City report · Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Bannu Air quality today
Air quality in Bannu currently reads AQI 202 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 202
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 129.7
- tree cover
- 14.0%
- trees in this area
- 44.0K
- more trees needed
- 97.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bannu, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 11, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bannu · AQI 202 (Very unhealthy)
Bannu's tree count comes to 43,982 trees across 12.57 km², 31 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 97,389 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bannu today: AQI 202, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 165 km, e.g. Peshawar and Shabqadar
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
129.7
PM10
65.2
NO₂
2.6
O₃
125.0
SO₂
7.3
CO
343.0
- 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 Bannu's daily AQI at 112 on average, from 73 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 210 on Nov 9.
Where Bannu stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Bannu: Critically low
14.0% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
43,982
Target trees
141,371
More trees needed
97,389
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,143 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bannu lost?
There was almost no forest around Bannu 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 June 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 315 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 443 ha
- Overall change
- +128 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Bannu grew from about 315 hectares to 443 hectares, a net gain of about 128 hectares (+41%). New forest grew on about 128 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Bannu right now?
The latest reading for Bannu shows an AQI of 202 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 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 Bannu today?
At AQI 202 (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 Bannu been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bannu's daily AQI at 112 on average, from 73 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 210 on Nov 9. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Bannu lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Bannu 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Bannu grew from about 315 hectares to 443 hectares, a net gain of about 128 hectares (+41%). New forest grew on about 128 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Bannu?
Bannu has an estimated 43,982 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 14.0% tree cover, 31 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bannu need?
Bannu needs roughly 97,389 more trees to close a 31-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,143 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bannu'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 Bannu; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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