City report · Michoacán, Mexico
Uruapan Air quality today
Air quality in Uruapan currently reads AQI 147 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 147
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 48.6
- tree cover
- 19.1%
- trees in this area
- 60.0K
- more trees needed
- 50.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around San Francisco, Uruapan, Mich., Mexico (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Aug 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Uruapan · AQI 147 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Uruapan's tree count comes to 60,004 trees across 12.57 km², 16 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 49,951 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Uruapan today: AQI 147, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 11:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 205 km, e.g. San Pedro Tlaquepaque and Zapopan
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
48.6
PM10
23.7
NO₂
3.5
O₃
116.0
SO₂
3.0
CO
192.0
- 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 Uruapan's daily AQI at 68 on average, from 45 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 97 on Nov 9.
Where Uruapan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Uruapan: Critically low
19.1% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
60,004
Target trees
109,955
More trees needed
49,951
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,099 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Uruapan lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Uruapan has lost about 1,300 hectares of forest (about 1,800 football pitches): 6.9% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (90%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2017: satellite photo from March 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km northwest of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 1,300 haabout 1,800 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 6.9%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 1,170 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 69 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 75 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2018, when about 135 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 7 ha | under 1 ha | 7 ha |
| 2002 | 14 ha | under 1 ha | 14 ha |
| 2003 | 18 ha | under 1 ha | 19 ha |
| 2004 | 27 ha | under 1 ha | 27 ha |
| 2005 | 35 ha | 1 ha | 36 ha |
| 2006 | 87 ha | 2 ha | 88 ha |
| 2007 | 47 ha | 3 ha | 51 ha |
| 2008 | 68 ha | 1 ha | 69 ha |
| 2009 | 48 ha | 2 ha | 50 ha |
| 2010 | 74 ha | under 1 ha | 75 ha |
| 2011 | 41 ha | under 1 ha | 42 ha |
| 2012 | 9 ha | under 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2013 | 41 ha | under 1 ha | 42 ha |
| 2014 | 31 ha | 1 ha | 32 ha |
| 2015 | 19 ha | under 1 ha | 20 ha |
| 2016 | 86 ha | under 1 ha | 87 ha |
| 2017 | 48 ha | 2 ha | 50 ha |
| 2018 | 100 ha | 35 ha | 135 ha |
| 2019 | 44 ha | 30 ha | 74 ha |
| 2020 | 24 ha | 3 ha | 27 ha |
| 2021 | 44 ha | 7 ha | 51 ha |
| 2022 | 70 ha | 14 ha | 84 ha |
| 2023 | 31 ha | 12 ha | 42 ha |
| 2024 | 122 ha | 6 ha | 128 ha |
| 2025 | 33 ha | 6 ha | 39 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Uruapan?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good79% · 1,030 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good10% · 134 ha
- Wildfirescan grow back7.5% · 98 ha
Also: logging, mining and energy, storms, floods and other natural causes, 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
- 24,200 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 24,100 ha
- Overall change
- −133 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Uruapan stayed about the same size, at about 24,100 hectares: new forest grew on about 522 hectares, and about 655 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 Uruapan right now?
The latest reading for Uruapan shows an AQI of 147 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 11:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 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 Uruapan today?
At AQI 147 (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 Uruapan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Uruapan's daily AQI at 68 on average, from 45 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 97 on Nov 9. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Uruapan lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Uruapan has lost about 1,300 hectares of forest (about 1,800 football pitches): 6.9% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (90%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 69 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 75 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Uruapan stayed about the same size, at about 24,100 hectares: new forest grew on about 522 hectares, and about 655 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Uruapan?
Uruapan has an estimated 60,004 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 19.1% tree cover, 16 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Uruapan need?
Uruapan needs roughly 49,951 more trees to close a 16-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,099 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Uruapan'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 San Francisco; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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