City report · Queensland, Australia
Toowoomba Air quality today
Air quality in Toowoomba currently reads AQI 19 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 19
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.3
- tree cover
- 30.5%
- trees in this area
- 95.8K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Toowoomba City QLD 4350, Australia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Nov 4, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Toowoomba · AQI 19 (Good)
Toowoomba's tree count comes to 95,819 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 Toowoomba today: AQI 19, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 165 km, e.g. Brisbane City and Surfers Paradise
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
3.3
PM10
6.7
NO₂
3.9
O₃
70.0
SO₂
1.2
CO
110.0
- 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 Toowoomba's daily AQI at 32 on average, from 9 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 60 on Nov 10.
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Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Toowoomba: Healthy tree cover
30.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
95,819
Target trees
95,819
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Toowoomba lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Toowoomba has lost about 246 hectares of forest (about 340 football pitches): 3.2% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (87%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from July 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 6 km northeast of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 246 haabout 340 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 3.2%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 214 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2016, when about 99 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 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2003 | 20 ha | 2 ha | 21 ha |
| 2004 | 7 ha | 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2005 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2006 | 9 ha | under 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2007 | 6 ha | under 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2008 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2009 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2010 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2011 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2012 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2013 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2014 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2015 | 3 ha | 3 ha | 6 ha |
| 2016 | 97 ha | 3 ha | 99 ha |
| 2017 | 16 ha | under 1 ha | 16 ha |
| 2018 | 7 ha | 6 ha | 13 ha |
| 2019 | 8 ha | under 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2020 | 9 ha | 11 ha | 20 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 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 Toowoomba?
- Towns and roadscleared for good60% · 148 ha
- Mining and energycleared for good23% · 56 ha
- Wildfirescan grow back5.5% · 13 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
- 14,300 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 14,100 ha
- Overall change
- −199 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Toowoomba stayed about the same size, at about 14,100 hectares: new forest grew on about 101 hectares, and about 300 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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- 20%
- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Sunshine Coast150.0 km
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- Air quality
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- Gold Coast153.3 km
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- Air quality
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- Newcastle597.2 km
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Toowoomba right now?
The latest reading for Toowoomba shows an AQI of 19 (Good), observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Toowoomba today?
At AQI 19 (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 Toowoomba been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Toowoomba's daily AQI at 32 on average, from 9 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 60 on Nov 10. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Toowoomba lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Toowoomba has lost about 246 hectares of forest (about 340 football pitches): 3.2% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (87%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Toowoomba stayed about the same size, at about 14,100 hectares: new forest grew on about 101 hectares, and about 300 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Toowoomba?
Toowoomba has an estimated 95,819 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 30.5% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Toowoomba need?
Toowoomba has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Toowoomba'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 Toowoomba City QLD 4350; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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