City report · Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Dera Ismail Khan Air quality today
Air quality in Dera Ismail Khan currently reads AQI 426 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 426
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 288.0
- tree cover
- 9.7%
- trees in this area
- 30.5K
- more trees needed
- 111K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 14, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Dera Ismail Khan · AQI 426 (Hazardous)
Dera Ismail Khan's tree count comes to 30,473 trees across 12.57 km², 35 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 110,898 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Dera Ismail Khan today: AQI 426, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 6 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Jhang and Sargodha
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
288.0
PM10
149.5
NO₂
8.1
O₃
124.0
SO₂
13.1
CO
610.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dera Ismail Khan's daily AQI at 157 on average, from 114 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 271 on Nov 10.
Where Dera Ismail Khan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Dera Ismail Khan: Critically low
9.7% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
30,473
Target trees
141,371
More trees needed
110,898
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,440 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Dera Ismail Khan lost?
There was almost no forest around Dera Ismail Khan 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.
2018: satellite photo from September 2018 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 68 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 162 ha
- Overall change
- +94 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Dera Ismail Khan grew from about 68 hectares to 162 hectares, a net gain of about 94 hectares. New forest grew on about 94 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 Dera Ismail Khan right now?
The latest reading for Dera Ismail Khan shows an AQI of 426 (Hazardous), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Dera Ismail Khan today?
At AQI 426 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Dera Ismail Khan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dera Ismail Khan's daily AQI at 157 on average, from 114 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 271 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Dera Ismail Khan lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Dera Ismail Khan 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 Dera Ismail Khan grew from about 68 hectares to 162 hectares, a net gain of about 94 hectares. New forest grew on about 94 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Dera Ismail Khan?
Dera Ismail Khan has an estimated 30,473 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 9.7% tree cover, 35 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Dera Ismail Khan need?
Dera Ismail Khan needs roughly 110,898 more trees to close a 35-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,440 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Dera Ismail Khan'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 Dera Ismail Khan; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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