City report · Salah ad Din, Iraq
Ash Sharqāt Air quality today
Air quality in Ash Sharqāt currently reads AQI 51 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 51
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 7.9
- tree cover
- 1.9%
- trees in this area
- 5.9K
- more trees needed
- 87.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around التل، الشرقاط، صلاح الدين 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.
Ash Sharqāt · AQI 51 (Moderate)
Ash Sharqāt's tree count comes to 5,921 trees across 12.47 km² of land, 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 87,573 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ash Sharqāt today: AQI 51, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Sulaymaniyah and Silopi
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
7.9
PM10
3.4
NO₂
1.4
O₃
66.0
SO₂
3.2
CO
159.0
- 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 Ash Sharqāt's daily AQI at 50 on average, from 15 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 96 on Nov 6.
Where Ash Sharqāt stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ash Sharqāt: Critically low
1.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.47 km² of land.
Trees in this area
5,921
Target trees
93,494
More trees needed
87,573
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,927 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ash Sharqāt lost?
There was almost no forest around Ash Sharqāt 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 Ash Sharqāt right now?
The latest reading for Ash Sharqāt shows an AQI of 51 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 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 Ash Sharqāt today?
At AQI 51 (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 Ash Sharqāt been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ash Sharqāt's daily AQI at 50 on average, from 15 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 96 on Nov 6. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Ash Sharqāt lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ash Sharqāt 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 Ash Sharqāt?
Ash Sharqāt has an estimated 5,921 trees across the 12.47 km² of land measured — 1.9% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ash Sharqāt need?
Ash Sharqāt needs roughly 87,573 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,927 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ash Sharqāt'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 التل، الشرقاط، صلاح الدين محافظة، Iraq; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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