanish Town shows an AQI of 53 (Moderate), observed Oct 19, 02:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
How much forest has the area around Spanish Town lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Spanish Town has lost about 1,320 hectares of forest (about 1,800 football pitches): 9.3% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (79%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Forest loss is slowing down: about 41 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 63 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Spanish Town stayed about the same size, at about 12,400 hectares: new forest grew on about 229 hectares, and about 392 hectares were lost.
How is Spanish Town's tree cover and air quality measured?
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 Spanish Town; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover. 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.
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