City report · Anbar, Iraq
Al Fallūjah Air quality today
Air quality in Al Fallūjah currently reads AQI 58 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 58
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 12.2
- tree cover
- 0.6%
- trees in this area
- 1.9K
- more trees needed
- 92.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Nazzal, Al-Fallujah, Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Al Fallūjah · AQI 58 (Moderate)
Al Fallūjah's tree count comes to 1,885 trees across 12.57 km², 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 92,363 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Fallūjah today: AQI 58, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 02:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 65 km, e.g. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
12.2
PM10
4.6
NO₂
13.8
O₃
37.0
SO₂
3.5
CO
293.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Fallūjah's daily AQI at 59 on average, from 20 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 153 on Nov 7.
Where Al Fallūjah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Fallūjah: Critically low
0.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
1,885
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
92,363
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,032 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Fallūjah lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Fallūjah 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.
2020: satellite photo from August 2020 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Al Fallūjah
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Ramadi45.1 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 56
- Baghdad57.1 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 75
- Al Maḩmūdīyah62.7 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 54
- 73.2 km
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 58
- Al-Musayab78.9 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 17%
- Air quality
- 122
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Frequently asked
Questions about Al Fallūjah
What is the air quality (AQI) in Al Fallūjah right now?
The latest reading for Al Fallūjah shows an AQI of 58 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 02:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Fallūjah today?
At AQI 58 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Al Fallūjah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Fallūjah's daily AQI at 59 on average, from 20 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 153 on Nov 7. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Fallūjah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Fallūjah 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 Fallūjah?
Al Fallūjah has an estimated 1,885 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 0.6% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Fallūjah need?
Al Fallūjah needs roughly 92,363 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,032 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Fallūjah'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 Nazzal; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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