City report · Dhi Qar, Iraq
Ash Shaţrah Air quality today
Air quality in Ash Shaţrah currently reads AQI 61 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 61
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 12.3
- tree cover
- 0.8%
- trees in this area
- 2.5K
- more trees needed
- 91.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shatrah, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ash Shaţrah · AQI 61 (Moderate)
Ash Shaţrah's tree count comes to 2,498 trees across 12.49 km² of land, 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 91,184 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ash Shaţrah today: AQI 61, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
12.3
PM10
39.5
NO₂
4.5
O₃
95.0
SO₂
14.4
CO
133.0
- 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 Shaţrah's daily AQI at 105 on average, from 77 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 162 on Nov 10.
Where Ash Shaţrah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ash Shaţrah: Critically low
0.8% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.49 km² of land.
Trees in this area
2,498
Target trees
93,682
More trees needed
91,184
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,006 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ash Shaţrah lost?
There was almost no forest around Ash Shaţrah 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- Air quality
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- As Samawah83.8 km
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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Frequently asked
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Ash Shaţrah right now?
The latest reading for Ash Shaţrah shows an AQI of 61 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Shaţrah today?
At AQI 61 (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 Shaţrah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ash Shaţrah's daily AQI at 105 on average, from 77 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 162 on Nov 10. On 4 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Ash Shaţrah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ash Shaţrah 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 Shaţrah?
Ash Shaţrah has an estimated 2,498 trees across the 12.49 km² of land measured — 0.8% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ash Shaţrah need?
Ash Shaţrah needs roughly 91,184 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,006 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ash Shaţrah'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 Shatrah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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