City report · Iran
Īlām Air quality today
Air quality in Īlām currently reads AQI 157 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 157
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 69.9
- tree cover
- 2.1%
- trees in this area
- 6.6K
- more trees needed
- 119K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bazzar, Ilam, Ilam Province, Iran (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Īlām · AQI 157 (Unhealthy)
Īlām's tree count comes to 6,597 trees across 12.57 km², 38 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 119,066 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Īlām today: AQI 157, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 225 km, e.g. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
69.9
PM10
78.7
NO₂
24.3
O₃
85.0
SO₂
2.7
CO
480.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Īlām's daily AQI at 83 on average, from 72 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 148 on Nov 5.
Where Īlām stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Īlām: Critically low
2.1% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
6,597
Target trees
125,663
More trees needed
119,066
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,619 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Īlām lost?
There was almost no forest around Īlām 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 September 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- 3%
- Air quality
- 57
- Khānaqīn123.7 km
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- 16%
- Air quality
- 152
- Al-Kut137.1 km
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- Tree cover
- 6%
- Air quality
- 167
- Al Miqdādīyah142.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 20%
- Air quality
- 91
- Kelar149.9 km
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- Tree cover
- 5%
- Air quality
- 187
- An Nu‘mānīyah152.6 km
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- Tree cover
- 12%
- Air quality
- 168
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Īlām right now?
The latest reading for Īlām shows an AQI of 157 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 16:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Īlām today?
At AQI 157 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Īlām been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Īlām's daily AQI at 83 on average, from 72 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 148 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 Īlām lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Īlām 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 Īlām?
Īlām has an estimated 6,597 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 2.1% tree cover, 38 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Īlām need?
Īlām needs roughly 119,066 more trees to close a 38-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,619 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Īlām'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 Bazzar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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