City report · Sharqia, Egypt
Fāqūs Air quality today
Air quality in Fāqūs currently reads AQI 58 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 58
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 13.1
- tree cover
- 2.5%
- trees in this area
- 7.9K
- more trees needed
- 86.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Engizah, Ad Daydamoun, Faqous, Al-Sharqia Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Fāqūs · AQI 58 (Moderate)
Fāqūs's tree count comes to 7,854 trees across 12.57 km², 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 86,394 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Fāqūs today: AQI 58, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 14:00 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. 10th of Ramadan City 1 and Obour
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
13.1
PM10
7.0
NO₂
1.1
O₃
90.0
SO₂
1.4
CO
129.0
- 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 Fāqūs's daily AQI at 48 on average, from 29 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 99 on Nov 5.
Where Fāqūs stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Fāqūs: Critically low
2.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
7,854
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
86,394
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,901 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Fāqūs lost?
There was very little forest around Fāqūs in 2000, about 61 hectares, and about 1 hectare of it has been lost 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.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Fāqūs?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good57% · under 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown36% · under 1 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 309 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 318 ha
- Overall change
- +9 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Fāqūs stayed about the same size, at about 318 hectares: new forest grew on about 39 hectares, and about 30 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Fāqūs right now?
The latest reading for Fāqūs shows an AQI of 58 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 14:00 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 Fāqūs today?
At AQI 58 (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 Fāqūs been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Fāqūs's daily AQI at 48 on average, from 29 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 99 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Fāqūs lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Fāqūs in 2000, about 61 hectares, and about 1 hectare of it has been lost 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 Fāqūs stayed about the same size, at about 318 hectares: new forest grew on about 39 hectares, and about 30 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Fāqūs?
Fāqūs has an estimated 7,854 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 2.5% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Fāqūs need?
Fāqūs needs roughly 86,394 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,901 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Fāqūs'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 Engizah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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