City report · Maysan, Iraq
Al ‘Amārah Air quality today
Air quality in Al ‘Amārah currently reads AQI 114 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 114
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 42.8
- tree cover
- 2.3%
- trees in this area
- 7.2K
- more trees needed
- 102K
Measured across a 2 km radius around الاسكان، العمارة، ميسان محافظة، Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Al ‘Amārah · AQI 114 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Al ‘Amārah's tree count comes to 7,204 trees across 12.53 km² of land, 33 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 102,422 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al ‘Amārah today: AQI 114, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
42.8
PM10
176.0
NO₂
6.0
O₃
84.0
SO₂
3.6
CO
210.0
- 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 Al ‘Amārah's daily AQI at 128 on average, from 84 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 240 on Nov 6.
Where Al ‘Amārah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al ‘Amārah: Critically low
2.3% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.53 km² of land.
Trees in this area
7,204
Target trees
109,626
More trees needed
102,422
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,253 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al ‘Amārah lost?
There was almost no forest around Al ‘Amārah 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 August 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 Al ‘Amārah right now?
The latest reading for Al ‘Amārah shows an AQI of 114 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Al ‘Amārah today?
At AQI 114 (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 Al ‘Amārah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al ‘Amārah's daily AQI at 128 on average, from 84 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 240 on Nov 6. On 5 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al ‘Amārah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al ‘Amārah 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 Al ‘Amārah?
Al ‘Amārah has an estimated 7,204 trees across the 12.53 km² of land measured — 2.3% tree cover, 33 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al ‘Amārah need?
Al ‘Amārah needs roughly 102,422 more trees to close a 33-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 2,253 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al ‘Amārah'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 الاسكان، العمارة، ميسان محافظة، Iraq; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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