City report · Diyala, Iraq
Baqubah Air quality today
Air quality in Baqubah currently reads AQI 78 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 78
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 25.4
- tree cover
- 17.2%
- trees in this area
- 54.0K
- more trees needed
- 40.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Yarmouk, Baqubah, Diyala Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Baqubah · AQI 78 (Moderate)
Baqubah's tree count comes to 53,981 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 13 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 40,172 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Baqubah today: AQI 78, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 65 km, e.g. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
25.4
PM10
8.3
NO₂
13.2
O₃
66.0
SO₂
38.5
CO
241.0
- 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 Baqubah's daily AQI at 71 on average, from 32 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 142 on Nov 6.
Where Baqubah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Baqubah: Critically low
17.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
53,981
Target trees
94,153
More trees needed
40,172
CO₂ if planted / yr
883.8 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Baqubah lost?
There was almost no forest around Baqubah 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.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 1,280 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,290 ha
- Overall change
- +12 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Baqubah stayed about the same size, at about 1,290 hectares: new forest grew on about 21 hectares, and about 9 hectares were 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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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Baqubah right now?
The latest reading for Baqubah shows an AQI of 78 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 65 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 Baqubah today?
At AQI 78 (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 Baqubah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Baqubah's daily AQI at 71 on average, from 32 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 142 on Nov 6. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Baqubah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Baqubah 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 Baqubah stayed about the same size, at about 1,290 hectares: new forest grew on about 21 hectares, and about 9 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Baqubah?
Baqubah has an estimated 53,981 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 17.2% tree cover, 13 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Baqubah need?
Baqubah needs roughly 40,172 more trees to close a 13-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 883.8 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Baqubah'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 Al Yarmouk; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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