City report · Ningxia, China
Wuzhong Air quality today
Air quality in Wuzhong currently reads AQI 128 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 128
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 59.5
- tree cover
- 16.0%
- trees in this area
- 50.2K
- more trees needed
- 59.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Litong District, Wuzhong, Ningxia, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Wuzhong · AQI 128 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Wuzhong's tree count comes to 50,215 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 19 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 59,631 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Wuzhong today: AQI 128, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 185 km, e.g. Yinchuan and Yinchuan
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
59.5
PM10
39.8
NO₂
49.3
O₃
24.0
SO₂
33.2
CO
1066.0
- 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 Wuzhong's daily AQI at 74 on average, from 62 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 110 on Nov 10.
Where Wuzhong stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Wuzhong: Critically low
16.0% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
50,215
Target trees
109,846
More trees needed
59,631
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,312 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Wuzhong lost?
There was almost no forest around Wuzhong in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
2017: satellite photo from July 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
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. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Wuzhong right now?
The latest reading for Wuzhong shows an AQI of 128 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 185 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 Wuzhong today?
At AQI 128 (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 Wuzhong been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Wuzhong's daily AQI at 74 on average, from 62 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 110 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 Wuzhong lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Wuzhong in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
What is the tree count in Wuzhong?
Wuzhong has an estimated 50,215 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 16.0% tree cover, 19 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Wuzhong need?
Wuzhong needs roughly 59,631 more trees to close a 19-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,312 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Wuzhong'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 Litong District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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