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Mirzāpur Air quality today

Air quality in Mirzāpur currently reads AQI 209 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.

AQI 209

Air quality right now

Very unhealthy

Main pollutant: PM2.5
PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
150.9
tree cover
18.2%
trees in this area
47.1K
more trees needed
69.4K

Measured across a 2 km radius around Paira Tola, Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh 231001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.

Mirzāpur · AQI 209 (Very unhealthy)

Dark green marks tree cover detected inside the study radius.Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search, captured Oct 26, 2026

Mirzāpur's tree count comes to 47,114 trees across 10.36 km² of land, 27 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 69,376 more trees would close the gap.

Air quality detail

Air quality in Mirzāpur today: AQI 209, Very unhealthy

Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:30 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. Varanasi and Mughalsarai Railway Settlement

Health signal

Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.

PM2.5

150.9

PM10

124.8

NO₂

33.8

O₃

78.0

SO₂

23.7

CO

547.0

Outdoor exercise
Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
Windows
Keep them closed
Mask
Wear an N95 if you go out
Air purifier
Run one on high

Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mirzāpur's daily AQI at 182 on average, from 175 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 223 on Nov 6.

Last 7 daysavg 182 · peak 223
Nov 4: AQI 175 (peak 202)Nov 5: AQI 183 (peak 199)Nov 6: AQI 178 (peak 223)Nov 7: AQI 185 (peak 214)Nov 8: AQI 180 (peak 196)Nov 9: AQI 185 (peak 219)Nov 10: AQI 185 (peak 217)
Nov 4Nov 10

This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide

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Tree cover detail

Tree cover in Mirzāpur: Critically low

18.2% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.36 km² of land.

27 points below target

Trees in this area

47,114

Target trees

116,490

More trees needed

69,376

CO₂ if planted / yr

1,526 t

Deforestation · 2001–2025

How much forest has Mirzāpur lost?

There was almost no forest around Mirzāpur 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.

Satellite image of the area around Mirzāpur, March 2017

2017: satellite photo from March 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.

Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020

Forest in 2000
309 ha
Forest in 2020
363 ha
Overall change
+54 hamore forest than in 2000

Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Mirzāpur grew from about 309 hectares to 363 hectares, a net gain of about 54 hectares (+17%). New forest grew on about 55 hectares, while 1 hectare 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 Mirzāpur right now?

The latest reading for Mirzāpur shows an AQI of 209 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.

Is it safe to exercise outside in Mirzāpur today?

At AQI 209 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.

What has the air quality in Mirzāpur been like this week?

Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mirzāpur's daily AQI at 182 on average, from 175 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 223 on Nov 6. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.

Is Mirzāpur's AQI the same as India's AQI (CPCB)?

No. Airleaf shows the US EPA Air Quality Index (AQI), the scale used by IQAir and most air-quality apps. India's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) publishes the National Air Quality Index on its own scale: 0–50 good, 51–100 satisfactory, 101–200 moderate, 201–300 poor, 301–400 very poor and 401–500 severe. The two scales don't line up. At moderate fine-particle levels the US scale reads higher: 55 µg/m³ of PM2.5 is 149 on the US AQI but about 92, "satisfactory", on India's. In heavy smog India's reads higher: 100 µg/m³ is 182 on the US AQI and about 232, "poor", on India's. CPCB also averages particles over 24 hours, so its figure moves more slowly than an hourly reading.

How much forest has the area around Mirzāpur lost since 2001?

There was almost no forest around Mirzāpur 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 Mirzāpur grew from about 309 hectares to 363 hectares, a net gain of about 54 hectares (+17%). New forest grew on about 55 hectares, while 1 hectare were lost.

What is the tree count in Mirzāpur?

Mirzāpur has an estimated 47,114 trees across the 10.36 km² of land measured — 18.2% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.

How many more trees does Mirzāpur need?

Mirzāpur needs roughly 69,376 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 1,526 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.

How are Mirzāpur'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 Paira Tola; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.

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