City report · Anhui, China
Taozhou Air quality today
Air quality in Taozhou currently reads AQI 104 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 104
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 40.0
- tree cover
- 34.6%
- trees in this area
- 108K
- more trees needed
- 1.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Guangde, Xuancheng, Anhui, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Aug 2, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Taozhou · AQI 104 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Taozhou's tree count comes to 108,373 trees across 12.53 km² of land, 0 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 1,253 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Taozhou today: AQI 104, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 07:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 125 km, e.g. Xuancheng and Wuhu
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
40.0
PM10
53.2
NO₂
35.3
O₃
9.0
SO₂
5.8
CO
502.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Taozhou's daily AQI at 88 on average, from 57 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 154 on Nov 6.
Where Taozhou stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Taozhou: Below target
34.6% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.53 km² of land.
Trees in this area
108,373
Target trees
109,626
More trees needed
1,253
CO₂ if planted / yr
27.6 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Taozhou lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Taozhou has lost about 1,450 hectares of forest (about 2,000 football pitches): 29% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 618 hectares (43%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
2017: satellite photo from August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km west of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 1,450 haabout 2,000 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 29%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 618 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 74 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 68 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2011, when about 115 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2002 | 7 ha | 3 ha | 10 ha |
| 2003 | 4 ha | 6 ha | 10 ha |
| 2004 | 50 ha | 29 ha | 79 ha |
| 2005 | 21 ha | 27 ha | 49 ha |
| 2006 | 28 ha | 20 ha | 47 ha |
| 2007 | 25 ha | 34 ha | 58 ha |
| 2008 | 20 ha | 27 ha | 47 ha |
| 2009 | 29 ha | 24 ha | 53 ha |
| 2010 | 37 ha | 48 ha | 85 ha |
| 2011 | 87 ha | 28 ha | 115 ha |
| 2012 | 35 ha | 27 ha | 62 ha |
| 2013 | 12 ha | 29 ha | 40 ha |
| 2014 | 18 ha | 23 ha | 41 ha |
| 2015 | 17 ha | 19 ha | 36 ha |
| 2016 | 32 ha | 31 ha | 63 ha |
| 2017 | 28 ha | 50 ha | 78 ha |
| 2018 | 12 ha | 42 ha | 54 ha |
| 2019 | 19 ha | 54 ha | 73 ha |
| 2020 | 20 ha | 53 ha | 74 ha |
| 2021 | 14 ha | 63 ha | 77 ha |
| 2022 | 26 ha | 64 ha | 90 ha |
| 2023 | 30 ha | 69 ha | 99 ha |
| 2024 | 29 ha | 38 ha | 67 ha |
| 2025 | 18 ha | 20 ha | 38 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Taozhou?
- Loggingcan grow back57% · 829 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good29% · 417 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good14% · 201 ha
Also: 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
- 10,300 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 9,730 ha
- Overall change
- −573 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Taozhou shrank from about 10,300 hectares to 9,730 hectares, a net loss of about 573 hectares (−5.6%). New forest grew on about 654 hectares, but 1,230 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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Questions about Taozhou
What is the air quality (AQI) in Taozhou right now?
The latest reading for Taozhou shows an AQI of 104 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 07:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Taozhou today?
At AQI 104 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Taozhou been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Taozhou's daily AQI at 88 on average, from 57 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 154 on Nov 6. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Taozhou lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Taozhou has lost about 1,450 hectares of forest (about 2,000 football pitches): 29% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 618 hectares (43%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns. Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 74 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 68 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Taozhou shrank from about 10,300 hectares to 9,730 hectares, a net loss of about 573 hectares (−5.6%). New forest grew on about 654 hectares, but 1,230 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Taozhou?
Taozhou has an estimated 108,373 trees across the 12.53 km² of land measured — 34.6% tree cover, 0 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Taozhou need?
Taozhou needs roughly 1,253 more trees to close a 0-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 27.6 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Taozhou'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 Guangde; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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