City report · Wasit, Iraq
Al-Kut Air quality today
Air quality in Al-Kut currently reads AQI 167 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 167
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 72.4
- tree cover
- 6.4%
- trees in this area
- 18.0K
- more trees needed
- 94.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around الهورة، الكوت، واسط محافظة، 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-Kut · AQI 167 (Unhealthy)
Al-Kut's tree count comes to 17,995 trees across 11.25 km² of land, 34 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 94,474 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al-Kut today: AQI 167, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 185 km, e.g. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
72.4
PM10
50.3
NO₂
10.5
O₃
70.0
SO₂
9.8
CO
287.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al-Kut's daily AQI at 102 on average, from 64 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 160 on Nov 6.
Where Al-Kut stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al-Kut: Critically low
6.4% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.25 km² of land.
Trees in this area
17,995
Target trees
112,469
More trees needed
94,474
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,078 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al-Kut lost?
There was almost no forest around Al-Kut 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 September 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-Kut right now?
The latest reading for Al-Kut shows an AQI of 167 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al-Kut today?
At AQI 167 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear 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-Kut been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al-Kut's daily AQI at 102 on average, from 64 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 160 on Nov 6. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al-Kut lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al-Kut 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-Kut?
Al-Kut has an estimated 17,995 trees across the 11.25 km² of land measured — 6.4% tree cover, 34 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al-Kut need?
Al-Kut needs roughly 94,474 more trees to close a 34-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,078 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al-Kut'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 الهورة، الكوت، واسط محافظة، Iraq; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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