City report · Benue State, Nigeria
Makurdi Air quality today
Air quality in Makurdi currently reads AQI 79 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 79
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 23.0
- tree cover
- 11.0%
- trees in this area
- 31.4K
- more trees needed
- 54.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Makurdi, 970101, Benue, Nigeria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 20, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Makurdi · AQI 79 (Moderate)
Makurdi's tree count comes to 31,447 trees across 11.44 km² of land, 19 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 54,318 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Makurdi today: AQI 79, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 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. Nsukka and Abuja
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
23.0
PM10
28.1
NO₂
1.1
O₃
101.0
SO₂
1.1
CO
307.0
- 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 Makurdi's daily AQI at 77 on average, from 72 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 99 on Nov 8.
Where Makurdi stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Makurdi: Critically low
11.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.44 km² of land.
Trees in this area
31,447
Target trees
85,765
More trees needed
54,318
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,195 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Makurdi lost?
There was almost no forest around Makurdi 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.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 1,270 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,010 ha
- Overall change
- −261 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Makurdi shrank from about 1,270 hectares to 1,010 hectares, a net loss of about 261 hectares (−21%). New forest grew on about 80 hectares, but 341 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 Makurdi right now?
The latest reading for Makurdi shows an AQI of 79 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 225 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 Makurdi today?
At AQI 79 (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 Makurdi been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Makurdi's daily AQI at 77 on average, from 72 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 99 on Nov 8. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Makurdi lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Makurdi 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 Makurdi shrank from about 1,270 hectares to 1,010 hectares, a net loss of about 261 hectares (−21%). New forest grew on about 80 hectares, but 341 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Makurdi?
Makurdi has an estimated 31,447 trees across the 11.44 km² of land measured — 11.0% tree cover, 19 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Makurdi need?
Makurdi needs roughly 54,318 more trees to close a 19-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,195 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Makurdi'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 Makurdi; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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