City report · Espírito Santo, Brazil
Vila Velha Air quality today
Air quality in Vila Velha currently reads AQI 16 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 16
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 2.9
- tree cover
- 27.0%
- trees in this area
- 60.7K
- more trees needed
- 6.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Centro de Vila Velha, Vila Velha - ES, Brazil (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Vila Velha · AQI 16 (Good)
Vila Velha's tree count comes to 60,733 trees across 9 km² of land, 3 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 6,748 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Vila Velha today: AQI 16, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 10:30 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Enseada do Suá, Espírito Santo, Brazil, 1.8 km away · median of 4 stations
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
2.9
PM10
12.6
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, IEMA - Instituto Estadual de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Hídricos
- 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 Vila Velha's daily AQI at 52 on average, from 43 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 64 on Nov 5.
Where Vila Velha stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Vila Velha: Below target
27.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 9 km² of land.
Trees in this area
60,733
Target trees
67,481
More trees needed
6,748
CO₂ if planted / yr
148.5 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Vila Velha lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Vila Velha has lost about 309 hectares of forest (about 430 football pitches): 7.8% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (88%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from June 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km southwest of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 309 haabout 430 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 7.8%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 270 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2017, when about 59 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2002 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2003 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2004 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2005 | 7 ha | under 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2006 | 33 ha | under 1 ha | 33 ha |
| 2007 | 20 ha | under 1 ha | 20 ha |
| 2008 | 24 ha | under 1 ha | 25 ha |
| 2009 | 27 ha | under 1 ha | 28 ha |
| 2010 | 10 ha | 1 ha | 11 ha |
| 2011 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2012 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2013 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2014 | 7 ha | under 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2015 | 4 ha | 2 ha | 6 ha |
| 2016 | 11 ha | 3 ha | 14 ha |
| 2017 | 37 ha | 22 ha | 59 ha |
| 2018 | 26 ha | 3 ha | 29 ha |
| 2019 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2020 | 8 ha | under 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2021 | 9 ha | under 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2022 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2023 | 9 ha | 1 ha | 10 ha |
| 2024 | 7 ha | under 1 ha | 7 ha |
| 2025 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Vila Velha?
- Towns and roadscleared for good59% · 183 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good28% · 86 ha
- Storms, floods and other natural causescan grow back9.4% · 29 ha
Also: mining and energy, 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
- 2,820 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 2,790 ha
- Overall change
- −34 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Vila Velha stayed about the same size, at about 2,790 hectares: new forest grew on about 111 hectares, and about 145 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 Vila Velha right now?
The latest reading for Vila Velha shows an AQI of 16 (Good), measured Nov 11, 10:30 local time by 4 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Enseada do Suá, Espírito Santo, Brazil, 1.8 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Vila Velha today?
At AQI 16 (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 Vila Velha been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Vila Velha's daily AQI at 52 on average, from 43 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 64 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Vila Velha lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Vila Velha has lost about 309 hectares of forest (about 430 football pitches): 7.8% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (88%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Vila Velha stayed about the same size, at about 2,790 hectares: new forest grew on about 111 hectares, and about 145 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Vila Velha?
Vila Velha has an estimated 60,733 trees across the 9 km² of land measured — 27.0% tree cover, 3 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Vila Velha need?
Vila Velha needs roughly 6,748 more trees to close a 3-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 148.5 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Vila Velha's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Centro de Vila Velha, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Centro de Vila Velha; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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