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As Samawah Air quality today
Air quality in As Samawah currently reads AQI 290 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 290
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 167.4
- tree cover
- 12.9%
- trees in this area
- 39.7K
- more trees needed
- 98.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around حي التأميم، السماوة، المثنى 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.
As Samawah · AQI 290 (Very unhealthy)
As Samawah's tree count comes to 39,675 trees across 12.31 km² of land, 32 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 98,727 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in As Samawah today: AQI 290, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
167.4
PM10
215.6
NO₂
5.1
O₃
72.0
SO₂
20.6
CO
137.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put As Samawah's daily AQI at 111 on average, from 93 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 184 on Nov 10.
Where As Samawah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in As Samawah: Critically low
12.9% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.31 km² of land.
Trees in this area
39,675
Target trees
138,402
More trees needed
98,727
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,172 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has As Samawah lost?
There was almost no forest around As Samawah 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
- 168
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in As Samawah right now?
The latest reading for As Samawah shows an AQI of 290 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in As Samawah today?
At AQI 290 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in As Samawah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put As Samawah's daily AQI at 111 on average, from 93 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 184 on Nov 10. On 4 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around As Samawah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around As Samawah 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 As Samawah?
As Samawah has an estimated 39,675 trees across the 12.31 km² of land measured — 12.9% tree cover, 32 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does As Samawah need?
As Samawah needs roughly 98,727 more trees to close a 32-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,172 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are As Samawah'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 حي التأميم، السماوة، المثنى محافظة، Iraq; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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