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Birnin Kebbi Air quality today
Air quality in Birnin Kebbi currently reads AQI 87 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 87
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 24.6
- tree cover
- 11.1%
- trees in this area
- 34.9K
- more trees needed
- 59.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Birnin Kebbi 860101, Kebbi, Nigeria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 31, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Birnin Kebbi · AQI 87 (Moderate)
Birnin Kebbi's tree count comes to 34,872 trees across 12.57 km², 19 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 59,376 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Birnin Kebbi today: AQI 87, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 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
24.6
PM10
64.0
NO₂
0.8
O₃
105.0
SO₂
0.7
CO
227.0
- 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 Birnin Kebbi's daily AQI at 134 on average, from 97 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 206 on Nov 6.
Where Birnin Kebbi stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Birnin Kebbi: Critically low
11.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
34,872
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
59,376
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,306 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Birnin Kebbi lost?
There was almost no forest around Birnin Kebbi 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 January 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 Birnin Kebbi right now?
The latest reading for Birnin Kebbi shows an AQI of 87 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 16:00 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 Birnin Kebbi today?
At AQI 87 (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 Birnin Kebbi been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Birnin Kebbi's daily AQI at 134 on average, from 97 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 206 on Nov 6. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Birnin Kebbi lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Birnin Kebbi 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 Birnin Kebbi?
Birnin Kebbi has an estimated 34,872 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 11.1% tree cover, 19 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Birnin Kebbi need?
Birnin Kebbi needs roughly 59,376 more trees to close a 19-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,306 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Birnin Kebbi'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 Birnin Kebbi 860101; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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